Leibniz Legible

Machine transcription of the Leibniz Nachlass

Search the Nachlass

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 186

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.91.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

  1. Nords or Languare in general.
  2. Book fiI.
  3. to have had cheir Arst rise froin serisible Ideas. By trhich we may sive
  4. Iome kind oF guels, What kind of Notions they ere, and whence deri-
  5. ved, irtrich filled their Minds, irho trere the Art Beginriers ot Lanoua-
  6. ses; and ho Nacure, even in the namins of Thinss, unavares suogested
  7. eomen cheOriginals and Principles ol all their Rnomledse: Whilst, 1o
  8. sive Names, that mistu mate lnomn to others ary Operations ther fele
  9. in themselres, or any other Ideas, that came nor under their senles,
  10. elier vere tain eo borroir Words trom ordinars hnoon Ideas ol senlation,
  11. DY that means to matre ottiers the more casilr to conceive thole Operari
  12. onsther experimented in chemselres, irhich made no outrard sensible
  13. appearances; and then when they had sot kirorn and aorced Names, to
  14. Cignitie thole internal Operations of their omn Minds, they ere suffi-
  15. ciently furnisted tomake Lnown Dy Words, ail their ottier Ideas; since
  16. they could consist ot nothing. bur cicher ol outard sensible Perceptions,
  17. Or oFthe invard Operations ot their Minds about them; We taving, as
  18. has been proved, no Ideas at all, but ihat orisinaily come cither trom
  19. sensible Objects Withour, or irhat escel within our selves, trom the in-
  20. ard Wortinss os our omn Spirits, Which we are conscious io our selves ot
  21. Wvichin.
  22. 5. 6. Bur to understand betrer the ule and Force of Language, as suB-
  23. serrient eo Instruction and Hnomledse, ic rill be convenient to con-
  24. lider,
  25. First, L0 what it is that Names, in the use of Languace, are immediate
  26. ly applied.
  27. Seconaly, Since aII (CXCEPE PFOPer) Names are general, and (0 ctand
  28. noc particularly For chis or that sinsle Thins; but for Porrs and rantes of
  29. Thines,it rill be necessari to consider inthonext place, whiat tho Sorrs and
  30. Rinds, Or, if vou rather likre the Latin Names, what the species and Ge-
  31. nera of Thines are, Wherein thes consist, and hor ther come tobe made.
  32. Thesebeing (asther oughe) roil looked into, we Mail the better come to
  33. ind the risht ule oF Nords; the natural Adrantages and Defects ot l’an-
  34. gitage; and the remedies that oughe to be uled, to aroid the inconveni
  35. encies os obseurity or uncertaint in the signification of Words: without
  36. Wtrich, it is impossible to discourse ith any clearness, or order, Concer-
  37. nins Knomledee: Which beins conversant about Propolitions; and thole
  38. molt commonty univerlal ones, has grearer connexion with Words, than
  39. pertraps is suspected.
  40. These Considerarions cheretore, Mall he che marter ot che sollorine
  41. ChaPTEKS.
  42. AAF

Cite

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 186. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0202?run=74