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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 191

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  1. Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
  2. cireumstances oE Fime, or Dlace, Or any other Ideas tha may determiti
  3. eliem tothis or chat particular Exiltence. By this ay ot abstraction,
  4. cher are made capable ot reprelentins more Individuals than one; cach
  5. oFirhich, haviris in it a contormits eo chat abstract Idea, iS (a5 We call ic)
  6. OF thaF FOTE.
  7. S. Z But Eo deduce chis a licele more distinctir, ic will noc, pertraps,
  8. beamits, to trace our Nocions, and Names, From their beginnino, and ob-
  9. serve by rhac deorees we proceed, and by irhat stepsre enlaroe oux Ideas
  10. froin our first intaner. There is nothino more evident, than FBAE FMC
  11. Ideas oFthe Persons Children converse wieh, (to instance in them alone,)
  12. are like rhe Persons themselres, only particular. The Ideas ofthe NurIO,
  13. and the Mother, are vell Pramed in their Minds; and, litre Dictures ot
  14. them etiere, represent onty chole Indiriduals. The Names ther Arct sire
  15. tothem, are consmed to chese Individuals; and the names ot Darse, ane
  16. Mamma, the Child ules, determine chemselres to those PerIOnS. AIFer-
  17. vards, When rime and a larger acquaintance, has made them oblerve,
  18. that chere ore a great mans ocher Things in the Worid, chac in lome com
  19. mon agreements oF Strape, and several ocher Oualities, resemble their Fa-
  20. ther and Nocher: and those Persons ther have been uled to, they frame
  21. an Idea Which cher find chose manr Particulars do partakre in: and 18
  22. that ther sive, with others, the name Man, POr example. And thuS
  23. ther come to have a generat Name, and a general Ldea. Wherein they matee
  24. nothina ne, but only leave out of the complex Ldea they had ot Peter
  25. and Fames, Mary and Fane, that Wrhich is peculiar to cacti, and retain
  26. ouly hac is common co them all.
  27. 5. 8. By che lame WaY thaE ther eome by the general Name and Idea
  28. et Ntan. ther eaCi advance to more ceneral Names and Notions. For ob-
  29. Tervine, thar several Things that differ trom their idea oF Man, aud can-
  30. not thicretore be comprehended under hat Name, hare vet cerrain Oua
  31. licies, Wherein they agrec wich Man, by retainins only thole Dualities.
  32. and unitins chem into one Idea, they hare again another and a more sene
  33. ral Ldea; to which having siven a Name, ther matie a term ol a more
  34. comprehensive extention: Which nem Idea, is made not by any new ad-
  35. dition, buc ontr, as betore, by leavins out the Cape, and lome ocher
  36. Propercies sionitied br the name Man, and retainins orly a B0dY, wictu
  37. Tile, sense, and spontaneous Morion, comprehended under che natE
  38. Animal.
  39. 5. 9. That chis is che way whereby Men first formed ceneral Edeas, and
  40. general Names tothem, Trhink, isB evident, that chere necds no orter
  41. ProoFoFit, but the considerins of aMarS seIF, or others, and the ordina-
  42. er proceedinos oEtheir Minds in Rnomledse: And he thac chintes general
  43. Natures, Or Notions, are any thing else bur such abstrast and parrial Ideas
  44. oF more complex ones, catsen at srst Prom particular Exiltences, will, l
  45. Fear, De at a lols irhere tofind chem. For let any onc restect, Wherein
  46. does his Ldea oFa Nan, difter trom chat ot Peter, and Paul; Or his Idea
  47. otan ETorle, trom that ot Bucephalus, bur in the learins oue somethins
  48. chax is peculiar to cach Indiridual; and retainins (0 muctr ot thole parti-
  49. cular complex Ideas, of several particular fixistences, as ther are Pound 10
  50. agrec in. OEthe complex Ideas, signitied by thenames Man, and Llorse
  51. leavins out but chose particulars irherein ther ditter, and retaining onlr
  52. those Wherein thez acree, and ot those, maline a new distinct complex
  53. Idea, and sivins the namme animal toic, one has a more general terim,
  54. that comprehends, rieh Man, several other Creatures. Leave out the
  55. Idea oE Animal, Sense, and spontaneous Morion, and the remainins cor-
  56. PlCd

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 191. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0207?run=74