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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 193

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  1. Generat T.
  2. ArC(eE UB, dS EHIC RCPTCICHEAEIVeS OF many particular Fhings: bue niverla
  3. lier belonos not to Thinos chemselves, irtich are all osehem particular ir
  4. their Fxistence, even those WVords, and Ideas, Wrhich in cheir signification.
  5. are general. When theretore e quit Parriculars, the Generals thatrest,
  6. are onlr Creatures oFour omnmatins, their general Nature being nothino
  7. but thecapacity ther are put into by che Onderstandins, ol signitying or
  8. reprelentins mans parriculars. Forthe signification thez have, is nothins
  9. but a relation, that by the Mlind ot Blan is added tothem.
  10. 5. F2. The next ching cheresore to be considered is, What teind of seni-
  11. fication it is, that general Words have. For as ie is evidene, that they do
  12. not lignitie Darelz one particular thins; For theri they vould nOt Be DC
  13. neral Terms, but proper Names: So on the octier side, tis as evident,
  14. they do noc signitie a pluralitr; For Nan and Men vould chen signitie
  15. the same; and the distinetion oF numberS (aS CTrAIIarianS CaII FheM)
  16. rouldbe superduous and ulelels. Fhat then which general Nords signi-
  17. AC, is a FOrF OF Things; and thar cach of them does, by being a sign OF
  18. an abstract Idea inthe Mind, to which Idea, as Phines existing are tound
  19. to aereo, sother come to be ranked under that name; or, Wtich is aII
  20. one, be OF ThaL LONE. Whereby it is evident, that the Fsences of the soris
  21. or (ilthe Larin rord pleales Better) Species oF Thinss, are nochins else
  22. but these abstract Edeas. For the having the Fssence of any species, BC-
  23. ing that which makces ariy Fhing tobe ot that species, and the con-
  24. formity to the idea, to Which the name is annexed, being that
  25. ertrichi gives a righe to that name, ehe havins the Fsence, and the ha-
  26. vinsthac Contormier, must necds be the lame chins: Since to be ol any
  27. Species, and to have a righero the name of chat Species, is all one.
  28. AS For examplO, to bC a MVan, Or OF the Species Man, and to have a rixhe
  29. to the name Man, is the lame thing. Again, tobe a Man, Or ol the
  30. Species Man, and have che Fsence ol a Man, is the same thing. NOW
  31. since nothins can De a Man, Or have a right to the name Man, but What
  32. has a contormitr eo the abstraet Fdea the name Man Aands For; nor ani
  33. thino bea Man- Or have arighe to be of tho Species Man, but What has che
  34. Fsence oF that Species, ic tollors, that the Absract Idea, for Whicli the
  35. name Aands, and the FSence ofthe Species, is one and the larre. Frori
  36. erhence it is calieto observe, chat tho ellences oF the Pores ofthings, and con-
  37. sequenty the Corring oP Things,isthe Wortemanchip of the Understandins.
  38. lince itis theonderstandino chat abstracts and matres thole general Ideas.
  39. 6. 13. Twouldnothere De chouxhetotorget, much lels to denr, chat.
  40. Nature, in che production oE Thinrs, malces several of chem alike: there
  41. is nothine more obrious, especially in the Races of Animmals, and aII
  42. Fhines propagated by Sccd. But vet, Pthink, e may lay, the sortine
  43. ofthemunder Names, is the Wortmanstrip of the Onderstandine, takine
  44. occasion from the similitude it oblerres amonost them, tomalse abstract sc-
  45. neral Ideas, and set them ux in the Mind, with Names annexed tothem,
  46. a5 Pacterris, or Formms, (For in that sense the word Form has a very pro-
  47. per signification,) t0 which, as particular Thinss existins, are tound to
  48. aoree: Sothes come to De oFthat Species, have that Denomination, or
  49. are pur intothat classis. For wrhen we (aY, this is a Man, tMat a Torse:
  50. ehis fustice, that Crueltr; this a Warch, thac a Fack; What do we else buF
  51. ranke Things under different spcciticke Names, as aereeine to thiole abstraet
  52. Ideas, Ot hichre have made those Names the signS: And What are thc
  53. Fissences oFthose Species, set out and marted by Names, but these ab
  54. Aract Laleas in. Fhe Mind; Whick aro, a5 it vere, the bonds BetWCen par-
  55. ricular Fhines that exist, and che Names they are to be ranteed under:
  56. ANC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 193. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0209?run=74