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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 194

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  1. venerat le
  2. And when general Names have ans connexion rich particular Beings.
  3. chele abstraet Ideas are the Medium that unites them: P0 that the FIIen-
  4. ces oE Species, as distinguistred and denominated by us, neitlier are, nor
  5. can be any thing buc those precise abstract Ideas ve tave in our MincS.
  6. And therelorethe supposed real Assences of Subltances, il disterent Trom
  7. our abstract Ldeas, cannot be tho fistences of ihe Species e ranki Thinss
  8. into. For trro Species may beone, as rationallr, as two ditterent L ssen-
  9. ces, De the Fssence oFone Species: And I demand, irhat are the alterations
  10. may, ormay noc bemade in a Hlorse, or L ead, Without malsins cither ot
  11. ehemto be olanother species: By determinins che species ot Thinos,
  12. by our abstract Ideas, this is casie to resolve: but il any one WilI resu-
  13. late hisels herein, by suppoled real Psences, he WwilI, I suppole, bc at 2
  14. lols: avd he wrill never beable to knom when ans chins precisels ceales
  15. tobe otthe Species ot an Hlorle, or Lead.
  16. 5. 24. Nor Willany one monder, that I Pay thele Fssences, or abstract
  17. Ideas, Certrich are the meatures of Names, and theboundaries ot Species,)
  18. are the Wortmansbix of the Onderstandins, Who considers, that at least ehie
  19. complex ones are olten, in several Men, ditterent Collections of simple
  20. Ideas: and cheretore that is Covcrousness Eo one Man, Which iS NOL (O E0
  21. another. Naz, even in Substances, ihere their abstract Idens leem eo be
  22. catren trom the Thines chemselves, thes are not constantr the same;
  23. nonot in that Species, which is most lamiliar to us, and with wtrich ve
  24. hare the most intimate acquaintance: Ic havins been more than oncc
  25. doubred, hether the Faetus boru ota Woman, Were a Man, cvenso lar, a5
  26. tnat it hath been debated, Whether it Were, ex vvere not tobe nourillied
  27. and baptized: Wtich could not be, is the abstract Idea, or Fi sence, to which
  28. che name Man belonsed, vere ot Nacures mattins; andvere notthe uncer-
  29. cain and various Collection oF simple Ideas, Wrhich the Onderstandine
  30. Duts together; and then abstractins it, altixed a name roir. So that in
  31. erutt every distinct abstract Idea, is a distinet P. Pence: and the names
  32. that stand for such distinet Ideas, are the names ol Thinss essentially dif
  33. Ferent. Thus a Circle is as essentially difterent trom an Oval, as a Slicep
  34. from a Croat: and Rain is as elsentially different trom SnoW, 25 W ater
  35. From Farth; that abstract Idea wrhich is the Fllence oF one, beine im-
  36. polliblerobe communicated to the ocher. And thusans eroabatraet Ideas,
  37. that in any part vary onetrom anorher, with tmo distinet names annez
  38. ed to them, constiture tro distinct lorts, or, il rou pleale, Spccies, as el.
  39. sentiallu ditterent, 25 ans cro che molt remore, or oppolie iri the
  40. Worid.
  41. 5. E5. BuESinCCthe FNenCeS OP Things are thougHE, By some, (and
  42. not without realon,) eo benholly unbenown; ic mas not beamils to con-
  43. Tider the several sirnifications of the word P Pence.
  44. First, Flsence may be ratcen for the very beins ot any thins, Wherebr
  45. it is, Whar it is. And thus the real internat, but generallr in Substances,
  46. untenorrn Constiturion ol Things, Wrhereon their discoverable Oualities
  47. depend, mar be called cheir Flence. This is cho proper original signiti-
  48. cation ofthe Nord, as is evident trom the formation ot it; Pssentia, In IES
  49. primary nocation sgnitrins properiy Being. And in chis sense it is stilI
  50. ulcd, uten ne speati ol the Esence oE parcicular chinsS, Wilhout sIrinS
  51. them any Name.
  52. Secondly TheTearnins and Disputes oF the SchooIs, havins Been much
  53. Dusied about cenus and species, the WVord Flenee has almost lost its pri-
  54. mmary Signitication; and inllead ot the real Consticurion oF chinss, Mas
  55. beer alos irholis applied r0 che arciticial Constiturion ol Genus anel
  56. Species,

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 194. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0210?run=74