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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 195

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  1. Generat LC
  2. Species. Fistrue, there is ordinarily suppolec a real Constitution OF th
  3. Torts et Things; and Eis past doube, there mur de lome real Constitu.
  4. tion, on rhich any Collection ot simple Ideas co existins, must depend
  5. Buc il beino evident, that Thinos are ranked under Narmes into lorts or
  6. Species, only as ther acree ro certain abstract Ldeas, to Which ve have
  7. annexec those NameS, the Fsence oF cach Oenus, Or SOrt, comes to bC nO-
  8. chins buc chat abstract Idea, Which the Genexal, Ox Sortal (iF F may havo
  9. leave sorocall. it from Sorr, as I do General From Genus,) Name Cands FOr.
  10. And ehis e PBaII And to bethat, which the Word Fssence imports, in its
  11. most familiar nsc. These ero Torts oP Fsence, Isuppose, mar noc unsitly
  12. De tered, the one thC Real, che orher the Nominal Fserce.
  13. 5. 16. Berueen the Nominal Fssence, and the Name, there is lo near a
  14. Connexion that theName ot an Port ot Fhinss cannor be attribured eo
  15. any particular Being, but what has this FPenco, Whereby ic anIIVerS FMaE
  16. abstract Idea WhrereoF chat Name is the Sign.
  17. 6. 27. Concerning the real Fssences ot corporeal Substances, (to men-
  18. Tion those onIV,) There are, it I mistalee noc, two Opinions. The one is
  19. oF thole, Who ulins thC Word FssencO, For ther BnO noc itrat,
  20. suppose a certainnumber of those Flsences, accordins towhich, aI natural
  21. chinssare made, and wherein they do exactly erery one ol them partalic.
  22. and (o become oF this or that Species. The ocher, and more rational
  23. Opinion, is oF thole, utro look on all natural Thines to have a real, but
  24. untenown Consticution ot their insensible Parts, Trom which Row chole
  25. sensible Oualities, Which serve us to distinguistr them one trom another
  26. accordins as ve have Occasion torarke them into lorrs, under common
  27. Denominations. The Former ot these Opinions, Wtich suppoles these
  28. Fssences, as a certain number oF Forms or Molds, Wherein aIl natural
  29. Things, that exist, are cast, and do equallr partatie, has, limagine, very
  30. mucli perplexed thie Rnomledse of natural Things. Fhe Frequent Pro-
  31. ductions ofMonsters, in all the Species os Animals, and or Chanselinos.
  32. and other Rranse Issues oF humane Bireh, carry wich them Difficulties,
  33. not postible to conlst ith this sypothesis: Since it is impoltible, that Livo
  34. Things, parralins exacty of the lame real Fssence, Mould have different
  35. Properries, as that oFigures partalins in the samereal F. Ssence oF a Cirele.
  36. Thould have difterent Proverties. Bur ere thereno ocherkicason againstit, yet
  37. the supposition of Fsences, that cannot be tenouniand y et thre makino them 10
  38. be that, Which distinguistres the Species of Thinss, is (o wholly useless, and
  39. unserviceable to any part ot cur Rnorledoe, thar thar alone ivere suf
  40. cient, tomate us lay it by; and content our selves with luch FPences OF
  41. FHC SOrES Or SpecIeS OF THinOS, as come wichin the reacH OF Our RNOW-
  42. ledse: Wtrich, Wrhren seriousts considered, rill be Found, as Phave laid.
  43. to Be nothins elle, but thole abstract complex Ideas, to wtrich wve have
  44. annexed distinet general Names.
  45. 5. 18. Fsences thus distinguistred into Nominal and Real, We may ob.
  46. Terre, chat in the Species oF simple Idcas and Modes, they are alvays the
  47. same: But in Substances, alvays quite different. Fhus a Figure includine
  48. a Space Betreen three Lines, is the real, as well as nominal Essence ot a
  49. Trianole; it beino noc only the abstract Idea to vrtrich the general Name
  50. is annexed, but theverr Fssentia. Or Beins, ot the chincit Celt char Founda-
  51. eion trom Which alLits Properties Ror, and to which ther are all inseparably
  52. annexed. BuF ir is tar ocherwise concernino that parcel oF Matter, Which
  53. malies che Rins on my Finger, rherein thele tro Kssences are apparentty
  54. different. For it is the real Constiturion oE its insensible Parts, On Which
  55. depend all those Properries of Colour, Weisht, Fulibilits, Fixedness, (5c.
  56. eotrietu

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 195. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0211?run=74