An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 201

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1. Names of simple Ideas.
2. served in Snoir, or Milte, ill nor be apt to milapels chat Word, as lono
3. 25 he retairis that idea; wrhrich irhen he has quire lost, he is not apt t0
4. mistahe the meanine ot it, but perceires he understands it not. There is
5. neither a mulciplicits ol limple Ideas to be put rogether, Whieh malces
6. ihe doubetulnels in the Names of mixed Nodes; nor a supposed, buE au
7. untenomn real Fssence, With Proverties dependins chereon, the precilé
8. number Whereot, are allo untenomn, wrhich males the disficuley in the
9. Names oE Substances. Buc on the contrari, in simple Ideas the whole
10. sgnilication of the Name is lnon at once, and consilts nOt oF parts
11. Whereot more or lels beins pur in, the Idea mas be varied, and (0 ché
12. Tignitication oFies Name, De obleure, or uncertuin.
13. 6. 76. Fischly, This Carrter tray be observec, concerrins simple Ideas;
14. and cheir Names, that they have tut feu Ascents in linea praedicamentali,
15. (a5 FHey call it,) from the lovest Species, +o the summum Genus. Tsje
16. realon Wrhereofis, that the lowest Species beins, but one simple Idea, no-
17. thine cari be lett out oFit, that (o the difference beine talen awaz, it may
18. aeree ith some orter thing in onc common to them boch; Wrhichi havine
19. one Naime, is the Genus of the ochertWro: 2. 8. Fhere is nothins can be
20. lelE out oF the sdea oF White and Red, to malse them aeree in one com-
21. mon appeararice, and so have onc seneral name; as Rationality beins
22. lest oucot the corriplex Idea oF Man, makes it agree with Brure, in the
23. more general Idea and narrie oF Animal. And theresore erhen to avoid
24. ipleasant enumerations, Den rould comprehend boch WWhite and Red,
25. arel several ocher such simple Ideas, under one sereral name, ther have
26. been Fain to do it by a Nord, Whichdenotes onty the way they set into
27. themind. For When Whire, Red, and Tellou, are all comprehended un
28. der thie Genus orname Colour, ic signitles no more, but suen Ideas, aS are
29. producedin the Mind only by the Sighe, and have entrance onty chrouot
30. elic Ryes. And When chermould trame vet a more general term, to com
31. pretienid boch Colours and Sonnas, and the like simple Ideas, ther do itbu
32. a Word, that signities aII such as come into the Mind only by one sense:
33. And (0 the general term Duality, in its ordinary acception, comprehends
34. Colours, Sounds, Fastes, Smells, and tangible Oualities, With distinction
35. trom Extension, Number, Motion, Plcasure, and Pain, wtrich mate im-
36. prections on cheMind, and incroduce cheir Ideas by more senles chani
37. Onc.
38. 6. 27. Sixtbly, TheNames oE simple Ideas, Substances, and mixed
39. Modes, tiare alsothis difference; That thole of mixed Modes carid for
40. Ideas perfectls arbitrary: Those of Substances, are not perfectir (0; but
41. refer to a partern, though ith some latitude: and those of simple Ideas
42. are perlectly taben tram the existence os Things, arid are not arbitrary qt
43. all. Which What disterence it males in the sierifications ot cheir Names,
44. e Mall sec in che Follorins Chapters.
45. The Names ol smple Modes, disser lirle srom chose oE simple Ideas.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 201. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0217?run=74