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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 204

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  1. Names of mixed Modes.
  2. have as lietle union in chemselres, as sereral other, to wtich the Nind
  3. sires a connexion that combines them into one Ldea; ret they arc al
  4. ays mado for the convenience ot Communication, irtrich is the chiet
  5. end ot Languase. The Vsc oF Languose is, by Mort Sounds to lignitie
  6. rich ease and disparch general Conceptions; Wherein not only abundance
  7. oF particulars may be contained, but also a great varietr of independent
  8. Ideas, collected into one complex one. In the makrine theretore ol thC
  9. Species of mixed Hodes, Men have had regard onty eo such Combina.
  10. tions, as they had occalion to mention one to another. Those ther have
  11. combined into distinet complex Ideas, and siren names to; Whillt others,
  12. that in Nature have as near an union, are lett loole and unresarded. For
  13. tog0no Farther than humane Actions chemselres, il they vould make
  14. distinct abstract ideas, ot all the Varieties might be observed in them,
  15. the Number must be infinite, and thoMemorr contounded with the Plen-
  16. eY, a5 vell asovercharsed to licile purpose. Ie lustices, thar Nen make
  17. andname somanr complex Ideas of these mixed Modes, as they sind
  18. ther hare occasion tohave names FOr, in the ordinary occurrence ot their
  19. AairS. IFthey join to the sdea of Rillins, the Idea OF Father, OF MO-
  20. ther, and somake a distinct Species rom hillins a Mans Son, or Neist.
  21. Bour, it is because of the distinct punictiment, the one deserres different
  22. Trom the other, Murther; and theresOre theY find it necessary tO mention
  23. it by a distinct name, irhrich is the end of matins that dictinct Combina-
  24. tion. But though the Ideas ofMocher and Daughrer, are (0 difterenty
  25. treated, in relerence ro the Ldea oF Killing, that the one is joined wich it,
  26. 10 malse a distinst abstraet Idea wich a name, and (0 2 distinet Species,
  27. and the ocher nor; vet in respect ofcarnal Knowledse, ther are both ra-
  28. Hen in under Incest; and that Rill For the lame Convenience OF CxpreCTING
  29. under onename, and reckonins olone Species, such unelean mixtures, as
  30. have a peculiar turpitude berond otters; and chis ro avoid Circumlocu
  31. tions, and tedious Delcriptions.
  32. 5. 8. A moderate still in different Languares, Will casily latissie onc oF
  33. the truth ofthis, it beine soobvious to observe great Aore OFWords in one
  34. Tancuage, which have not any that ansiver them in another. Whieh plain-
  35. Iy es, that thole of one Counery, by their Customs and manner of
  36. Fise, have found occasion to makre several complex Ldeas, and sire names
  37. tothem, Which ochers never collected into specitick Ldeas. This could
  38. not have happened, il chese Species ivere the Aeads Workmanctrip oF Na-
  39. cure; and nor Collections made and abstracted by the Mind, in order to
  40. namine, and for the convenience oF Communication. The terms OF our
  41. LaW, erhich are not emper Sonnds, will hardly find N ords thac ansiver
  42. them in thespanistr, orItalian, no scanty Languages; much lels, I thinte,
  43. could any one translate them into the Caribec, or Westoe Tongues: And
  44. the Versura oF the Romans. Or Corban ot the feus, have no Words in
  45. Other Languases to ansiver them: Thereason irhereot is plain, trom
  46. Wrhat has Been said. Nay, il e ill lool a little more nearly into this
  47. matter, and exactly compare different Languases, Wre Mall find, that
  48. thoush they have Words, wtrich in Franclations and Dictionaries, are
  49. suxpoled to ansiver one another; yet there is scarce onc of ten, amongst
  50. the names ot complex Ideas, especially ot mixed Modes, that Sands tor
  51. the same precise Pdea, Which the Word does that in Dictionaries it is ren
  52. dred By. There are no Ideas more common, and lels compounded, than
  53. the Meatures oF Time, Fxtension, and Weighe, and the Latin names
  54. FTora, Pes, Libra, are, witheut difficulty, rendred by the Fnglist names,
  55. lour, F00t acd P oand: Buc y et chere is nochinss more criden, chanchat
  56. Bc

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 204. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0220?run=74