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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 205

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  1. Names of mixed NTodes.
  2. Ehie Ideas a Roman annexed eo thele Larin Naimes, vere very Par differen
  3. Trom etole wrhicl an Finclish. man expresses by those Enslisti ones. And
  4. il cither oE thele Bould malie ule of the mealures, that those ot the other
  5. Tanguase delign d by their names, he ould De quire out in his account.
  6. Thele ore r0o sensible proots to be doubred; and ire Mall find this mucla
  7. more (o, in the names oFmore abstract and compounded Ldeas; TueM a5
  8. arethe greatest pare ol thole which male up Moral Discourses: Whole
  9. Names, When Men come curiousty to compare, with those they are
  10. transtated ineo, in other Languases, they will find very feir ot them ex
  11. aetly to correspond in the whole extent of cheir Sisnisications.
  12. d. 9. Thereason why P rakce (o parricular notice of this, is, that ve may
  13. noc be mistatten about cenera, and Species, and Essences, as il ther
  14. nere Thinssresulariy and constancly made by Nature, and had a real
  15. Existence in Things; Wrhren cher appear, upon a more wars surver, tobe
  16. nothins else bui an Arrifice ot the Onderstanding, For the easier tionify
  17. ins such Collections oF Ideas, as it Bould otten have occation to commu-
  18. Dicate br one general term; under nrhich, divers particulars, as tar sorth
  19. 25 they acreed to that abstract Idea, mishe be comprehended. And iF
  20. che doubttul Cignitication of che mord species, may make it lound hariti
  21. 10lome, that lCay, thac the Species of mixed Modes are made by the
  22. Onderstandins; vet, Ichink, ic can by no body be denied, chat tis
  23. the Bind makces those abstrast complex sdeas, to Wrhich specisick names
  24. are giren. And is it be true, as it is, that theMind makres thele Patterns:
  25. for Corting and namins of Thines, I lcare it to be considered, Who mates
  26. ehie Boundaries ofthe Sort, or Species; since with me, Species and Sorr
  27. have no ocher difterence, thanthat of a Larin and Enslimi Ldiom.
  28. 6. 20. The near relarion thac there is between Species, Fssences; and
  29. their reneral Names, at least in mixed Modes, will Farther appear, wrtren
  30. we consider, that it is the Name that seems to preserre those Esences,
  31. andsire them cheir lastins duration. For the connexion betreen the
  32. loole parts oEthole complex Ideas, beins made by the Mind, this union,
  33. erhich has no particular foundation in Nature, vould ceale again, ere
  34. chere not Comethine that did, as it vere, hold it together, and lccp chC
  35. pares rom scattering. Thoush theresore it be the Mind thar inatces the
  36. Collection, tis the Name rrhich is, as it vere, the Rnor, that ties them
  37. Fast together. What a vast varieis ot different. Fdeas, does the ord
  38. Triumphus hold together, and deliver to us as one Species Fladthis Namo
  39. Deennever made, or quite iost, We mioht, no doube, have had descripri-
  40. ons oF wrhat passed in that Solemnier: bur vet, I chintE, that which holds
  41. thole difterent parts together, in theuniry oE one complex Idea, is that
  42. very ord annexed toic: Wwichout which, the several pares ol chat, vonld
  43. no more be thoughe to matce one thins, than any other the, Which
  44. havine never been made but once, had never been united into one com
  45. plex Idea under one denomination. TNow much cheretore, in mixed
  46. Nodes, theVniry necestary ro ans Ellence, depends on theMind; and
  47. tion much the continuation and Exine ot thar Vniey, depends on the
  48. Name in common use annexed to it, I leave to De considered by thole
  49. Wvtro loo upon Fssences and species, as real ctablisted Things in
  50. Nature.
  51. 8. FF. Suitable tothis, We find, that Men speatine of mixed Modes, sel
  52. dom iriasine or take any other for species of them, but such as are (et out
  53. by Vames: Becaule they beins ol Mans maltins only, in order t0 na
  54. mino, no sueh Species are taken notice oF, or supposed to be, unless a
  55. Niame be joined 1o it, as che sien oEMans havins combined into Onc
  56. Ideo

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 205. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0221?run=74