An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 208
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The machine reads it as
- Names of Substances.
- Lomprehended under thole mords, with which chez are (0 armed at all
- points, and with whichther so contulenely lay about them. I MalL imo-
- sine Phare done lome Service ro Truth, Peace, and Learnins, it, by any
- enlargement on this Subject, I con make Nen reflect on their omn Vic
- ot Languase; and sive them realon to suspect, thac lince iE is trequene
- For others, it may allo be possible Tor them, to have lometimes very qood
- and approved Words in cheir Mouths, and Writines, wich very uncertain,
- lictle, or no signitication. And theretore it is not unreasonable Por them
- eobe arr herein cheriselres, and noc eo be unwilling to have them exa-
- mined by others. Wich chis desion cheretore, I Mall 80 onwith WHaEI
- have Farther to lay, concernins chis matter.
- Of the Names of Substances:
- 5. T.
- Tse common Names of Substances, as Well as otter serierat
- Terms, stand for Sorrs: Which is nothins else but thebeins
- madle sions of luch complex Ideas, Wherein several particular Substances
- do, or might aoree, by virtue oF which, ther are capable to be com-
- prehended in one common Conception, and be signitied by one Name:
- PCay, do or wislt aeree: For thoush chere be bur one sun existins in
- ehe Worid, et the Idea ot it beins abstracted, (0 as that more substances
- (il there ivere several) mighe cach apree in it; it is as much a Sort, a5 jf
- there rrere as mans Suns; a5 there are Stars. They rant noc their Rea-
- Pons, utro thinse chere are, and that cach Axed Star, vould ansver the
- Idea the name sun Cands For, to one wrhro rvere placed in a due diltance.
- Wrhich, by che war, mas Mer us hor much the Sorts, or, il vou pleale,
- Genera and Species oF Fhings (For those Larin terms signitie 10 me, no
- more thanthe Enslimtr word Sort) depend on such Collections ot Ideas
- a5 Men have made; and nor on che real Nacure of Fhinos: since tis not
- impossible, buc that in proprietr of Speech, that mishe be a Sun toonc,
- Which is a Star tO another.
- 8. 2. The measure are boundary of cach Sore, or Species, Whereby it
- is conscitured chat particular Sorr, and distinguistied trom others, is that
- We call ies Fssence, Wrhich is nochins Dur that abstract Idea; to ubich ihe
- Name is annexed: 50 thac erery thins contained in that Idea, is elsentiat
- Fothat Sort. This, though it be all the Ksence oE natural Subltances,
- that we leno, or by wrhich re distinsuist them into Sorts; vet Icall ic
- by a Deculior name, the nominat Pssence, to distinguistr ic From chat real
- Consticurion ot substances, upon which depends this nominal Essence,
- and all the Properties oE chat Sore; Which cheretore, as hasbeen saie,
- may De called the real FPence: V. 5. che nominal Fsence ot Crold, is.
- that complex Paea the ord Crold Cands For, let it be, Por instance, a
- Body vellon: ot a certain weislu, malleable, fusible, and Axcd. But the
- real Pssence, isthe constiturion ot the insentible parts of that BodY, on
- erhich those Oualities, and all the ocher Proxerties of Grold depend. FTou
- Far chese ero are difterent, thouxhcher are both called Pserec, is obrious,
- AE ArA LiGHE, to discOVer.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 208. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0224?run=74