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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 209

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  1. Names of Substances.
  2. 5. 3. For Tough, perhaps, voluntary Norion, ith Sense and RcaIOn
  3. join dto a Body ol a certain hape, be the complex idea, to Which P, and
  4. Ochers, annex the name Man; aud (o be che noiinal Essence oF the Spe-
  5. cies (0 Called: Vec no body Will Pay, chat chat complex Laea, is the real
  6. Fstence and Source oF all those Operations, are to be found in any Indi-
  7. vidual oFrhat Sort. The Counidation oF all thole Dualiries, Which are the
  8. Inoredients oEour complex Idea, is Comethine quire disferent: And had
  9. wesueha Rnovledoc; olthar Constitution oFMan, trom erhrich his Facul.
  10. eies oF Novins. Senlation, and Reasonins, and ocher Poivers IOW; and
  11. on Wrhich his lo regular Mape depends, as tis postible AngelS have, and
  12. tis certain his Malcer has, We Mouid have a quire ocher Idea oF his Fs
  13. sence, than wtrat nor is contained in our Detinition ot that Species, De it
  14. Wtrac ic will: And our Ldea or any indiridual BTan, Would DC 3s tar diste:
  15. rent trom Wtrat it noir is, a5 is his, Whro bnows all the Sprinss and
  16. Wrheels, and other contrivances wichuin, ol the famous Clock at Stras-
  17. Bure PErom that ertrich a gazine Countrr.man has of it, irho barely
  18. seesthe motion ofthe Iand, and hears tho Cloch Arilre, and oblerres
  19. Only lome ot the ourrard appcarances.
  20. 8. 4. EPoI much F Pence, in che ordinary use oF the wor, rolates t0
  21. SOrES, and thât it is considered in particular Beings, no Farctier than as
  22. ther arc ranted into Sores, appearstrom hence: That talce but awar the
  23. abstrast Ideas, by erhrich re lore Individuals, and rantc them under com-
  24. mon Names, and then chechoughe ol aus chins essential to any ol them,
  25. instantiy vanistres: e have no notion ol the onc, without the octrer:
  26. wrtrich plaintr Bowstheir relation. Tis necessari Por me to be as L aM5
  27. COD and Naturo has made me (0: Buc chere is nochins l tave, is el
  28. Cential to me. An Accident, or Dileale, may very much alter my Co.
  29. lour, or StaDe; a FeVer, Or Fall, may talee avaz niy Realon, or Memo.
  30. ry, or boch; and ari Apoplex leave noirtier sense, nor Ondorstandine,
  31. nonor Lilo. Ocher Creatures ol my sape, may be made rith mores
  32. and BeErer, Or seiver, and orse Faculties than P have: And others may
  33. hareReason, and sense, in a Thape and body very disterene trom mines
  34. None ofctieleare essential eo the one, or the other, or to ani Indiricual
  35. rhatloerer, till ehe Mind resers it to lome Sort or Species oE Thines:
  36. and then presenely, accordins to the abstract Idea oF Chat Sorr, Tomethins
  37. is found essential. Lec aris orie examine his omn Thouchus, and he
  38. ill And, chac as loon as he suxposes or spealis ol Fstential, the conside.
  39. ration oE fome Species, or the complex Iden signihied by Pome general
  40. hairie, comes into his Mind: And eis in reference to that, thuat this or
  41. that Oualiey is faid eo be essential; Pothat il ic be astred Whether ie De el-
  42. sentialto me, or ariy otter particular corporeal Beine to have Reason:
  43. Fay no; nox more than it is essential to this whice chins l irite on, e0
  44. hrave rords in ir. But is that particular Being, be to be counted ol the
  45. SOrt Man, and to have that name Man siven it, then Rcalom is essential
  46. EO Ic, suppoline Realon to be a part of the complex Idea the mame MIan
  47. Cands For: 25 it is essential to chis ching lvrrire ou; to contain vords, il
  48. F rill sive ic the name Treatise, and ranke it under that Species. S0 that
  49. essential, and not essential, relate ontr to our abstract Ideas, and the names an-
  50. nexed ro them; Whrich amounesro no more but this, That whaterer parti-
  51. cular Phino, has nor in it chose dualitiesi, erhich are contained in tle
  52. abltrast Pdea, Which any general term Ca nds FOr; cannor be ranked H-
  53. der chat Species, nor De called by that name, since that abstract Idea is
  54. tho very esseriee ofthat Species.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 209. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0225?run=74