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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 215

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  1. Names of Substances.
  2. real Fssence it sel(, it is impossible eo bnor alL thole Properties, That ROW
  3. trom it, and are (o annexed to it, that any one ofthem beins avar, re
  4. may certainly concluile, that that Rsence is not there, and so the Phine
  5. is noc ofthat Species. We can never Hno wrhat are the precile num-
  6. ber of Properties, dependins on the real Kssence ot Gold, any onc oF WhicH
  7. failins, the real Fssence ot Ciold, and consequentir Gold, vould not Dc
  8. there, untess we lne the real F. Sence oF GOId it selF, and by chat de
  9. termined that Species. By the Nord Gold hero, Tmustbe understood to
  10. delion a particular picce otMatter; 2. g. the lalt Cuiriea that Was coind.
  11. For it it Mould stand here in its ordinary Signification for that complex
  12. Idea Wrhich I, Or any one else calls Gold: i. e. For the nominal Fssence
  13. of Cold, it vould be Fargon: Pohard is it, to Bew the rarious meanins
  14. and impersection of Words, wtien e have noching elle but Nords eo do
  15. it Dy.
  16. 5. 20. By all erhich it is elear, Tnat our distincuistine substances inte
  17. Species Dy Names, is not at all founded on their real Pssences; nor can
  18. We pretend toranse, and determine them exactls into Species, accordins
  19. co internal essential differences.
  20. B. 2F. But Cinco, as is atorelaid, re hare necd ot general Words; tho
  21. re bno not the real Eslences ot Thines; all re cando, is tocollect lueti
  22. a number ot simple Ideas, as by rixamination, re find to De united togei
  23. cher in Things existins, and chereof to matce one complex Idea; Whick
  24. thouoh it be not the real Lllence ot ans Subltance that exilts, is vet the
  25. Specisick Fssence, to Which our Namo belones, and is corivertible witk its
  26. DV wtrich wemay at least try the Truch oF chese nominal EssenCCS. POr
  27. Fixample, chere bechat lay, thar che Psence oF Body is Eixtension: IF il
  28. b0 l0, re can never mistalce, in puctins che Flsence ot ans chin Por the
  29. Thins it SCIF. Let us then in Discourle, put Sxtension For Body; and irhen
  30. we vould Cay, that Body mores, let us lay, that lxtension mores, and
  31. sec hor it will look: And he that sould lay, thatonc Extention, by Im
  32. pulle mores anocher lixtention, vould, by the bare tixprection, sustici
  33. entlr Be che absurdier of such a Notion. The Fssence oF any thins.
  34. in respeet otus, is therhole complex Idea, comprehended and marked by
  35. that Name; and in Substances, Beldes the sereral distinet Ciriple Ideas
  36. that makce them up, the contuled onc of Substance, or ot an unkenonn
  37. Suppore and Cause ostheir Vnion, is alvars a pare: And therolore the
  38. Fssence oF Body is not bare Fxtension, bur an extended solid thino; and
  39. soro lay, an extended solid chins moves, or impels another, is all Onc,
  40. and as intelligible, as to lay, Body moves, or impels. Lilcewile, to lay.
  41. that a rational Animal is capable ot Converlation, is all onc, a5tolay, à
  42. Man. But no one will lay, Thac Rationalits is capable ol Converlarion,
  43. becaule it matres not the whole Flence, to which e sire the Name
  44. Man.
  45. 8. 22. There are Creatures in the World, thathare Mapes like ours, but
  46. are hairy, and rant Languase, and Realon. Therc are Naturalsamonest
  47. us, that have pertectis our Chape, but rant Realon, and lome ol them
  48. Language 100. Thereare Creatures, as tis laid, (sit fides penes Authorem
  49. but chere appears no contradiction, that there Mould be luch,) that rith
  50. Languare, and Reason, and a Chape in other Thinss agreeins with ours,
  51. trave hairy Pails; others wrhere che Males have no Beards, and others
  52. erhere the Females have. IFit be astred, Whecher thele De aII Men, OrnO
  53. all of humane Species; tis plain, the Quection resers only to eho nomi-
  54. nal FNence: For thole to nhom the definition of the Nord Man, Or thO
  55. complex Ldea, sixritied by chat Name, aerees, phe are Men, and che
  56. EBEL

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 215. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0231?run=74