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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 222

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  1. Names of Substances.
  2. 5. 34. From What has Deen said, ris evident, that Men make sorts of
  3. Things. For it Deins ditterent P. Pences alone, thar make different Spe.
  4. cies, tis plain, that ther ertio make chole abstract Ideas, irtrich are the
  5. nominal FSences, dothereby makethe Species, or Sort. Strould there be
  6. a Body Found, havins all ehe other Oualities oF Gold, except Malleable.
  7. ness, trould, no doube, be madea queltiom, whether it were Crold, Or nO;
  8. erhether it ere ofthat Spccies. This couldbe determined onty by thac
  9. abstract Idea to rrhich everr one annexed the name GoId: (O FhaL IE
  10. ould be true Gold tohim, and belons to chat Species, wrho included
  11. noc Malleableriess in his nominal fislence, lignitiedby che Pound Crold; and
  12. on the other Cide, it ould not be true Ciold, or ofthat Species to him, wnho
  13. included Malleableness in his specitiek Idea. And Who, I prar, is it, that
  14. makces these divers Species, even under one and the same name, Dut NCn
  15. thatmate tro dilterent abstraet Ideas, consisting not exactlr oF the same
  16. collection of Qualities: Nor is ic a mere Suppolirion toimagine, that a
  17. Body may exist, Wherein the othier obvious Qualities ol Crold may be
  18. Writhiout Malleablenels; Cince it is certain, chat Cold it selF vill be lome-
  19. times (o cager, (a5 Artilts CaILiC,) thar it will as licele endure the PTam.
  20. mer, as Cla(s it SelF. What e have laid, ol the putting in, or leaving
  21. out of Malleablenels out ot the complex Ldea, the name Gold is, by any
  22. one, annexed to, may be laid ot its peculiar Weishr, Fixednels, and se-
  23. veral other the likre Qualities: For Wharever is lest out, or put in, eis
  24. Sill the complex Ldea, t0 Wrhieh char name is annexed, that matces the
  25. Species: and as anz particular parcel ot Matrer ansivers that Idea, (O the
  26. name of the sore belones truly to it; and it is of that Species. And thus
  27. any thing is true Gold, perfect Metal. AII ehich determination ot tho
  28. Species, tisplain, depends on the Onderstandins oF Man, matsins this or
  29. that complex Idea.
  30. 8. 35. Thisthen, in Mort, is the case: Nature makes many particular
  31. Thines, Which do aeree, one rrith another, in mans sensible Qualities;
  32. and probabls t00, intheir internal trame and constitution: But Fis nOE
  33. this real Fsence, that distinsuites them into species; tis Men, Who,
  34. talins occalion trom the Oualities they find united in them, and irhere-
  35. in ches obserre osten, sereral individualsto agrec, ranse rhem into Sorts,
  36. in order to their namine. For the convenience ot comprehensire ligns;
  37. under ertich particular, Individuals, accordins to cheir conformity to
  38. this or that abstraet Idea, come to De rantied, a5 under Fnsiens: (0 thaE
  39. this is ofche Blew, thar the Red Resiment; this is a Man, that a Drill:
  40. And in chis, Ithinle, consists the whole bulinels ot Cenus and Species.
  41. 9. 36. Idonor dens, but Nature, in the constant production ot par-
  42. ticular Beings, makces them not alrars ner and various, but very much
  43. alitre and ot kin one to another: Buc I think it is neverthelels true, that
  44. the Boundaries of the Species, Whereby Mensort them, are made by Men;
  45. Cince the Fssences oFthe Species, distinguithed by ditterentnames, arc, as
  46. hasbeen proved, ofmansmakins, and seldom adequate to the internal
  47. Nature of the Thinss thes are talen trom. S0 chac We may truly (aY,
  48. such a manner of Portins of Thines, is the Workmanship ot Men.
  49. 5. 37. One thins, Pdoubenot, but will leem very Aranse in this D0.
  50. Arine; erhich is, thac, trom irhat has been laid, it rils follow, thaceach
  51. abstract Ldea, with a name to it, mates a distinet Species. Buc Who can
  52. helpie, il Truch will have it (0: For (o it must remain, till Lome body
  53. car Ber us the Species oF Thines, limitted and distinguished by lome
  54. chins else; and ler us see, that general terms signitie not our abstract
  55. Ideas, buc somethins disterent trom chem. P rousd tain tnou, utis 2
  56. Shock.
  57. ad

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 222. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0238?run=74