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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 223

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  1. ames of Substances
  2. Stiock, and a Flound, are noc as distinst Species, a5 a Spaniel, ane an Fle.
  3. Pliane. We have no orher Laea ol the difterent tissence oF an Flephant
  4. and a Spaniel, than we hare oi the different Fsenee oF a Shock and an
  5. Found; al rhe essential difterenco, Wherebr e hnom and distinouis
  6. ehem onc from another, consiltins onty in eho ditterent Collection ot
  7. simple Lacas, to Wrhich we have siven those difTerenE BaMES.
  8. 5. 38. LTor muchthe makinz of Species and Genera is in order to ce-
  9. perat Names, and hou muchi general Namesare necestary, il not to etio
  10. Beins, vet at least co che Complcrins of a Species, and maleins it pals
  11. for such, Wrill appear, Belidles irhat has been laid, above, concernine lco
  12. and Wacer, in a veri tamiliar example. A silene, and a Srikins Wacch,
  13. are bur one Species, eo those ertro have but one name for tiem: but He
  14. ElaE has ehe name Wareh For one, and Clock For the other, and distinet
  15. commplex Ldeas, eo Wrhichi chose Names belons, to him they are ditterene
  16. Species. But iE Wrill De said, the inrard contrivance and consticution, is
  17. ditterent berween these tro, Which che Warch malier has a clear Idea
  18. OC: And VCF, ris plain, eher are tut one Species to him, Wrhen he has
  19. CUL OnC name FOr IBCM. FOr What is sufficiene in the invard Contri-
  20. vance, to malie a new Species: There are Iome Watebes, thac are mado
  21. Wich Tour Wheels, Ochers with Are: I5 this a Specifick difference tO FHC
  22. Worteman. Some have Strings and Pliysies, and ochers none; lomchave
  23. che Balance loose, ard octers regutated by a spiral Sprins, and ochers
  24. by F105S Briilles: Are any, or all oFthese, enouch to malse a specificke dil
  25. terence tothe Worteman, that bnorrs cach of chele, and several ortier
  26. difterent Contrivances, in the incernal Constiturions of Wacches. Tic
  27. certain, cach oF these hath a real difterence trom che rest; but wrtrether
  28. it be an essential, a specifick difference, or no, relates only eo the com-
  29. plex Idea, to nhichthe natme Wareh is siven: a5 lons as they all agree
  30. in ehC Edea FaE BelonES tO FhaE name, Whieh Bas no Species under it.
  31. they are nor essentially nor speciticails difterent. But il any onc ill
  32. inake minuter Dirilions trom Difterences, thac he lnors in che internal
  33. trame ot Wacches; and to such precile complex Ideas, sive names, chat
  34. AaII prevail: cher: Will then De nem Species to them, Wvhro have those
  35. Ideas, Wicti Bames Eo chem; and can, by those ditterences, distinouisti
  36. Wacches into chese several Pores, and chen Narches will be a generical
  37. namC. But Vet ehey ousd be no diltinct spccies ro Men ignorant ot
  38. Cloch Worl, and ehe inmard Contrivances of Warches; Who had no
  39. oetier dea, ur the outvard Chape and bulk, wich tho martrinc ot the
  40. ETourS BY ehc FTand: For to them, all chose ortier Names vould be but
  41. Eynenymeus Fermsfor che lame Idea, and Sisnitie no more, nor no orter
  42. EtinS buE a NarCh. Sust EhuS; PchintC, ic is in nacural FhinOS. NOBO.
  43. dy WiII ouDE, that thic WheclS, Or SpringS (il Pmaz SO Pay) wictiin, are
  44. disterent in a rationat Man, and a Chanceline, nomore chan chat chereis a
  45. disterence in ehe Prame betwreen a DrIl, and a Chanceline. DUE Wherher
  46. onc, or Boch thele difserences be essential, or spccitical, is onlY to BC
  47. lnomn tous, By cheir aereement, or dilagreement rith the complex
  48. Idea that chie name Man Llancs For: For by chat alone can it BC deter-
  49. mined, WHecher one, or both, or Deither oErhose BC a NIan, Or nO.
  50. 6. 39. From Wrtrachas been betore Caid, We may see the reason, whr, in
  51. the Species of arcisicial Thines, there is generally less confusion and uncer-
  52. rainty, than in natural. Decause an arciticial Thins beins a production ot
  53. Man, Which ehe Arcificer designd, and cherelore WelL Lnons che Idea
  54. oF, the name oF it is suppoled to stand tor no octer Idea, nor tO import
  55. ans orher estenee, chan wlat is certainls 1o be lmomn, andeasie enoust

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 223. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0239?run=74