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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 225

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  1. Names et Substances
  2. derstandine, bue in a stranse Counery, with aII Fhinss neu, and untenoir
  3. about him; and no ocher Faculties, to attain the Rnomledse olthem, Dut
  4. What one ofchis Age has nor. ISe oblerres Lamechmore melancholy than
  5. ulualque and imagines it to be trom a suspicion hehasof his Wise Adah, whom
  6. hemost artentls loved, thar Be had to0 much HindneIS FOr anOtheF MLan.
  7. Adam discourses these his Thoughes eo Fve, and desires her to talie care
  8. that Adah commit noc FoIIY: And in these Dilcourles with sive, He
  9. males ule oF these tro nem Words, Kinneah and Niouph. Intime, Adame
  10. mistale appears, for lic finds Lamechs Prouble procceded From havins
  11. Hilld a Plan: Bur yet tho tvo Names, Kinneah and Niouph; the one
  12. standins For suspicion in a Husband, ot his Wives Distoraler cohim; an l
  13. che ocher, For the Act oF commitrino Distoraler. Ie is plain chen, FMaF
  14. here vere ero distinct complex Ideas of mixed Modes, With Names t0
  15. them, tvo distinct Species of Actions essentialIY different, I adtE Where-
  16. in consist che Essences oF these ero distinet Species ot ACtions, and tis
  17. plain, ix consisted in a precile Combination oF simple Ideas, different in
  18. one trom the ocher. Pasic, Whecherthe complex Idea in Adams Mind
  19. eytrich he calld Kinneah, vere adequate, ox no: And it is plain it WaS-
  20. For it beins a Combination of simple Paeas, Which he ithout regard eo
  21. ny Archetrve, without respect ro any thins as a Patrern; voluntarily pur
  22. eorecher, abstracted and save the NamO KinneahFO, EO expresS in PIOrE HO
  23. others, by that one sound, aIl the simple Ideas contained and uniced in
  24. that coplex one, it must necessarili FollOW, Fhat ic WaS an adeguate
  25. Edea. Flis omn choice harins made that Combination, it had all in it he
  26. incended it Bould, and (0 could not but be persect, could nOt but BC
  27. adequate, it beins reterr d to no other Archetrpe, Whrich ic iras suppoled
  28. Eo represent.
  29. 6. 44. These Words, Hinneah avd Niouph, By degrees erem into com-
  30. mon usc; and then the ease as somehat altered. Adam S Children had
  31. The sene Faculties, and FherCBY tHC samE POrer, thaF he hac, EO mate
  32. rhos complex Ideas ofmixed Modes they pleased in their orn Minds;
  33. Eoaract them; and malce What SoundS ther pleased, Fhe SignS OF FHCMS
  34. BuE Cheuse OF NameS, Being to male our Ldeas Within us BnOWN 1O O-
  35. thers FhaE cannot be donc, but when the lame Sien sands Por the same
  36. Idea in tro, irho vould communicare cheir Thouslts and Discourse to-
  37. Dether. Thole cheretore oF adams Children, chat Found thele EWO
  38. Nords, Kinneah and Nrouph, in Pamiliar ale, could noc cake them For in(is
  39. niticane Pounds: but must necds conclude, cher Aood For Comettrino, for
  40. certain Ideas, abstract Ldeas, thez beins general Names, Wrhich abstract
  41. Ideas vere theFssences of the Species, distinguished by thole Names. II
  42. cheretore they wonld use these Words, as Names of Species, already eMta-
  43. Blistid and agreed on they ivere obliged to contorm the Ideas in cheir
  44. Minds, Signihied by these Names, Fothie Ldeas that ther Rood For in orher
  45. etens Minds, and tocontorm their Ldeas tothem, as to their Patterns and
  46. Archetrpes; and chenindced cheir Ldeas of these complex Modes, tere
  47. liable to be inadequate, as Beins very apF (especialY those that consist:
  48. ed of Combinations of many simple Ideas) not to bC exactlr contorma-
  49. ble to the Pdeas in ocher Men S Minds, uline thc Tame Names; thouoh
  50. tor chis, there be ulually a Remedy at Hland, erhich is, to astr the meg-
  51. nins ol any Word e understand noc, ot him chat ules it: it beine asim.
  52. postible, to knom certaintr, What the Words scalousie and Adulterr
  53. Cerhicli Ichink ansiver Ha and sS) StandFor in anocher Mans Mind,
  54. rich erhom Pvould discourse about them; as it eras impossible, in the
  55. Besinnins os Languaso, co limo what Rinveah and Wiouph Aood for in
  56. anocher

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 225. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0241?run=74