An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 229
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- Particles.
- HOL eo be wondred, that most oF cliele Partieles have divers, arid some.
- times almost oppolire significations. In the Hebrem Pongue, there is a
- Particle consistine but ol one single Letter, oF whieh there are reckoned
- up, asP rememiber, seventr, Tam sure above Asty several sionifications.
- 8. 5. B2 Y is a Particle, none more Familiar in our Languase: and he
- that lays it is a discretire Conjunction, and that it ansvers Sed in Latim,
- er Mais in French, chiriles he has surficieney explained it. But yet it
- seems to me to intimate several relations, the Mind sives to the several
- Propolitions or Parrs of them, Which it joins by this monosz Ilable,
- First, BV Y eo say no more: Flere it intimates a Aop of elieMind, in
- thie course it ias goiriz. betore it carrie to the end oEii.
- Secondlr, Ysau B~ T tuo Planets: FTere it MeS, that the Mind
- liits the sense ro irtrat is expresed, rrith a negation ot all otlier.
- ThirdIY, Ton prayz BD Y it is not that GOD nould brine jou to the
- true Relirion,
- Fourthly, BVY chai he vould confirm jou in jour oion: The First ol
- these BZ TS, intimates a supposition, in the Nlind, oF somethino other:
- Wise chan it Mould bes the lacter Mers, chat the Mind malies a direet
- opposition betreen thai, and What soes belore it. i
- FIsthIY, All Animals have sense; B2 T a Doq is an animal: FTere il
- signities lictle more, but chacthe lacier Proposition is joined to rhe formeri
- 25 the Minor oF a SyVlogism.
- 5. 6. Fochele, Idoubt nor, mishe be added à greae manis other signi.
- fications of this Particle, il it ere my businels to examine it in its TuII la-
- titude, dnd consider ie in all che places it is eo be Pound: Whien it one
- Mouid do, Idoube, Whecher in all chose manners ic is mado usc of, it
- erouid deserre the title of Discretive, ertrich Grammarians sire to it. Buc
- I intend nochere à FuIl explication ot this Pore oF Siens; the instances I
- have giren in this one, may sive occasion to reflect upon their use and
- Force in Languase, and lead us into the contemplation of several actions
- oFour Minds in discoursing, Wtich it has found a ray to intimate to
- Others by these Particles, Lome Whiereot constantr, and others in cor
- tain constructions, have the serse of a whole sentence contaiti d in
- thiem.
- C+L LL L. VII
- Os abstract and concrete ACtn.
- D. T.
- neral FllenceS, Wherebr the Sores of Phinos are distinguistied: NOW CaciI
- abstraet Ldea beino distinct, (o that the oric can never b0 che orhet, u
- Mind ill, by ies intuicive Rnouledse, perceive their difference; ana
- Theretore in Propositions, no tro wliole ideas can ever be attirmed one
- oF arocher. This ve sec in ehie common usc oF Languase, W
- permits not any tuo abstract Wrords, or Names of abstract Lacas, W0uas
- Fe ordinars Words of Languase, arid our comirion ise ot
- them, rould have sivert us neno ene nalueo ou Lacus,
- it thes hadbeen but considered rith artention The Mind, as has beeri
- Menn, has a porerto abstract its ideas, and (o thei become Flences, se-
- firmed one of another. For lion eat et huttoore ines ias lecit lodes
- and hoW certa lon Ca ra o du lla O Lullolla O WllC.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 229. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0245?run=74