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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 237

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  1. Imperfeun oior
  2. Ono: Since FIerE Was RO OnC There, ThaE choushe noc himselE to under.
  3. stand very perlectir, What the Word Liquor Hood for; Wrhich, I thinte
  4. t00, none ot the inost perplexed names oE Substances. Flovever, thev
  5. ivere pleased to comply rith my Mocion, and upon Fxamination found
  6. that che lisnitication ot that Word, ras not (o settled and certain, asthey
  7. hadallimacined; bur that cach ot ehem made it a lion ot a ditterent cor
  8. plex Idea. This made them perceire, thatthe Main of their Dispute Was
  9. aboue che sienification of that Ferm; and that thei differed verr lirele
  10. in cheir Opinions, concernins fome Ruidand subtile Macter, Passinss chrouol
  11. the Conduits oF thoVerres; thouoh it Was not so casie to agree, Whecher
  12. it as to be called Liquor, or no; a chiine wtrich wrhen cach considered,
  13. Hethouoht ic noc rorth the contendino about.
  14. G. 27. FTor much chis is the Case ol che greatest pare ot Disputes, thai
  15. Men are engasec (o hotlr in, ITall, perhaxs, have an occasion in ano-
  16. cher place to talsenotice. Let us only here consider a lietle more exactly
  17. ehe Forementioned instance oF che WV ord Gold, and We MalI sce ho
  18. hard it is precisely eo determine ies Signification. AImost all agreo, thae
  19. it Mould signisie a BodY oF a certain rellor Mining Colour; irtich beine
  20. ehe Idea eo rhich Children have annexed that name, the Minine velloui
  21. part of a Peacocks Tail, is properly tothem Gold. Ocherstindins Fus
  22. Dility join d rith thac vellon Colour in Gold, thinkc the octer Wrtict
  23. contain d nothins but the Idea of Body ith that Colour not truly to
  24. reprelent GFold, buE to be an impertect Ldea OF FHat COrE OF Substance:
  25. And theretore etie Word Crold, as reterr d to chat sort ot subltances, docs
  26. oFriohe Sioniho a Body oF that vellon Colour, rtich by che Fire will B0
  27. reduced tO FusiOn, and not to ABes. Anocher by the lame Realon adds,
  28. the Weioh, Which beino a Dualier, as Sraicly join d with chat Colour, as
  29. iesFusibilier, he chinks has the lame Reason eo be join d in its Idea, and
  30. tobe lienitied by its namme: And cherelore the other made up ot Body, of
  31. Tuch a Colour and Fusibilier, to be impertect; and (0 on of aIl the rest:
  32. Wherein no one can seu a Reason, wliy lome of the inseparable Oualities,
  33. that are alars united in Nature, Pould be put into the nominal F. ence.
  34. and orbers lete out: Or Why the Word Cold, signitzine that sort of Body
  35. the Ring on his Finger is made ot, hould determine that sort, rather bV
  36. its Colour, Weioht, and Fulibilier; than by its Colour, Weiche, and Son
  37. lubilier in ag. regia: Since the distolvins it by that Liquor, is as insepa-
  38. rable trom it, a5 the Fusion by Fire; and ther are borh ot them nochine.
  39. but ehe relation char Substance has toewo orher Bodies, Which have a
  40. Porver eo operate differently upon ic. For by What Rioht is it, chat FusI
  41. bilier comes tobe a part of the Fssence, Cionised by the Word Crold, and
  42. Solubility buF a propereY OFiF: Or Why is its Colour part of the Fsence
  43. and its Malleableness but a property: Thar Wrhieh Pmean, is this, That
  44. these beins all but Properries, dependins on its real Constitution; and
  45. nochins buc Povers, cicheractire or pastire, in reserence to other Bodies,
  46. no onc has Authoritr to determine the signification ol che Word Ciold
  47. (asreterr d to such a Body exilting in Nature,) more to onc Collection ol
  48. Ideas eobe Found in chat Body, than coanother: Whereby che fionitica-
  49. tion ot that name mustunavoidabls De verr uncertain. Since, ashasbeen
  50. Faid, sereral People observe Properties in thelame Substarice; and, Pthinle
  51. I may Pay no Body all. And therelore me have but verr impertect
  52. descriptions of Fhings, and Words have verr uncertain Signitications.
  53. 6. 18. By Ertrat has been belore laid, it is casie to oblerve, that the
  54. Names of simple Ideas are, OF all ochers tne least liable to Mistakes.
  55. First, Because tho Ldeas chey Aand for, are much easier sOt, and more
  56. clearly

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 237. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0253?run=74