Leibniz Legible

Machine transcription of the Leibniz Nachlass

Search the Nachlass

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 244

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.91.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

  1. Abuse of Woras.
  2. BOOk +d l.
  3. Distinctions, and accute Niceties, bur Obscuriey and Oncertainty, lcavins
  4. the Nords more unintellisible, and tho Reader more at 2 lols: FToW else
  5. comes it to pals, that Princes, spcakins or erritins to their Serrants, in
  6. their ordinary Commands, are casili underttood; Speahing to their
  7. People, in their LaWs, are not 10: Anc, a5 lremarted betore, doth it nOE
  8. ofren happen that a Man of an ordinari Capacity, very vell understands
  9. aText, Or a LaW, that he reads, tillhe conuIES an FXpOSIEOr; Or ZOCS EO
  10. Couneil; Who by chat eime he hath done explainine chem, matces the
  11. Words signihie cither nothing at all, or What he pleases.
  12. 5. F3. Whether any by Intorests ot these Prolettions have occasioned
  13. this, Prill not here examine; bur I leareit to be considered, Wrhether it
  14. Would noc be ell For Mankind, Wrhose concernment it is to kno Things
  15. asttiey are, and to dowhat ther oustt; and noc to spend their Lives in
  16. taltins about them, or tossing Words to and tro: Wwhiether it vould noc
  17. De Well, Ilay, char the Ose oF Words iere made plain, and direct; and
  18. that Languase, which as siren us for the improvement or Rnowledoe,
  19. and bond ot societr, Bould not be employ d to carten TrutI, and un-
  20. Scele Peoples Righes; to raise Micts, and render unintellisible both MO-
  21. ralitu and Relision. Or chat at lealt, isthis wil happen, it Mould nOE
  22. De thousht Lcarnins or Hnomledsetodo 10.
  23. 6. F4. Fourtbly, Anocher creat abuse of Words is, the tatins them for
  24. Thines. This, thoughir, in some deprec, concerns all Names in general; y et
  25. more particulariy affects those ot Substanices: And to this Abule, chele Men
  26. dremostsubiect, wrtio contine their Thouohts to an onc sictem, and
  27. sire chemselres up into a turm beliet of the Perfection ot ans reccived
  28. Iypothelis; Whereby ches comctobe perluaded, thar the Terms os that
  29. Sect, are (0 suited to che Nature oF Things, thar they perfectis corre-
  30. spond wich cheir real Lxistence. Whoisthere, that has been bred up in
  31. the Peripaterick Philosophy, nho does not chink the Pen Names, under
  32. erhich are rantsed the Ten Predicaments, to be ezactly contormable tothe
  33. Nature of Things: Who is there, ofthat School, that is not perluaded, that
  34. substantial forms, vecetative Souls abhorrence of aracuum intentional Species,
  35. exc. are Lomething real: These Nords Nen hare learned trom ther very
  36. entrance upon Hnorledse, and hare Found cheir Masters and Sycems lay
  37. sreat Aress upon them; andcheretore ther cannot quit the Opinion, that
  38. ther are contormable to Nature, and are the Representations oFlomethire
  39. thatreally exists. The Peatonists have their Soul of the Worid, ard ehic
  40. Fipicureans their endeavour tovards Motion, in their Atoms, ihen at rest.
  41. There is scarce any Sect in Philosophy has nor a diltinct Pet oF Terms,
  42. that others uncerstand not. Bur yet this Cibberist, irtich in the weat
  43. nels sFFTumane Onderstandins, serres lo Well to palliate Mens Ignorance,
  44. and eover their Frrours, comes by familiar ule amonost those otthe same
  45. Tribe, toscem the most important part ot Languase, and ot all otters
  46. the Terms the most signiticant: And Mould Aeriat and Theriai Ve
  47. hicles comeonce, by the prevalener oFthat Docerine, to be generally re-
  48. ceired any irhere, no doubt chole Terms rould make imprestions on
  49. Mens Minas, so as to establim them in the persuation of the realitr
  50. oF such Things, as much as that peripaterick Forms hare heretotore
  51. cone.
  52. S. L5. Honr mucte names raken for Thines, are apt to mistead ihe On-
  53. derstandins, the actencire Readins of philosophical Writers rould abun-
  54. dantly discover; and that, perhaps, in Words litele suspected ot any such
  55. miluse. IMallinstance in one onlr, and chaca rers familiar one. HIOw
  56. mans incrieate Disputes habe chiere been about Macter, as il chere Were
  57. TOHO

Cite

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 244. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0260?run=74