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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 245

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  1. dse 0f Iords
  2. CitaP. 2.
  3. Gune sych thing realIY in Nature, dictinst From Body, as tis evident, the
  4. Nord Master Cands For an Ldea dictinet trom the Idea oF Body. Por it
  5. the Ldeas thesetro Perms Rood For, vere precisels che lame, eher mishe
  6. inditterenty in all Places be put one for the other: buc we scc, that tho
  7. ic be proxer 10 Pay, There is one Marter of all Bodies, One CanNOL CaY,
  8. There is one Body of al Matrers. We lamiliarly lay, one Body is bigger
  9. than another, out it Counds harI (and P chink is never uled) t0 laY, one
  10. Marrer is bigser than another. Whence comes this then. Viz. From
  11. hence, that thoushr Matrer and Body be noc really distinct; but Wrhere- ever
  12. there is one, there is the otter: Vet Matrer and Body, Aand For tvo dif-
  13. ferent Conceptions, Whereos the one is incomplere, and buE a part oF
  14. the ocher. For Body Aands Por a Tolid extended figured Substance, irhere.
  15. OF Matrer is but a partial, and more contuled Conception, it scemins to
  16. me tobe used Cor the Substance and Soliditr of Body, Wichout tateins in
  17. its Extension and Figure: And therelore itis chat speakins oF Master, we
  18. speak oF it alvarsas one, becaule in Truth, it exprels contains nothine
  19. Dut the Idea oF a solid Substance, wrhich is evers irhere the lame, erery
  20. irhrere unitorm: And cheretore ire no more conceire, or spcak oP different
  21. Matters in the Worid, than we do oF different Solidities; though Wre bOrH
  22. conceire, and speale of different Bodies, because Fxtension and Pisure are
  23. capable oE variation. Bur since Solidity cannor exist without FxtentiOn,
  24. and Fixure, the taling Matter to be the name ol lomethine realli existine
  25. under that Precision, has no doubr prodiced those obscure and unintelli-
  26. sible Discourses and Dispures, Wrhich hare Ailled the Heads and B0Oks ot
  27. Philosopters concernine Materia Prima; Which impertection or Abule,
  28. hon far it mas concern a great mans other general Terms. I lcave tobe
  29. considered. This, PchinlE, I may at least Pay, chat we Mould have a preat
  30. many Terver Dispures in the World, il Words mere taken for irtrat they
  31. are, tho siens ot our Ideas onl, and noc for Things chomselves. FOr
  32. ertien re argue about Matrer, or any the like Term, we truly argue on
  33. Ir about the Idea e expross by that Sound, whether, chat precile Idea
  34. aerec to ans thine really existins in Nature, Or no. And is Nen ouid
  35. cell, irhac Ideas they make their Words Cand for, there could not be halt
  36. thatObscurity or Wranslins, in the scareh Or supPOrt oL Pruch, that
  37. therc 15.
  38. 5. 26. Bur whatever inconrenience Collons trom ehis mistakc oF Nords,
  39. ehis Tam sure, chac by constant and familiar ulc, ther charm Men into
  40. Nocions Par remoretrom the Fruch oF Things. Fvould De a hard Mat
  41. ter to persuade any one, that the Words hich his Facher or School-
  42. Plaster the Parson of the Paristr, or sueh a Revend Doctoruled, sionified
  43. nochins chat really existed in. Nature: Which, perhaps, is none of the least
  44. Causes, that Menare so haraly drann zo quit their Mistakes; even in Opis
  45. nions purely philosophical, and ertiere ther have no ocher Interest but
  46. Truch. For che Words, they have a lons time been uled ro, remainins
  47. tirm in cheir Minds, tis no monder, chat the wrons Horions, onnexed to
  48. them, Bould noc be removed.
  49. it
  50. 6. 17. Fischly, Anocher abuse of Words, is the sertins tbem in ibe
  51. place of Thines, Which they do or can by no means signifie. Nemas oblerve,
  52. that in the general names oF Substances, wrhereot the nominal Fssences
  53. are outi Knorn tOus, Wrhen ve pue them into Propolutions, and altirm Ox
  54. deny any chins about chem, e do most commonly tacitly suppole, or
  55. incend, chey Mould stand for the real FSence, ot a certain sort ot Substances.
  56. For irhen a Man Pays Crold is malleable, he means, and vould insinvate
  57. Comechine more chanchis, thac Wtiat l. Call Crold is malleables (chous
  58. crulus

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 245. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0261?run=74