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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 246

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  1. truly it amOUNES FO nOmOrC,) but would have this understood, viz. ThaE
  2. G0ld; 1. c. Wrhat has the real Fssence oF Gold is malleable, wtrich ammOUnES
  3. tothus much, char Malleableness depends on, and is inseparable trom the
  4. reat Fsence oF Gold. But a Nan, not lnoming wherein chat real Fsence
  5. consilts, the connexion in his Mind oF Malleableness, is not truly wirh
  6. an FITenCC HC KHOWS nOL, but only ith the sound Gold he purs for it.
  7. Thus When re lay, chat Animal rarionale is, and Animal implume bibes
  8. latis unenibus is nor a ∞00d detinition oF a Mlan; tis plain, re suppole
  9. theName Man in this ease to stand Por the real FsenCe OF a SpecicS, and
  10. erould signitie, chat a rational animal better deseribed thar real F.AenCC,
  11. etran a tvo. leq d animal with broad Nails, and without Feathers. FOr
  12. elso, wtiy misht noc Plato as proverls makee the N Orel, avepCONOS, Or Man-
  13. Pand For his complex Idea, made up oF the Ideas oF a Body, distinoui
  14. Med From others, by a certain chape and other ontvard appearances, 25
  15. Aristorle, malce the complex Idea, to Which he save the Name aVBpCOnOS
  16. Or Man- OEBOdY, and the Faculey ot reasonine join d togetler, unlessthe
  17. name aiBpCOTOS, Or Man, vere supposed to stand for Lomethine elle, than
  18. irtrat ic lienities, and the Ldea a Man protesses he rould express by it d
  19. 5. 28.Fistrue, the names of Substances would be muchmore uletul;
  20. and Propolitions made in them much more certain, ere tho real F ssenCeS
  21. OF Substances, the Ldeas in our Minds, Which those Words lignified. And
  22. tisfor ant oF those real FsSenCeS, that our Nords conver (O litElCKNON
  23. ledse or Certainty in our Discourses about them: And therelore the
  24. Mind toremore chat Impersection as much as it can, makres chem, by 2
  25. secret supposition, r0 Rand for a thins, havins thac real F ssence, a5 il
  26. cherchr it made some nearer approaches to ir. For thoues the Word
  27. Man or Sold, Signitie nothing truly but a complex idea ot Properties, uni-
  28. Eed Eorether in one Pore ot Substances: L’et chere is scarce any Body in the
  29. ule ot these WVords, but osten suppoles each ol those names to Aand for a
  30. thino harino che real Fssence, on trhich thole Propercies depend; Which
  31. is (0 far trom diminisinq the Imperlection of our Nords, that by a plain
  32. Abule, it adds to it: wrtien re ould matie them sand for Lomethine,
  33. Wrhich not beins in our complex Ldea, the name we ule, can no Ways BC
  34. the sIBN OE.
  35. 6. F9. This Mews us the ReaIon, Why in mixed Modes any of the Ideas
  36. chat mate the Composition of the complex one, beins lest out, or chansed,
  37. it is alloved to be another thine, 1. c. to be of another Species,
  38. 25 i5 plain in Chancemedy; Mansaushter, Murcher, Parricide,
  39. (5c. thie Reason Whereor is, because the complex Idea lignitied by
  40. thatnamme, is the real, as ell as nominal Fsence; and there is no secret
  41. reference os chatnaime tO any OEher F. NenCO, DVEFhaT. But in Substances,
  42. it is nor 10. For though in that called Cold, one puts into his complex
  43. Idea, Wrhat anocher lcares out; and vice Versa: zet Nen do not uluallY
  44. thint, that theretore ihe Species is chansed: Becaule they secretly in
  45. their Minds reser that name, and suppole it annexedco a real immutable
  46. Essence oFathins exictins, on Which those Properties depend. Ho that
  47. adds to nis complex Idea OF Cold, that os Fixedness, or Solubiliey in ag.
  48. regia Erhich he put noc in it betore, is notthousht to have changed the
  49. Species; but onty tohave a more pertect Ldea, by addins another, hich
  50. is altvars in rerum natura joined with those other, ot whieh his former
  51. complex idea consisted. But this reference of the name, to athins Wrhere-
  52. OFre have not the Idea, is (0 tar from helpino at allu Chat it onlY serVeS
  53. ehe more to involve us in Disticulties. For by this tacit reference to the real
  54. Essence oF chat Spccies ot Bodies, ihe Word Cold (rrhieti by Aandine (or
  55. BC
  56. Abuse of W

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 246. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0262?run=74