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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 253

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  1. and Abuse , I ords
  2. Onderstandines hare. no octier Object irherein ther agree, but barely th
  3. Sound, ehic Thinos chat chey chink on at thac time, as expressed Dy char
  4. Nord beins quire different.
  5. 5. 7. Whether a Bas be a Bird, or no, is noc a question, Whether a BaE
  6. beanother Thins than indeed it is, or hare other Oualiries than indeed
  7. it lias, for chat ould be extremely absurd to doubt of: But the queltion
  8. is, r. Fither berircen those that acknom ledsed themselves to have Due
  9. impertect sdeas of orie or bocti oFthole Porrs oF Things, For wrhich chese
  10. Namesare supposed io stand; and then it is a real enquiry, concernin
  11. itie Nacure o a Bird, Or a Bat, to make their vet impertect Ideas oF it
  12. more complete, by examinins, whecher allelio simple Ideas, eo rhicti
  13. combined together, they boch sire ehie name Bird, be all. to be Found in
  14. a Bat: But chis is a Ouection onl) oE Enquirers, (noc DispuTerS,) irho nei
  15. cher actuni, nor dens, but examine: Or, 2. IE is a Oueltion berween Dis-
  16. Dutanes; Wtiereof the one aftiems, and the ocher denies, that a Bat is a
  17. Bird: Andttien the Ovection is barels about che Signification ol one, or
  18. Doch ehiese Words; in chat they not havins both the lame complex Ideas,
  19. io hichther sire chese ero Names, orie holds, and t’other denies, that
  20. these tnro names maz be affirmed one or another. Were ther acreed inthe
  21. Signification of these trro Names, it ivere impossible they Mould disputea-
  22. bout chem: For they vould presently and elearly sec, (ivero that adjusted
  23. bermeen ehem,) Wrhether all ehe simple Ideas; OE the more general name
  24. Bird, irere Tound in elie complex Idea ot a Bat, Or nO; and (othere
  25. could be no doube, rhecher a Bat ere a Bird, or no. And here I de
  26. sire it mar be considered, and caretully examined, whectier the greatest
  27. Part oFchie Dispures in the Worid, are noc meerly Verbal, and about the
  28. Signification of Words; and chat il che termsthes are made in, vere de-
  29. Fined, arid reduced in cheir Signification (a5 thes must be, Wrhere they
  30. Cignitie any chins) to thesimple Ldeas ther Cand For, thole Disputes rould.
  31. Hot end of themselres, and immediatels vaniMt. L leare it then to be
  32. considered, irtiat the learning of Disputation is, and hon well they are
  33. imploz d For the adrantase of themselves; or others, whole businels is
  34. onty che vain ostentation of Sounds; i. c. thole who spend their Lires in
  35. Disputes and Controverlies. When PMail sec anr oF thole Combatants,
  36. Srip all his Ferris of Ambiguier and Obscurity, (Wrhich every one may
  37. dos in the WVords he ales himselE, as far as he has clear and distinct NO-
  38. tions to which he applies them,) I Mail chinkehim a Champion FOr RnO
  39. ledse, Fruch, and Peace, and northe Slare of Vain-slors, Amibition, or
  40. a Parts.
  41. 8. 8. Zo remedy the Defects of Speech belore mentioned, to some desree
  42. and to prevent the Inconvenienciesthat follon trom them, limasine, the
  43. obserration of thele Follorine Rules may De of ule, rill some Body berter
  44. able siall judse ic rorthhis while, to thinss more macurels on thismat.
  45. ter, and oblisothie Worid with his Thoushus on it.
  46. First, AMan Mould take care touse no Word without a fienification, no
  47. Name Without an Idea For Wrhich hemakces it stand. This Rule will nOc
  48. feem altogether needless, to any onc ho Mall take the pains eo recol.
  49. lect ho osten he has met rith such WVords; a5 Instinct, Sympathy, and
  50. Antipathr. exc. inthe Discourse ot others, so inade use oF, as he misnt
  51. calili conclude, that chole thar used them, had no Ideas in their Minds
  52. to wrhich ther axplied them; but spoke them only as Sounds, Wrhich usu-
  53. ally served instead ot Rcalons; on the litie occations. Not but chat
  54. these Nords, and che likre, have andmay be uscd, in very proper Sionit
  55. cations; bur chere beins no nacural connerions betweea any Nords; anet
  56. aMy

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 253. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0269?run=74