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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 255

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  1. and Abuse of Ir o
  2. tice oFit. Nens intentions in speakins are, or at least Bould BC, to
  3. understood, which cannot be without ehe frequent Explanations, Demands.
  4. and other the like incommodious Interraptions, ivtere Nen do noc Fol-
  5. lon common VIc. Propriets oF Sxcech, isthat Wrhich sires our Thouxhes
  6. entrance into ocher Mens Minds, with the greatest ease and advantase5
  7. and theresore deserves some part oF our Care and Study, especially in che
  8. names of moral Nords, Wrhose proper ulc is to be learn’d Fromi thole, who
  9. in their Wricings and Discourses, appear to have had the clerrest Notions,
  10. and apply d ro them their Perms, With the best Choice and Clearnels.
  11. This was of ulins a Mans Words, accordins to the Proprietr ot the
  12. Languase, thoushit have not alvars the sood Fortune to be understood.
  13. Vet molt commonly lcares the blame ot it on him, irtro is so unstriltul in
  14. the Lansuase he speales, as not to understand ic, when made ule ol, asit
  15. ouslt tODC.
  16. 6. X2. Fourthly. But becaule common ule has not 10 visibly annexed
  17. any signification t0 Words, as to makee Men Uno alivars certainly ertrar
  18. ther precisely Cand For: And because Men in the Improvement of their
  19. Hnomledse, come tohave ldeas ditterent trom the vulsar, and ordinarr
  20. receired ones, For which they mult cither makie nem Words, (WhichMen
  21. seldom venture ro do, For sear of beins choughr suiler oF Afectation, or
  22. Noveler,) Or elle must ulc old ones, in a ner Signitication. Pheretore
  23. alter the Obserration of the loresoins Rules, it is lometimes neceltars,
  24. for che aCcertainins the signitication ot Words, to declare their Meanins;
  25. Where cither common Dse, has lett it uncertain and loose; (a5 ic has in
  26. mostnames of vers complex Ldeas;) Or where a Man ules them, in a
  27. Sense any ras reculiar to himselt; or nhere che Term beins very
  28. material in che Discourle, and chat upon which ic chieAy curns, is liable
  29. to any Doubitulness, or Mistale.
  30. 5. 23. ASthC Ideas, MenS Nords Stand For, are of different sOrrs; 10
  31. the waz oEmalins lnomn the Ldeas, ther Ctand For, Wvhen there is Occa-
  32. Cion, is also ditterent. For thoush detinins be thouxhe the prover vay
  33. to make tnoon the proper Signification os Words; yet there be fome
  34. Woras, that will noc be detined, asthere be others, irhose precile Mcanine
  35. cannoc De made lnown, but by Detinition: and, perhaps, a third, Which
  36. partale somenhat ot bochthe other, a5 We all see in the names of sim-
  37. ple Ldeas, Modes, and Substances.
  38. 6. F4. First, When a Ban malces uIe oF che name oE any simple Idéa,
  39. Which he perceiresis not understood, or is in danser to be mistatsen, he
  40. 1s obliscd by the Lars of Ingenuitr, and the end of Specctu, to declare
  41. its Meanins, and malee Hnon n hat Idea he makes ic Rand Por. This
  42. as has Deen Peved, cannot be done by Detinition; and theretore, wrhen
  43. a synonymous Word fails ro do it, there is but one ot these mazs lest.
  44. First, Sometimes chenamine the Subject, wherein ihat simple Idea, is t0
  45. De Found, ill makre its name be understood by thole, wrtro are acquainted
  46. wich chac subieet, and lnom ic by chat name. 50 to male a Counery-
  47. man underctand irhat Feuillemorie Colour sisnities, it mas suftice to tell
  48. tim, eis the Colour of ither d Leaves falline in Autumn. Secondly,
  49. But che only sure way ofmalcins lnoon the sionilication ol the name ot
  50. ans simple Idea, is hy presentins to his senses that Subject, Which may pro-
  51. duce it inhis Mind, and malie tum actually have che idea char Word
  52. ctands For.
  53. 6. 15. Seconaly. Mixed Modes, especially chole beloneine co Morality.
  54. beins most ol ehem such Combinations of Ideas, as the Mind puts 10gc.
  55. cher otis omn choice; and Whercot chey are nOt alvays candins Pat
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 255. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0271?run=74