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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 257

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  1. Abuse
  2. ferred eo, and must correspond with. Peis tar casier For Mlen to trame il
  3. cheir Minids an Ldea, Which Mall be elie Standard to vrhich they will sive
  4. chenane fustice; ich erhrich Partern (0 made, aIl Actions chat agree,
  5. Mall pass under chac denomination, than havine scen dristides to trame
  6. an idea, chac Mall in all chinss be exactls libe him, Wrhois as hCis, ler
  7. Men makre What Notion, Or Ldea, they pleale othiii. For the one, they
  8. need buc lnow the Ldeas they frame ithin themselves: For the otter,
  9. ehier must enquire into the Wrhole Nature, and abstrule hidden Constitu-
  10. tion, and Qualiries oF a Fhins existine; rithout them.
  11. 5. F8. Another Reason that matces tne definine of mixed Modes F0 ne:
  12. cellarr, especially of moral Vords, is Wtrat I mentioned a lictle betore;
  13. and thatis, That it is the only way Whereby the sienification of the most of
  14. ehem can be Hnown with certaines. Por the Ideas they Card For, beins
  15. For the most part such, irhose component Parts no-where exist together,
  16. but scattered and minsled ith others, it is the Mind alone that collects
  17. them, and sires them the union of one Ldea: and it is onty by Words.
  18. enumeratinu the several simple Ldeas ertich the Mind has unired, thai
  19. we can malie lnomn to others, irhac their Names Cand for; and not by
  20. any application to the Senses, as tie can do in sensible simple Ideas, arid
  21. alloco lome degrec in Subltances.
  22. G. 29. Thirali, For the explainine the Cenitication, OE the Names of
  23. Substances as ther Hand For thie Pdeas e have of their distinet Species,
  24. both the fore mentioned Ways, viz. Ol sewins and definins, are requisite
  25. in mans cales, to be made usc or. For there beins ordinarily in cacti
  26. Sore Pome leadins Oualities, eo whichwe suppose the otter, Which makces
  27. ux our complex Ldea ot that Species, annexed, e sive the Niame tO
  28. fome Oualier, or Idea, Wtrich is the most observable, and e talce to be
  29. ihe most distinguistrins Idea oFchat Species. Thele leadins, or characteri
  30. Rical (a5 I may (0 call them) Ideas, in the sorts ol Animals and Vegctables,
  31. is (as hasbeen belore remarted) mostir Figure, and in inanimate Bodies
  32. Colour, and in lome Both together. NOI,
  33. 8. 20. Thele leadine sensible Qualities are thole, ihich matre the chief
  34. Ineredients of our specisick Ldeas, and consequenty the best Detinitions of
  35. our specitick Names, a5 attributed to Sorts of Substances comine under
  36. our Rnomledoc. For thouoh the Sound Man, in its oivri Nature; DC as
  37. ape to signitie a complex idea, made up of animalies and Racionalits,
  38. united in the lame Subject, as ro signitie any other combination; vet uled
  39. as a marke ro stand For a Port oF Creatures we coune oF our own kind,
  40. verhaps, the outvard Mape is as necessary to be taksen into our complex
  41. Idea, Lignitied by the word Man, as any other re lind in it. And there:
  42. Fore Wrhy Placos Animal implume Bipes latis unguibus, Mould nOt BC aS
  43. 500d a Delinition of the Name Man, Candins for that sort ot Creatures,
  44. Will not be casie to sew: For tis the Shape, as theleadins Oualiti; that
  45. Peems more to determine that Species, than a Faculer ot Realonine, which
  46. appears not at tirst, and in lome never. And il this be not allow d +o
  47. beso, Ido not knon hor ther can be exculed trom Murther, Wtro sit
  48. monstrous Births, (as ire call chem,) because of an unordiriary Strape,
  49. ichour Hnowins Whecher they have a Rational Soul, or no; Wrhich cari
  50. benomore discerned in a Well Formed, than ill. Baped Intant, as loon as
  51. BOrn. And Who is it has informed us, that a Rational Soul can intrabit
  52. no Tenement, insels it has just such a sort ol Froncilpiece, or ean join ie
  53. selfro, and intorm no sore o Bod7, but one chat is just ol such an OuE
  54. Nar Seructure:

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 257. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0273?run=74