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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 263

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  1. Lnovledre.
  2. Whenerer that Propolition comes asain to be reflected on, he, wichout
  3. doube or hesitation, embraces the righE (dc; aNTenES FO, and is certain ot
  4. the Truch oFit. This, Ichint, one may call habitual Rnouledse: And
  5. thusa Nan may be said ro Knoi all chose Pruths, irhieh are lode d’in
  6. his Memory, by a Foresoins clear and Tull percertion, Whereot theMind
  7. is alsured past doube, as olten as it has occasion to reslect on them.
  8. For our tinite Onderstandinss beins able to think, elcarly and distinctlr,
  9. buc on one rhing at once; il Nen had no Linomledee ot any more thar
  10. Wrtrac thes actually thoushe on, thes rould all be verr ignorant: and
  11. he that lenem most, vould bnor bur one Fruth, thac beins aIl he Was
  12. able to thinte on ac one cirre.
  13. 5. 9. OE habicual Hnomlecdeo, chere are also, vulsartys speatins, 1WO
  14. derrees:
  15. First. The one is Ot such Truths laid up in the Memory, as ioben-
  16. ever ther occur to the Mind, it actually perceives the Relation is De-
  17. tveen those Ideas. And this is in allthose TruEHS, WHereOF We have
  18. an intuicive Rnomledso, Wrhere the Ldeas themselves, by an imme
  19. diate vier, discOVer theIs AETCCMeNE, or Dilasreenient one itH a
  20. nother.
  21. Seconcly The othex iS OE such Fruchs, Whereof the Mind havine been
  22. convinces, it retains the memory of the Conviction, without the Proofs.
  23. Thus a Nan that remembers certainly, that he once perceived the
  24. Demonstration, chat the chree Aneles oF a Friangle are equal tO tvo
  25. riche ones, is commonty allor d tobnor ie, because he cannot doube
  26. et the truth of it. Bur set havins forsorthe Demonstration, sricly
  27. Speakina, he rather belieres his Memory, than KnOWS the thins; ox
  28. rather ic is somethiins becrreen Opinion and Rnoledse, a sore ot astu-
  29. rance that execeds bare Beliet, Whieh relies on the Teltimonz ol ano
  30. eher, and vet eomes Morr of perfect Rnomledse. For Rnowledee con-
  31. Eltino in a elear Perception ofthe Relation ot any tiro Ideas, etther by
  32. an immediate juxta- Position, as in intuitire Rnomledse; orby che inter-
  33. vention of other Ldeas, Which de immediately discover their Relationone
  34. toanother, as in Demonstration, thie Mind cannot, in srictness, be said
  35. tohare (o much as an habitual Rnomledse, Wrhere it has nor an habitual
  36. ier oF the PrOOFS; Wrhere it has nOt TucH a NTeMONY OF thC DerON-
  37. stration, that ie can, Wrtren that Proposition is again recassd to theMind,
  38. perceire the connexion ol chole Ideas, by the inteerention oP sueh ocher
  39. Ldeas, Whole immediare connexion, or relarion one to anorher, Me The
  40. relation ofthe FXtremes. And hence it is, chat demonstrative Hnomledee
  41. is much more impersect chan tncuilive, d We Mull sec in che solloWins
  42. C HapTCr.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 263. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0279?run=74