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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 264

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  1. Degrees of Lnomlede
  2. C II A P.
  3. Ofthé Derrees of our Rnomledee.
  4. B. F. A LL our Knom ledse consistine, as Phave Paid, in the vieu the Minc
  5. a has oF its omn Ldeas, wrhich is theutmolt Lighe and greatest
  6. Certainty, re wich our Faculcies, and in our waz of Hnowledeseare capable
  7. ot it may not beamils, to consider a little the degrees of its Fvidence.
  8. The different clearness ol our Rnowledse leemsto me to lic in the ditte:
  9. rent ves oF Percoption, theMind has ot the Agreement, or Dilagree-
  10. ment oF any oF irs Ideas. Por il ve will refleet on our ovn nays of
  11. Thinlcins, We Mall tnd, that sometimes the Mind perceires the Aorce
  12. ment or Dilaereement of tiro Ideas immediarels by themselres, without
  13. thie intervention ot ans other: And this, Pchink, e may call intuitive
  14. Rnouledee. For in this, the Mind is at ro pains oF proving or examining.
  15. Dut perceires the Truth, asthe Frc doch Lishu, onts by being directed
  16. comard it. Thus the Mind Derccires, that irhite is nor Black, That 2
  17. Circle is not a Triansle, Thac Phrec are more than Tvo, and equal to
  18. One and Zvo. Such kind of Fruths, the Mind perceires at tho first Siohe
  19. OEthe Ideas tosether, by bare intuition, without the intervention of any
  20. other Idea; and this kind oF Rnomledse is the clearest, and most certair,
  21. that humane Prailey is capable oF. This part ot Rnomledge is irresicti
  22. ble, arid litce the bristr Sun. Minc, Forces it selF immediately to be per-
  23. ccired, as soon a5 ever the Mind curns is vieu chacvas; and leaves no
  24. room For Flelutation, Doubr, or texamination, buc the Mind is presentr
  25. tilled ich che clear Listut oFit. Tis on this incuition, that depends all
  26. theCerrainty and Fvidence oF all our Rnomledse, Wrhich Certainty every
  27. one Ands to De (0 great, that he cannor imagine, and theretore not require
  28. a greater: For a Man cannot conceire himsel(capable ot a greater Certair
  29. er, than to Hnor that an Idea in his Mind is luch, as he perceires it to
  30. be; and that tro ideas, uherein he perceires a difterence, are ditterent,
  31. and not precisely the lame. IIe that demands a greater Certainty than
  32. this, demands he bnons not what, and Mes only that he has a Mind 10
  33. Dea Sceptick, ithout being able to be lo. Certaintr depends so Wwholy
  34. on this Intuition, that in the next degree of Anowledee, Which I call De-
  35. monstrative, chis incuirion is necellars in all the Connexions ol the inter-
  36. mediate ideas, without whiehe canno aucan nnorledscandCerraints.
  37. 5. 2. The next degrec os Knomledse is, where the Mind perceires
  38. che Asreement or Disagreemene ol any Ldeas, buc noc immmediatels.
  39. Thoush Whereever the Mind perceires the Aoreement or Dilaoreement
  40. OFany oF its Ideas, there be certain Rnomledse: Vet it docs not alirays
  41. happen, that the Mind sees that Agreement or Dilaoreement, Which
  42. there is betreen them, even irhere it is discoverable; and in that cale,
  43. remains in Tonorance, or at most, gets no tarther than a probable conie-
  44. cture. The Realonwhy the Mind cannot alvass perceire prelenty the
  45. ACreemenE Or Dilagreement ot ero Ideas is, because thole Ideas, con-
  46. cernins Whole Aoreement or Dilagreement the lnquirs is made, cannot
  47. Dy the Mind Be so put together, as to Mer ic. In this Case theri, When
  48. the Mind cannot s0 brins ics ideas together, as by their immediate Com
  49. parison, and as it vere suxta polition, or application onc to another, t0
  50. Perceiretheir Agreement or Dilagreement, ic is fain, by the Intervention
  51. ot ocher Ideas (oncor more, a5 it happens) to dilcover the Aereement
  52. or Disasreement, Which it searches; and this is that which we call Reaso-
  53. ting.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 264. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0280?run=74