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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 265

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  1. Perrees of Knomlede
  2. ninc. ThustheMind beines willirig to Lnow the Aorcement or Disagree:
  3. inent in bignels, betveen the three Angles of a Triangle, and rvo rixhe
  4. ones, cannoth an immediate vie and comparins them, doir: Becaule
  5. thechree Ansles ot a Lriansle cannor De brousht at once, and be com.
  6. pared with ans ocher onc, or tiro Ansles; and (0 of this the Mind hasno
  7. immediate, no intuitire knomledse. In this Cale the Mind is tain 10
  8. find out lome other Ansles, to crhich thethree Aneles oF a Friansle have
  9. an Equality; and Eindins chose cqual to two risht ones, comes to lnom
  10. cheir Equalitr t0 tro right OnCS.
  11. 6. 3. Thole intervenins Ideas, Which serve to Meir elio Agreement oF
  12. any two others, are called Proofs; and Where the Asreement or Dilagroe.
  13. inent is by this means plainls and cleartr verceived, it is called Demon-
  14. stration, it beins ewnto the Onderstandins, and the Mind made lee that
  15. ii is (0. A quickness in the Mind 1o find out these intermediate Ideas,
  16. (That MaII diseorer the Apreemeni or Dilagreoment ot any Other,) and
  17. eo apply chem ristut, is, I suppose, that Which is called Sacaciry.
  18. 8. 4. This Unomledre By interveninz Proofs, thoustr it be certain, vet
  19. ilie Fvidence oF it is not altosether so clear and brighe, nor the asent (0
  20. readr, as in inivitive Rnomledoe. For thouoh in Demonstration, the
  21. Mind does at last perceire the Aereement or Dilagreement of the Ideas
  22. it considers; y et ris not without Pains and Atrention: Phere must De
  23. more than one transient viem eo find ir. A Ceddy axplication and pur--
  24. suit, is required tothis Discoverr: And there must De a Prosression by
  25. Steps arid desrees, belore the Mind can in this nay arrive at Certainey, and
  26. come to perceire the Agreement or Repugnanes berween uno Ldeas chaL
  27. need Prooss, and the Vle ot Realon to Mew il.
  28. 8. 5. Anorher difference betroeen intuitive and demonstrative lnoule dee-
  29. is, that thoush in the latter all doube be removed, irhenby che Interven-
  30. tion ofthe intermediate Ldeas; the Aoreement or Disagreement is per-
  31. ceired; yet belore the Demonstration there as a doubt, irhich in intui-
  32. tire snom ledse cannot happen to the Mindchat has its Faculty ot Perce
  33. peion lest toa degree capable of distinct ideas, no more thian it cari be a
  34. doubeto the Fye, (thatcan distinctly sec White and Black,) Whether this
  35. Inke, and ihis Paper b0 alI ot a Colour. IE there be Sieht in theFyes, it
  36. rill at trst slimpse, without Helitation, perceire the Words printed on
  37. this Paper different from the Coloui ofetie P’aper: And (o it theMindhave
  38. Ehie Faculty os distinct Perception, it will perceire chie AOFCCMenE Ox Disa-
  39. Ereement oE chole Ldeas chat prodiice intuirive Rnow ledse. IF the Fyes
  40. have lost thie Faculer oF secins, or the Mind oE perceivins, ve in vain en-
  41. quire alcer che quichriess ot Sixhr in one, or clearness ot Percextion in the
  42. Orher.
  43. 5. 6. FiS truc che Perception, procliced By demonseration, is allo very
  44. clear; but yet it is olten with a great abatemene oE thac crident sustre
  45. and Full alturance that alirars accompany chat Whichi l call intuitire; likie
  46. a Face reftected by several Mirrors one to another, Where as lone as it re
  47. tains etie limilitude and agreement with ehe Object, it produces a RnoW.
  48. ledse; bur tis still every rellection, with a lesenins oF chat perlect Clear-
  49. ress and Distincness, Wrhich is inthe trst; till in many remores it has e
  50. Freat mixture of Dimnets, and isnor at First Sigheso Khorable, especialsy
  51. Eo Weak Fy CS. Flius it is ich Hnomledse, made out by a lons train ot
  52. PrOOIS.
  53. 8. 7. Nou, in every scep Reason mates in demonstrative nomledee, there
  54. is an inruitive Knouledse of that Aereement or Disagreement it sceks wich
  55. chenext incermcdiate Ldea, irtiich it yles ad a eroot: Foril ic Vere no
  56. Mm

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 265. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0281?run=74