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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 267

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  1. Derrees of nomledee.
  2. Whereos cach is t0o subeile to be perceired, it is imponible tor vs to have
  3. anr exact Meatures ot che difterent dedrées ot thele simple Ideas. FOr
  4. supposins ehe Sensation or Ldea We name Whicenels, be produced in us
  5. br a certain number of Globules, which harine a verricier about cheir
  6. oin Centres, Prikre upon the Rerina oFche Fye, Wich a certain deoreo
  7. OFRotation, 25 Well as prosressire Sritenels; it willhenee catils FolIOW.
  8. Fhat che more the superticial parts of aHv Body are (0 ordered, as to re-
  9. Aect the Greater number oF Globules OF LigHE, and tO sive theM FMAL PrO-
  10. per Rotation, irtich is sic eo produce ehis Senlarion oF White in us, the
  11. more Whire Will that Bodr appear, char, trom an equal space sends to the
  12. Retina the creater number ot such Corpuscles, rith that peculiar Pore
  13. OFMorion. Id0 nor lay, thac the nature ot Listue contis in very (maII
  14. round Globules, nor ot Whicenels, in such a Texture ot parts as cives e
  15. cerrain Rotation to these Globules, When ie resects them; For L am nOL
  16. no treatins plytically ol Lishut, or Colours: Buc chis, Ithinle, I may
  17. TaY, FHaE P CaHHOT (are P would be glad any one vould makre incelligible
  18. that he did) conceire hoir Bodies without us, can anr rays aftect our
  19. Senses, but by the immediare contact of the sensible Bodies themselres.
  20. as in Fasting and Feclins, or the impulse of lome insensible Particles eo.
  21. mino trom them, a5 in Secins, FTcarins, and Smelline; by the disterene
  22. impulse of irhich Parts, caused by their difterent Size, Figure, and MO-
  23. tion, the varieer ot Senlations is procuced in us.
  24. 5. T2. Whecher then ther be Globules, or no; or Whether they have a
  25. Verriciey abour their oion C’entres, chat produce the Ldea oF Whirenels in
  26. us this is certain, chat the more Parricles oF Lipht are reflected From a
  27. Bodr, ticred eo sive ehem that peculiar Morion, Wrhich produces the Sen
  28. Pation of Whiceness in us; and possibly 100, the quicker the peculiar No-
  29. tion is, the whirer does the Bodr appear, From erhich the greater num-
  30. ber are reslected, as is evident in the lame piece oF Paper pur in the sun-
  31. beams, inthe Strade, and in a darte Fole; in cach of irhich, it will pro-
  32. duee in us the Fdea oF Whiteness in tar different decrees:
  33. S. F3. NoL Lnomins theretore What number oE Particles, nor Wrhat
  34. Morion of them is fit to produce any precile degree of Whicenels, We can-
  35. not demonstrate the certain Equalier of any tvo decrees of Whitenels.
  36. because ve have no certain Standard co meature chem BY, nOx MICanS +O
  37. diltinoui everr ehc least real difference, the orly help me have beins
  38. trom our Senses, which in chis point Cail us. But Where the ditterence is
  39. s0 great, as to produce in theMind clearly distinet Ldeas, ihose differen
  40. ces ean be pertectir rerained, there these Ideas ot Colours, as ve sec in
  41. different kinds, as Blue and Red, are as capable ot Demonstrarion, as
  42. Edeas of Number and Fxtenlion. What I have here laid of WVhiceness and
  43. Colours, I Think, holds true in ail secundaries Oualities and their Modes.
  44. 5. F4. These ErO, (~i2.) Intuicion and Demonstration, are the degrees
  45. OF our Rnomledoe; Whaterer comes Mort ot onc of these, ith Whatassu
  46. rance foerer embraced, is but Faich, or Opinion, but nor Rnowledoe, at
  47. least in all general Truths. There is, indecd, another Perception of thé
  48. Mind, employ dabour the particular existence of finite Beines without
  49. us; Wrhich ooins berond bare probabilier, and vet noc reachins perfectr
  50. to cither of the tore goine degrees ol Certainer, passes under the namie ot
  51. Hnomledse. There can be nochins more cortain, than that the Idea e re
  52. ceire trom an external Object is in our Minds; this is intuitive Knom ledoe.
  53. Butwhetherthere be ans thins more than barely that Idea in our Minds,
  54. Whether we can thence certainly inter the existence of any thing without
  55. us, Wrhich corresponds to chat Idea, is that Whereot lome Men thinl
  56. MM 2
  57. there

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 267. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0283?run=74