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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 272

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  1. lixtent of FTumane Lnomledse.
  2. BoOR LV.
  3. And if ie linew chele primory Oualities oF Bodies, wemight have realon to
  4. tiove, e mislut be able tolinor a great deal more ot thele Opcrations ot
  5. ehem onc uxon another: But our Minds not beine able to discover any
  6. connexion betwixt chele primary qualities of Bodies, and ehe lenlarions that
  7. ore produced in us by them, e can never be able to ectablith certain and
  8. undoubred Rules, ot the Consequence or Co existence ot any secundaris
  9. Oulities, thoush re could discorer the lize, tigure, or motion of thole in-
  10. Cible Parts, Trhich immediatelr producethem. We are (0 tartrom lnorine
  11. Wrhattigure, sizo, or motion oF parts produce a rellor Colour, 2 lveet
  12. Tacte, or a Marp Sound, that re can by no means conceire hou any
  13. Sire, fgure, or motion otany Particles, can possibly produce in us ttie Idea
  14. oF ans Colour, Talte, or Sound Whatsoever, chere isno conceivable con-
  15. rexion becrixt the one andthe other.
  16. 5. 24. In vain theretore all re endeavour to discover by our
  17. Tdeas, Cthe onlr true way of certain and universal Rnowledse,) Wvhat
  18. Other Ideas are to be found constanels joined with thac of our com-
  19. plex idea ot ans Substance; since we neither bnom the real Consticurion
  20. ot the minute Parrs, on Which their Oualities do depend; nor, did We
  21. Hnom them, could re discover any neceltars connexion betreen them,
  22. and any ofelie secundary Oualities; Wrhich is neceltarr tobe done, Betore
  23. re can certainy Hnowtheir necessarr co. existenco. S0 that let our coniplex
  24. Idea oF any Species os Substances, be What it vill, we can hardly, trom
  25. the simple ideas contained in it, certainty determine the necellarr co-
  26. existence ofany other Oualiey trhatloever. Our Rnormledse in all these
  27. Enquiries, reaches very lictle Farcher than our Experienco. Indced, Pome
  28. ferr os etie primary dualiries have a necestary devendence, and visible
  29. connexion one with anocher, as Figure neceslarili suppoleS FXtenSION,
  30. receirins or communicatine Morion by impulle, suppoles salidier. But
  31. thouohthese, and perhraps lome others of our Ldeas have; yet there are
  32. Porre seu ofthem, that have a visible Connexion one with another, that we
  33. ean by Intuition or Demonstration, dilcorer the co.existence ot verr for
  34. oFche Oualities are eo be found uniced in Substances; and we are lese
  35. only tothe assistence oFour Senses, to makie Bnon to us trhat Oualities
  36. they contain. For al the Oualities that are co existent in any subject,
  37. Wittiout chis dexendence and evident connerion of their Ideas one vict
  38. another, e cannor lnom cerrainly to co exist ans Parther, than FxPe-
  39. rience, by our Senles, informs us. Thus thoush re sce the yellor Co-
  40. Jour, and upon trial find the Weight, Malleablenels, Pusibility, and Fixed.
  41. Bels, chat are united in a piece oF Ciold; vet because no one ot cheso
  42. Ideas hasany evident dependence, or necellars connexion with the other;
  43. re cannot certaints bnoir, that where any Tour oF chele are, the Histh
  44. will be chere also, hon hishly probable foever it may be: Becausethe
  45. higheit Probabilies, amounes not 1o Certainey; wichour which, there
  46. can be no true Rnomledse. For this coexiltence can be no Farther
  47. trown, than ic is perceired; and it cannot be perceived, buc cirter in
  48. particular Subjects, By the obserration of our Senses, or in general, Dy che
  49. necellari connexion oE the Ldeas Themselves.
  50. 8. 25. As to incompatibility or repuenancy to co existence, We may KnOW.
  51. chac any Subjeet can have ot cach lort ot primaris Qualities, but one parri
  52. Cular aE once, v. 5. Cach particular Extension Ficure, number ot Parts, Mori
  53. om exeludes all orher of each kind. The likro also is certain of all sensible
  54. Ideas peculiar to esch Sense; For Whatever of cach hind is prelent in
  55. ans Subject, excludes all ocher oF Fhat lOrT; v. g. no one Subject can
  56. have cWo Srgello, er Cro Colours, at che lume rime. L0 chis, pertape
  57. vil.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 272. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0288?run=74