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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 274

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  1. exteni of Tumane nomledee.
  2. BOOKLV
  3. that are ignorant oE Alcebra carinot imagine the Wonders in eliis kind
  4. are to be done by ic; and erhat farcher Improvements and Helps, ad vari.
  5. tageous to other parts ofRnomledee, the lagacious Mind of Nan may
  6. Vec find our, tisnor easteto determine. This at lcast IBelieve, tlat che
  7. Ideas oF Ouancier are noc those alone thatare capable of Demonstrarion
  8. andHnomledse; and that ocher, and pertiaps more usetul parts of Con-
  9. templacion, rould aftord us Certainty, il Vices, Passions, and donri-
  10. necrirs Interests did noc oppole, or menace such Fndcavours.
  11. The dea ot a supreme Beins, intinite in Porver and Wisdom, wrhole
  12. Workimanshix re are, and on whom re deperul; and the Idea ot our
  13. selres, as understandine, rational Creatures, beins such as are clear in uS,
  14. Would,. I suppole, il duly considered, and pursued, attord such Founda-
  15. rions ot our Duty and Rules oF Action, as misht place Moralicy amonest
  16. ihe Sciences capaele of Demonstration; Wherein I douDe nOE, BUE FrOm
  17. Principles, as incontestable as those of the Mathematicks, Dy necessary
  18. Consequences, the mealures oF risht and urons mighr De made out, toany
  19. one that rill apply himsels rith the same Indittereney and Aetention tO
  20. theore, as he does to the other ofthese Sciences. The Relation ot ocher
  21. Modes may certainls be perceired, as well as those of Number and FX-
  22. tension; and P cannot sec Why thez Bould not also De Capable ot Deron-
  23. Stration, if due Methods ivere thouche on ro exammine, or pursue cheir
  24. Agroement or Dilagreement. Where there is no Proprietr, there 15 10
  25. Injustice, is a Propositionas certain as ans Demonstration in Fuclid: POr
  26. the Idea ot Properer, beins a risht to ans chins; and the Idea eo wrtrichi
  27. the name Injultice is given, beins che Inration ox Violation ot that riehe;
  28. it is evident, thatthese Ideas beins ehus cMlablithed, and these names an
  29. rexed tothem, L can as certains bnom chis Proposition tobe true, as
  30. that a Friansle has chree Ansles equal to trorisht ones. Again, 1060-
  31. vernment allous absolure Liberry, ehie Idea ot Grovernment beins the esta-
  32. blisiment of Sociey uxon certain Rules Or Lars, Wtrich require Contor-
  33. mitr ro them; and the Idea of absolute Liberer, Deing for auy one co do
  34. erhacever he pleales; Iam as capable of being certain of the Truth ot thiis
  35. Proposirion, a5 oF ans in MathematickS.
  36. 5. 19. Thac which in this respect has siven the advantase to the Ideas
  37. OE Ouantity, and made themthousht more capable of Cerraints and De-
  38. monstration, is,
  39. First, Thac they can be ser dorn, and represented by sensible marks
  40. erhich have a greater and nearer Correspondence ich themthan a.
  41. ny Words or Sounds whatloever. Diagrams drann on Paper are
  42. Copies of the ideas in the Mind, and not liable to the Incertaintis that
  43. Words carry in their Signification. An Anglo, Circle, or Square, drain
  44. in Lines, lies open cothe vie, and cannot be miltalien: it remains un
  45. chanseably, arid may at leisure beconsidered, and examined, end theDe-
  46. monttration berevised, and all the parts of it may be sone over more than
  47. onco, rithout any danger ot the least change in the Ideas. This CannOt
  48. De thusdone in moral Ideas, We have no sensible martes that resemble ihem,
  49. Whereby e can set them donn; e have nochins but Words to exprels
  50. eliem bys Wrhrich though, When trrieten, ther remain the same, vet the
  51. Fdeas they Rand For, may change in the lame Man; and tis very seldom,
  52. that cher are not different in ditterent Perions.
  53. Secondly, Another ching that matres the greater difficules in Ethicks,
  54. is, Thatmorat Ideas are commoniy more complex than thole oF the Fi
  55. cures ordinarily considered in Mathematicks: trom erhence these trrotn.
  56. conveniences tollo: First, Fhac elieix mames are ot more uncerrain Six.
  57. nisacatior,

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 274. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0290?run=74