An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 275

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2. nificarion, thic precise Collection oF simple Idcas thez sand Por notbeine
3. E0 calily aEreed on, and so the Sien thac is used Por chem in Communi
4. cation, alrays, and in Thinkins, often, does nor alvars carer with it ElC
5. same Idea. Opon wrhich the lame Disorder, Contusion, and Frior Fol
6. Lons, as vould ifa Man, soins toderrionstrate lomethins of an HeDTa
7. son, Mould in che Diasram he tooh to do it, leave our onc of the AnEles
8. and by overlishe make the Figure rich onc ansle lels than ehe name Or.
9. dinarily imported, or he intended ic Bould, Wvhen aF ArKL he FhoWgHE ot
10. his Demonstration. This ostenhappens, and is harely avoidable in very
11. complex moral Ldeas, Where the Pame name beins retained, one Angle
12. 1. e. One simple Ldea is lest out or put in, inthe complex one, (sill called
13. by ehe lame name,) more at one timechan anocher. Secondly, From che
14. Complexednels oFthele moral Ideas there follons anocher Inconvenience,
15. (212.) chat the Mind cannot casils retain chole precise Combinarions, (0
16. exactlys and pertectlr, as is necellary in the Examination oF che Hlabitudes
17. and Correspondencies, Agreements or Dilagreemenes, of several, ol chem
18. one rithanocher; especially irhere it isto be judged of by lons Deductions,
19. and chelntervention of several other complex Ideas, 1o thewr che Aeree
20. ment, or Dilagreement of tiro remote OnCs.
21. The great help asainst chis, whieh Machematicians find in Diagrams
22. and Fisures, which remain unalterable in cheir Bransles, is very apparent,
23. aud the memory ould olten have great difticules ocherwise coretainthem
24. soexactly, whilst theMind ent over the parts oE ehemm, Aep by Aep, 10
25. examine their several Correspondencies: And thoueh in castins up à lons
26. Summ, cither in addition, Mulciplication, or Divilion, every part be oniy
27. 2 Proprestion oEthe Mind, takins a vie oE its omn Ideas, and conside-
28. rins cheir Agreement or Dilagreement, and che Resolurion oEthe Duection
29. Denochins but the RetulE oF che Whole, made ur ot such particulars,
30. Wrhereot che Mind has a clear Perception; vet wichour settins domn ehe
31. several Parrs by martis, whole precile signitications are knomn, and py
32. marles, thar last and remain in view, wrhien the memory had lec them 50:
33. it irould be almostimpolsible ro carrys so many difterent ideas in MInd,
34. ithout contoundins, or lettins Dip some parts ot the Reckonins, and
35. chereby malins all our Realoninss abour it uselels. In Which Cale, the
36. Crphers or Marhshelp not the Mind ac all to perceire the Agrcement ot
37. anv tro, or more Numbers, their liqualities or Proportions. Fhat thc
38. Mind has ouly by Incuition oE ics own Ldeas of the Numbers chemselves.
39. But che numerical Characters are helps co thememorr, to record and re-
40. tainthe sevecal Ldeas about which the Demonstration is made, Whereby a
41. man mas lenom hor tar his intuirire Rnomledse, in surverins several oF
42. ihe particulars, has procceded; that (o he may rithout Consulion s0 on
43. eo what is vet untenon; and at last, have in onc vier belore him thc
44. ResulE oF all his Perceptions and Rcasonins5.
45. 6. 20 One part ol these Disadvantares, in moral Ideas, wtrich has made
46. eliem bethoushr noc capable of Demonstration, may in a go0d mealure
47. De remedied by Deinitions, sertins dornehat Collection ot simple Ideas,
48. ertich every Ferm Mall Stand tor; and then usins che Terms stedily
49. and constanur for that precise Collection. And what methods Alsebra-
50. or Comethins of char kind, may hercatter susgest, to remore the other diffi
51. culties, is not casieto soretell. Contident Lam, that il Nen vould inthe
52. lamme method, and rith the lame indiftereney, search atter moral, as chey
53. do machematical Fruths, they vould sind them to have a Aronger Con-
54. nexion ore rich another, and a more necellary Consequence trom our
55. eleuc and distint Edeas, anid 10 come nearer persect Demonctracion, thar

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 275. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0291?run=74