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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 285

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  1. LReality of Knontenz.
  2. by joinins another Idea OF niS ONn IO thaE NamC: But Arip H
  3. Idea oF that Name, or talre it fich as it is in the Spealters Mind.
  4. andthe Came Thinss rill aerce to ic, as iE you calld it Injultice. In
  5. decdu vrone Names in moral Discourles, brecd uluallr more dilorder,
  6. because cher are noc locasil rectitied, as in Mathematic(ES, Where the
  7. Figure once drain and scen, makies the Name usclels, and ot no Force:
  8. For what necd ofa Sign, hen the Thins signified is present arid in vier;
  9. But in moral Wiames, chat cannot be so calily and thorer donc, because ot
  10. the manr decompositions chat s0. to che maline up ehe complex Ideas oF
  11. thiose BIOdeS. BUF Vet For aIl Ehis the miscalline of any ot thole Ideas,
  12. contrarr to Ehe ulual sionificarion oF the Words otthat Lanouase, hinders
  13. noE BUE WC Ma; tave certain and demonstrative Knouledee ol their sereral
  14. Aorcements and Dilaercements, il re ill caretullr, as in Mathematicks;
  15. Icep to chesame precise Ideas, and trace them in their leveral Relations
  16. onc coanorlier, ithout beins led arar by their Hames. IP We bue se-
  17. Parate che Idea under consideration, trom che Sion that Ctands For iE, our
  18. Rnoledse soes equally on in the discorery of real Truth and Certaines,
  19. Whatorer sonnds re makce ule of.
  20. 6. F0. One thins more reare to take notice ot, THat Wvhere GOD.
  21. or any ocher LaWv-maleer, hath delined any Moral Names, there ther
  22. havemade the Esence oF that Species to wrhich that Name belonos; and
  23. there it is not sate to applr or usc them ocherrise: Bur in ottier colestis
  24. bare impropriets ot Specch to appls them contrari co the common ulage
  25. Ot the Counerr. Buc vet even this toodilturbs not chescertainey ol char
  26. Rnorvledce, Wrhrich is stiil to behad by a due contemplation and compa
  27. rins olthose eve nicle nam d Ideas.
  28. B. TF. Thirdly, There is another Tort oF complex Ideas, Wtich being
  29. referred to Archerypes without us, mas difter trom them; and so our
  30. Rnowledoe about them, may come ort ot beins real; andthele areour
  31. Ideas os Substances: Which consisting oF a Collection ot simple Ldeas,
  32. suppoled intien trom che Wortis ot viature, may yet vary tromthem, by
  33. having more or different Ideas united in them, than are to be found uni-
  34. ted in the Thines themselves: From wrhence it comes to pals; that
  35. they maz, and olten do fail of beins exactls conformable io Things
  36. chemselres.
  37. 6. F2. Ilay then, thac to hare lacus si Subltances, nhich, by beino
  38. contorabile to Things, may aftord us real Rnowledse, it is notenous,
  39. as in MIodes, toput togecher such Ideas as hraveno inconsictener, thouxH
  40. they did never belore lo exilt. V. 8. the Ideas of Sacrilese or Perjury, (5c
  41. vereas real and true Ldeas Delore, as aster the existence of any such Pact.
  42. Duc our Ideas of Substances beine supposed Copies, and reterred to Arche.
  43. erpes rithout us, must still be taken from somethine that does or has exi-
  44. sed; thes mul not consist ol Ideas pur together at the pleasure of our
  45. Thougtrs, withour ans real parter thes avere taleen trom, though e
  46. can perceire no inconsiltence in sueh a Combination. The realon irhere.
  47. OE is. Decause we knoins not what real Constitution it is os substances,
  48. erhereou our simple ideas depend, and whieh really is the caule ot the
  49. Strict union oFlome olthem onc ich another, and theexelusion oF others;
  50. chereare verr sew ofthem thacire can De sure are or are not inconsictent
  51. in Bacure, any Carther than Experience and sen sible Observation reaches.
  52. Herein therelore is Counded the realiis olour kinom ledse concernins sub.
  53. Sances, tlat all our complex Ideas otthem mult be such, and such onty
  54. as are made up ot such simple ones, as hare been discorered to co. exist in
  55. Nature. And our Ldeas beivs chustrue, choush not, perhaps, very exact
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 285. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0301?run=74