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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 290

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  1. ruth in Erioo.
  2. BookIV
  3. common Wordsoltheir Languase, yet verhaps never troubled chemselves
  4. in all cheir Lives, to consider irhat precise Ideas the most of them Aood
  5. For: Some consuled or obleure Notions have serrec Meir turns; and ma-
  6. ny who talle very much oF Religion and Conscienco, oi Church and FaitH,
  7. ot Porver and Rishr, of Obstructions and Hlumours, Melancholi ard
  8. Choler, Wouid, perhaps, have licele lese in their Thoughs and Medita-
  9. tions, it one tould desire them to think only of che Things themselves,
  10. and lay by thole Words, with irhich they (o often contound otters, and
  11. not seldom themlelres al(o.
  12. 5. 5. But toreturn to the consideration of Frurt. We uC, IFaV, ct-
  13. serve ro Corrs oE Propoliions, that we are capable ol matins.
  14. First, Mental, Wherein the Ideas in our Inderstandines are Withour
  15. the use oF Words put rocether, or separatest by the Mind, perceivins, Or
  16. judsins ocheir AEreement, or Dilagreement.
  17. Seconaly; Verbat Propositions, ertrichare Nords the lions otour Idcas
  18. put tosether or separate d in afirmative or necative Sentences. By Wtick
  19. ar et aftirmine or denzino, chese Signs, macle Dy Sounds, are as it Were,
  20. Dur togetheror separated onc trom another. So that Propolition contilts
  21. in joinins, or separatins Signs; ard Truth consists in the puriins toge-
  22. cher, or separatins thele Signs, accordins a5 the Thinss chey stand Tor
  23. doree or disagree.
  24. 6. 6. Fverr ones Experience will Parissie him, thac the Mind, cither By
  25. perceivins or suppolins the Agreement or Dilagreement oE any oE iIs
  26. Ideas, does tacitti within it self put ehem into a bind ot Propolition
  27. attirmatire or negatire, Which I have endeavoured to express by the
  28. terms Putrins rogether and Separating. Bur ehis Action oF the Mind,
  29. erhrich is (0 Farmiliar to every chintins and realonins Man, is calier tolc
  30. conceired by reflecting on irhrat passes in us, hen we reason judec, or sup-
  31. Dole, than to be explained by Words. Whena Manhas in hisMind che Ldea
  32. Ot tro Lines, viz. the side and Diagonal ot a Square, erhereot the Diago-
  33. nalis an Inch lons, hemay have the Idea also ofthe divition of thatLine,
  34. into a certain number ot equal parts; 2. 9. into Five, Ten, an IIundrec,
  35. a Thouland, or any other Number, and mar have the dea ot that Inch
  36. Line, beins divisible or Bot divisible, into sucM equal ParES, a5 a certain
  37. nuriber of them illbe equal to the Side line. Nor Wvhenerer he per-
  38. ceives, velieres, or suppoles such a kind ot Divisibility to aorec or dil-
  39. dgree to his Idea oF chat Line, he, as ie ere, joins or separates those
  40. tVo Ideas, viz. thC Idea OFthat Line, and the Idea oF cHat hind oF Di-
  41. visibilier, and so matres a mental Proposition, ertrich is erue orfalse, ac-
  42. cordins as such a lind of Dirilibility, a Dirilibility into such ali-
  43. quot parts, docs reals) acree to that Linc, or no: And when Ideas are
  44. (o puttosether, or separated in the Mind, as they or the Thines they
  45. Atand For doacree, or nOc, that is, 25 I may caIl it, mental Truth. But
  46. Truch of Words is Comething more, and that is the aftirmins or denvins
  47. ot Words one of anocher, as the Ideas they Aand For agree or dilaoree:
  48. And this again is is trotold, cither purely Verbal, and tristino, wtricHY
  49. Mall Speak OF, Chap. FO. or Reat and instructive; Which is che Object ol
  50. thatreal Knomledge, Wrhich ve hare spoten ot already.
  51. 5.7. Buc here again rill be apt to occurr the lame doubr about Truth.
  52. that did about Knomledoe: And it ill be objected, That it Fruth be no-
  53. thing but the joinins or separatins oF Nords in Propolitions, as the ideas
  54. ther Aand for aeree or disagree in Mens Mind, the Hnomledse oF Zruth
  55. 15 not so valuable a Thinc, a5 it is taken to be; nor Worth the Pains and
  56. Time Men imploy in the leareh oFit: Sir ce by ihis accouns, iE BOUNES LO RO
  57. MOTE

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 290. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0306?run=74