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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 291

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  1. Truth in general.
  2. more than the contormiti oF Nords, io the Chimaeras oF MenS Brains.
  3. WVhoknos nor what odd Notions matis Mens Heads are tulld ich.
  4. and whac stranse Ldeas allMen s Brains are capable oP: But il we rest
  5. here, We knor the Truch ol nochins by this hule, buc ot the vilionari
  6. Worid in our oun maginations; nor have ocher Truih, but irtrat as
  7. much concerns FTarpies anid Centaurs, as Nen andITorles. For thole
  8. and the lite, may be Ldeas in our Feads, arid hare their agreement and
  9. disagreement there, a5 well as the Ideas oF real Beings, ard (0 have a5
  10. erue Propositions made about them. And twill be altogether as true à
  11. Propolition, 10 lay all Centaurs are Animals, as thar all Men are Animals?
  12. and the certainty oF one, as great as the other. For in BotH the PrOPOLI-
  13. tions, the Nords are put torether accordine to the aprecinerie ol the
  14. ideas in our Minds: And che aereement of the Idea oF Animal, victi
  15. ThaF OF CentaUE, is as clear and visible to the Mind, as the agreemene ot
  16. ehe Idea oF Animal, with thac oF Man; and (0 chese eiro Propolirions
  17. are equally true, equally certain. But oF what ule is all sucti Truct
  18. TOuS.
  19. 5. 8. Thouxu whae has Been said in che fore Coine Chapter, to sistin-
  20. suim real from imaginarr Rnomledse, mighe lussuce here, in arisiver to
  21. this Doubt, to distinsuis real Fruch trom chimerical, or (il vou pleale,
  22. barely nominal, thes dependins boch on thelame Foundation; vet il may
  23. not beamisshere again ro consider, that though our Words signitie no
  24. thins but our Ideas, re beins deligned by eliem to Cisnitie Thines, che
  25. Truth chey contain, irtien rue into Propolitions, ill be only Verbal;
  26. When chey stand Cor Ideas in themind, chat have not an agicement ricti
  27. the realier of Thines. And theretore Truch, as vell as Hnomledee, may
  28. ell come under the distinction of Verbal and Real; chat beiris only ver-
  29. bol Truch Wherein Terms are joined, accordins to the agreement or dil
  30. agreement of the Ideas they Band for, ithout resardins Wvhiether our
  31. Ideas are such as reals have, orare capable ot having an Fxstenco in Na-
  32. ture. But then it isthey contain real Truth, Wrhen thele sions are ioined
  33. as our Fdeas agrec, and Wrhen our Ldeas are such, as re lenor are capable
  34. oFhaving an Fxiltence in Nature; Whichi in Substances e cannot bnou
  35. buc by bnomins chac such have existed.
  36. 5. 9. Truth isthe markins donn in Wrords, the agreement or dilicree
  37. iment oI Ldeas asitis. S’alstoodis the markine donn in Nords, the acree
  38. ent or dilacreement of Ideas ocherrise than it is. And so tar as chesé
  39. Ideas, thus martred by Sounds, agreo to cheir Archerres, (0 tar only is
  40. the Truth real. Thebnomledse ofchis Truch, consilts in bnovino wrhat
  41. Ideas the Words Cand for, and the perception ot the agreement or dil-
  42. nereement oFchole Ideas, accordins as it is marked by these Words.
  43. 5. 20. Burbecause Words are loolced on as the great Conduits of Frutt
  44. and Rnomledge, and that in converins and reccirins of Truth, andcom
  45. monly in realonins about it, e matce ule of NVords and Propoliions, V
  46. alI ore at larse enquire, Wherein the certainei ot real Truitus, contai
  47. ned in Propolitions, consilts, and where it is to behad; and endeavour
  48. to Meu in Wrhat sort ol unirersal Propolitions re are capable ot beins cer
  49. tain ofcheir real Pruth, or Falthood.
  50. Mall begin wich general Propoluions, as thiole wrtcti most eniploy
  51. oux Thouphes, and exercile our Contemplarioni. Ceneral Truchsare most
  52. Jooked alter by the Mind, as thole thac molt enlarse our unomledses
  53. and by cheir comprehensivenels, lacissyins us at once ot many partieulars,
  54. enlaroe our vier, and Morren our ray conomledse.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 291. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0307?run=74