An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 292
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- Onivers at Propos
- BOOKV
- D. LT. Besides Trur CaHCH MMthe Arict sense betore mentioned chere
- areothet seres e Lru, do T. Moral Truth, Wrhich is speakins Things
- accordins ro the perluation of our orn Minds, though the Propolition ne
- Speak agrec nottothe realier of ThingS. 2. Metaphysical Truth, Wtict i5
- nochins but the real Pxistence of Phings, contorimable to the Ideas LO
- Wvhrich rehare annexed theirplames. This, thouoh it scems to consist
- in thevery Beings of Things, vet Wrhen considered a little neartr, ill
- appear to include a tacit Propolition, Whereby the Mind joins that parri-
- cular Thine, to the Idea it had betore setledrith a name to it. Bur these
- Considerations of Fruch, cither having been betore talten notice ot, Or
- noc beins much to our present purpose, it mas sustice here only to hare
- mentioned thci.
- OfUntbusat Lropdiaiio, their Truth and Certaincy.
- Houeh the examinns and judgins ot Sdeas By themlelves
- their Names beins quire laidalide, Berhe best and Curest way
- eo clear and diltinet hnomledse: Vet through the prevailine custom ot
- ulns Sounds for Ideas, Ichink it is very seldom practised; and every onc
- may obserre hor common it is tor Names to bemade ule of, instead of
- the Ldeas themselres, even when Men chink and reason within cheir ovn
- Brealts; especialls itithe Ldeas be very complex, and made ux of a great
- Collection oF simple ones. This mates the consideration of Words and
- Propositions, (0 necessary a part of ihe Treatise of Knomledee, thactis
- verr hard to speak intelligiblr oF the one, withont explainins the other.
- 8. 2. AUchehnomledse rehave, beins onls ot particular or general
- Truths, tiserident, that vhatever may be done in the former ofthele,
- tho latter, rrhich is that which wich Reason is most Coueht alter, can never
- bervellmade known, and is very seldom apprehended, but as conceived
- and expressed in Wrords. It is not therefore out of our waf, inthe Fxami-
- nation of ourHnomledge, to enquire into the Truch and Certainty oluni
- verlal Propositions.
- 8. 3. But chat e may nor be mit led in this case, by chat which is the
- danger every. Where, Imean by the doubetulnels oF Terrs, tis AE to ob.
- serve, that Certainty is trosold; Cerrainty of Trurh, and Certainty of
- sxouledee. Cerrainty oF Truth is, When Nords are s0 put togetter in
- Propolirions, as exactlr to express the cereement or disaereement ot the
- Tdeas they stand For, as reallz it is: Certaints of Hnowledse, is t0 per.
- Ccive the agreement or disagreement oF Ideas, as expressed in any Propo-
- Sition. This e ulualls calllnorins, or beins certain olthe Truth of any
- Provolition.
- 5. 4. Vou becaule ve cannot be certain of the Truch of any generat Pro-
- position; untess ve tenou the precise bonnds and extent of the Species its
- Termsstand for, it is necessary e Mould Hnow the FPence ol cach Species.
- rhich is chat which constitures and bounds it. This, in all simple Ideas
- and Modes, is not hardto do: For in thele, the real and nominal L. Pence
- beins the same; or, Which is allone, the abstraet Idea, the general Term
- Rands For, beine the sole Fllenco and boundarr, that is or can De suppoled,
- Otthe Species, there can. be no doube ho tar the Species extends, or
- Wrhat Thines are comprehended under cach Term; which, tis evident,
- AsC
- d. Y
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 292. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0308?run=74