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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 300

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  1. Maxims.
  2. Every one chat has any Rnowledee ac all, has, 25 the. Tourdarion oF. it,
  3. various and distinet ideas: And it is the frst act ot the Mind, (wictr.
  4. out irtrich, it can never be capable ol any Rnomledsc,) to linom
  5. everr one oF irs Ideas by it Celt, and distinguishr it trom ochers. This is tMat
  6. erhich every one tinds in himselt, chat the Ideas he hashe knors; heknois
  7. also irhen anx one is in his Inderttandins, and erhat it is: And When
  8. more than onc are there, heknorsthem distinctly and unconsulecly one
  9. trom another: Which alvays beins (0, (it beins impossible buc chat he
  10. Tould perceire erhat he perceires,) he cari never be in doube irhren aur
  11. Idea is in his Mind, that it is there, and is that Idea it is; and FhaL EVO
  12. distinct Ideas, wrtren elies are in his Mind, are there, and are nor one
  13. aud the same Idea. S0 that all such AParmations, and Negations, are
  14. made ichout ans postibilitr oF doubr, uncertaintr, or helitation, and
  15. must necessarils be assented to, as soon as understood; chat is, as loon as
  16. e have, in our Mincs, the Ideas elcar and diltinct, whuch the Termsin
  17. the Propolition Cand For. It is not therelore alone to thele tro general
  18. Propoltions, Whatsoever i5, i5; and, It is impossible for the same Thine to
  19. be, and not eo be, that this Selfevidence belones by any peculiar riglt.
  20. The perception ot beino, or not beine, belonos no more no thele raoue
  21. Ideas, Cgnihed By cheterms hatsoever, and Thing, than it doesto any
  22. Other Ideas. The Mind, without the help ot any proot, perceires as
  23. cleariy, and bnos as certainty, that the Idea otWrhire, is the Idea oE
  24. Wrhire, and not the idea oF Blue; and thac che idea ot Whice, Wrhen it
  25. is in the Mind is there, and is not absent; and (0 a Triangle, Motion, a
  26. Man- or any other Ldeas Whratloever. Sothat in relpect of Identiry, our
  27. intuirive Rnomledse reaches as Par as our Pdeas: And so ve are capable
  28. oFmaking as many selF evident Propolitions, as re have names for, di
  29. sinct Ideas. And Iappeal to ever ones omn Mind, Whether this Pro-
  30. Dolition, ACircle is a Circle, De nOE aS SelF evident a Propolition, a5 that
  31. consistins oF more general terms, Whatsoever i5, i5: And again, Whether
  32. this Proposition, Blue is not Red, DC nOL a Propolition that thoMind
  33. can no more doube os, as soon as it understands che Nords, than it does
  34. otthat Axiom, Et is impossible for the same thine robe, and not zo be: and
  35. P0 OF all tho like.
  36. 6. 5. Seconcly, AStO Corexistence, or such a necessary connexion be-
  37. treen tro Fdeas, that in che Subjeet erhere one of them is supposcd,
  38. there the ocher must recessarils Dcalso: OP such aereement, or disagree.
  39. ment as this, the Mind has an immediate perception but in very sew ot
  40. them. And cherelore in this Pore, we have buc very liccle intuitive
  41. Hnomledse: nor are there to be found verr mans Propolitions chat are
  42. settevident, thouch some there aro; 2. 5. The Idea ot Alling ot a place
  43. equal tO the COntenES OF its superticies, being annexed to our Ldea of BodY,
  44. IThinls it is a sell. erident Propolition, That tuo Bodies cannot be in the
  45. same place.
  46. 66 Tpiralr, AS Eo the Relations et Modes, Mlathematicians have
  47. Framed many Arioms concerninq that one Relation et Equalier. AS
  48. Equals talcen trom Fquals, the remainder will be Equals; irhich, Witt
  49. the rest ol that bind, horrever thes are receired for Maxims by theMa-
  50. chemaricians, and are unqueltionable TrutHs; vet, I Think, that anr one
  51. ertio considers them, rill not find, that thes have a clearer selF evidence
  52. than thele, that one and onc, are equal to two; that il rou talse From ehe
  53. tive Fingers et onc eland trro, and trom the tive Fingers ot enc orter
  54. Farl tiro, the remainins number will beequal. Thele, and a thouland
  55. ortier tuct Proxolirions mas be Lourd in Nuribess, uhich, ut very sust her
  56. rinS.
  57. BC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 300. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0316?run=74