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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 306

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  1. Maxims
  2. 5. 27. Seconaly, Another thac hath gone Farcher in traming and col-
  3. lecting ehe Fdca he callS Man, and to the outmard Strape acds L. aughter
  4. and rarional Dilcourle, mas demonstrare, char Intants and Changelings
  5. are no Bten, by this Maxim, Lt is impossible for thesame Thine tobe, and
  6. not tobe: And Thave diseoursed with verr rational Men Wrho have
  7. actually denied that thez are Men.
  8. 5. 28. Thiraly Perhaps, another matses us the complex idea which
  9. he calls Man- onty one of the Ldeas ot Body in general, and the POVerS
  10. Os Languase and Realon, and lcares out che Strape Wholly: This Man
  11. is able to demonstrate, that a Man mas have nottands, but De Zuadrupes
  12. neither ot those beins included in his Idea ol Man; and in whatever
  13. Body or Strape he Found Specch and Reason join d, that was a Man: De
  14. cause havins a clear hnorledse oF such a complex Idea, it is certain, that
  15. INat 15, 15.
  16. 5. 19. Sothac, ilristuly considered, Pchink we may lar; that where our
  17. Ldeas are clear and distinct, and rhe WTames acreed on, that Mhall Ctand for
  18. cach elear and discinet Idea thereis little necd, or no ule at allof theseMa-
  19. xims, toprore the agreement, or dilagreement ot, any ofthem. FIC thac
  20. cannoc discern ehe Fruth or Falshood ot such Propolitions, without the
  21. help of chese, and the lihe Maxims, will not be helped by chele Maxims
  22. eo doic: Tince hecannot be suppoled io no the Truth ot thele Ma-
  23. ximsthemselves ichout proot, it he cannor lnom the Fruth ol others
  24. Withorit proot, rhichare as selfevident as chele. Andupon the veir
  25. Came grounds, intuitire Knomledse neither requires nor admirs ans proct,
  26. onc part ot it more than another: Fre that will suppose it, docs take avay
  27. the foundation of allunoledge, and Certaints: And he that necds any
  28. proot eo malce him certain, and sive his Asent to this Propolitions that
  29. Trro is equal eo Tvo, will alsohave necd of a proot to malce him admit,
  30. that What i5, i5. HIe that necds a probation to convince him, that Two
  31. is not Threo, that White is nor Blacke, that a Triansle is not a Circle, (5c.
  32. or ans other to elear distinet Ideas are not one and the lame, rillneed
  33. also a demonstrarion to convince him, chat it is impossible for the same
  34. Thine t0 be, and not to be.
  35. 5. 20. Andas thele Maxims are of little use, prhere e have clear and
  36. dictinat Ideas, (o they are, 25 Thare Meved, oF dangerous ule, irhere
  37. our Ideas are nor elear and dittinet; and where we ule Words that are
  38. not annexed ro clear and distinet Ideas, but to fuehr as arc oF a loole and
  39. anderins signitication, Tometimes Candins Forone, and lomerimes for
  40. another Idea; trom wrhrich follons miltatre and errour, Which these Ma-
  41. Xims (brousht as. Proots to chablist Propolirions, Wherein the terms
  42. Rand for contused or uncertain Ideas) doby their Authorits contirmand
  43. rivet.
  44. BC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 306. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0322?run=74