An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 318
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- 8 nomledze of Fxistence of other Thines. B00k L
- Mind, thac chinkins Thins wichin rou, do nordeem it RransC, that You
- cannot comprehend the Operations ol chat eternal insinite Mind, Who
- made and govers all Things, and whomthe Licaven ol LICaVENS CAnNOE
- contain.
- d. T.
- CII A P. XI.
- Of our Rnomledge of che Fxistence of ocher Things.
- He Knomledse ot our omn Being, e have by intuition. Zhe
- Existence ot a COD, Realon clearly makes knon to uS, 25
- has been Mewn.
- The Knouledse of the Fxistence of any other thine, we can have onty by
- Sensation: For chere beins no necestary connexion ot real Exiltence,
- vich anv Ideaa Nan hath in his Memorr, nor et any ocher Existence
- Butthat ot GOD, With the Existenee ot anr particular Man; no parti-
- cular Man can lnow the Lxiltence otany other Being, but ontr irhen br
- actual operatins uponhum, it malies it selt perceived by him. For the
- havins ehe Idea otans thins in ourMind, no more proves che Fxistence
- OF chat Thins, than the victure oF a Man evidences his beins in the
- Worid, Or the Vilions oF a Dream malee thierebr a true Hictory.
- 9. 2.Fis theretore the actual receivins ot Ideas trom wichour, thac
- sives us notice ofthe Exiltence ol orher Thines, and matces us Hnon,
- that Comethine doth exist at thar time ithout us, irtrich causes that
- Idea in us, though perhaps e neither bnom nor consider hor it docs it:
- For it tales nor trom the certainty of our Senses, aud the Ideas We re-
- ceive by them, that re lnom not themanner erherein ther are produ-
- ced: v. 8. Whilt Perite this, Phare, by the Paper affectins my Ey es, that
- Idea produced in my Mind; Wrhrch whacever Object caules, lcallirhite;
- Oy WrhichIbno, that that Dualier or Accirlent (i. c. evhose appearance
- Betore my Fyes, alvays causes that Laea) doth really exist, and hatha
- Beins ithout me. And ot this, the greatest asturance I can possibly
- have, and to which my Faculties can actain, is che Testimons ot my
- Fyes, Which are che prover and sole Fudses oFchisthing, and whose Te-
- simons Thare reason ro rels on, a5(o certain, chat I can no more doube,
- WrhilstP urire chis, that Isec Whitc and Black, and chat Comething really
- exists, that causes that senlation in me, than chat I vrite or move my
- FTand; erhich is a Certainty a5 great, as humane Nature is capable ot,
- concernins the Existence oFans Thins, bur a Mars sel alone, and of
- GOD
- S. 3. The notice ve have by our Senses, of the existing of Thines witbout
- us, though it be not altogether so certain, as our intuitive Rnowledoe, or
- che Deductions of our Reason, employ d’about the clear abstract Ideas ot
- our oirn Minds; vet it is an allurarice thar deserves the name of Rnou-
- ledee, it re perluade our selves, that our Faculties aet and intorm us
- riohe, concerning the exiltence of those Objectsthat affect them, it can-
- noc pass tor an ill. srounded contidence. For L think nobodr con, in car-
- nest, De (0 sceptical, as tobe uncertain of the Exiltence of thole Thinos
- hesces and Fecls. AF lcalt, he thar can donbt so tar, (phatever he mey
- have ith his own Thouelits) will never have any Controverlies wich
- me; since he can never be sure Y say ars chins contrars to tis. Opinion.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 318. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0334?run=74