An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 323
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- P. XTI. Improument ot our Lnomledoe
- exist: Wincu Cetcatis Ot ileh general Provositions, depends on the
- AErcement or Dilasreement is to be discorered in thole abltract Ideas.
- 8. c4. In the former cale, our Rno ledse is the consequence ot the
- Fxictence oI Thines proctucins Ldeas in our Minds by our senses; in
- thelatter, Knomledse is the consequence of the Ideas Fhat are in our
- Minds wrharsoerer ther are, and produce general certain Propolitions,
- mans whereosare called aeternae veritares; and are indeed (o, not trom
- beins uritten in che Minds oF all. Men, or that they vere betore thc
- World: But wherelderer vre can suppole sueh a Creature a5 Man iS Cn-
- dored rith such Faculties, and cherebr Curnihied Wich such Ideas aS We
- have, re must conclude he must nceds, when he applies his Thoushtsto
- che conciderarion ot his ideas, hnor che Pruch os cerrain Propolitions
- thac Will arise trom the Acreement, or Dilasreement, he will perceive
- amonsthem. For Names beins luproled to cand perpecually tor che
- samme ideas; aud che lame Ldeas havins immutabls che lame Elabicudes
- onc toanother, Propoliions, concermins any abtraet ideas haE are OnCC
- erue, must necds be eternal Verities.
- I
- 21 11 1. 2
- Of the Improvement of our Rnouledee
- 5. F. PT havins been the common received Opinion amonest Men ol
- LCcterS, thac Maxims vere the Foundations ol aIl Rnomledge;
- and that the Sciences ere cach ofthem buile upon certain praecoenita,
- From whence the Inderstandine as to take its rile, and by erhrich it as
- to conduet it selt, in its enquiries into the matters belonsins to that
- Science, the beaten road of the Schools, has been to lar domn in the becin-
- mino, onc or more general Propositions, as Foundations whereon to build
- theFnomledge as to be had ofthat Subject. Thele Doctrines thus laid
- dorrn For Foundations of any science, vere called Principles, 25 tHe Be-
- ginminss trom rhich e must set out, and look no Parcher backemards in
- our Enguiries, but calse theso tor cerrain and unquestionable Fruths, and
- Cctablistied Principles.
- 5. 2. That which save occasion eo this way of proccedine in other
- Sciences, Was (a5 I supvose) the good success il scemed to have in Mathe
- maricts, rherein Men, beins observed to actain a great certaintr ot
- Knowledoe, thele Sciences came by pre-eminence to be called mabmpara,
- and mabnors, Learnins, or thines learni d, throushly learn d, as havine ot
- allother the grearest certainty, clearnels, and cvidence in them.
- 8. 3. BucH ass c Will consider, he Wil (lguels) tind, that the ereat
- advancement and certaints of reat Anouledee Nen arrived to in thele
- Sciences, as not omine tothe intluence of their Principles, nor derived
- From any reculiar advantase they reccived trom trro or threc generat
- Nlaxims laid donn in the besinnins; but fromthe clear, distinct, compleat
- Ideas their Phoustus ere employ d about, and the relation of Fqualier
- and Excels so elear betreen some ol them, thac cher had an intuitire
- Rnowledse, and by chac a ay to diseover it in others, an chis Without
- the helr ol chose Maxims. For Laste, Is it not postible for a roung Lad to
- Hnow, that his wrhole Body is bisser than his licele Finger, bur by vircue
- OEchis Aniom, chac chentiole is bies er chan a part; nor be asturec ot it,
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 323. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0339?run=74