An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 329
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- Chap. LLILL. Constuerations concerning our lnoiledee
- and Consequences, as truch as he pleases, he ill by cheir ASictence, L
- suppose, scarce ever corne to know thac che square ot the FTyporienculon
- in a right ansled Triansle, is equal to the squares of the tro ocher sides.
- The RnoWledge, chac the Whole is equal to aIL iEs ParES, and is rou tale
- Equal from F. qual, the remainder will De Equal, (Sc. helped him not,
- prelume, to chis Demonstration: And a Man may, Lchink, pore lOne
- enourh on chose Axioms, without ever secing one jor themore of mathe.
- matical Truchs. Ther. have been discovered by ehe Thoughes otlervays
- applicd: The Nind hac orter OEjests, other Viens betore it, tar ditte.
- rent trom chole Maxims, Wrhen ic tirst sot the Hnom ledse ot luch kind oF
- Fruchs in Machemarieks, Which Men Well enouxh acquainted with those
- received Axioms, but ignorant oF their Mechod, Who tirst madle thele De-
- moystrarions, can never sufficiently admire. And NHO LNOWS NHaE MC-
- thocs mar hereatter be found out to entarse our Rnomledge in octier
- Things, as Well as chat oF alsebra in Mathemaricks, Wrtich so readils
- Cncs out Ideas oF Duantities ro mealure others by, Wwhose Rquality or Pro-
- portion re could ocherrite very hardly, or, Perhaps, never come to
- LEnOW.
- 8. 2.C
- CH A C. XIII.
- Some farcher Consuderations concernins our Lnomledee.
- Ur Rnooledse, as in other Thinss, Co in this, has a great Con-
- formity ich our Siete, chat it 15 neither wholly necessary, nor
- wtolly voluntary. IE our Knou ledse vere altogether neceltary, all NenS
- Rnomledse ould noc only bealilce, bur every Man iould kno aIl that
- is Brorable; and if it evere rholly voluncary, some Nen (0 lictle regard
- or value it, that ther mould have extreme little, or nonc at aII. Nen
- that have senles, cannor chuse bur receive lome Ideas by them; and it
- tler have Memory, they cannor but retain lome ot them; and it
- they have any distinguisring Faculer, cannot bur perceive the Agreement,
- or Dilaoreement of lome of themone with anocher: AS hechat has LYes,
- it he will oven ehem by daz, cannot but sec lome Objecs, and perceire a
- difference in them. Bur though a Man with his Fses open in thc Lisht,
- cannot but lec: vet there be certain Objecto, rhich he mar chuse rhe-
- ther he will turn his fires to; there mas be in his reach a Book contai-
- nins rictures, and Discourses, capable to delighe, or instruct him, ertieh
- vec he may never have the Will to open, never tatre the Pains to
- looH intO.
- 8. 2. Fhere is allo another thins in a Mans Pouer, andchat is, thoueh
- tie turn his Eyes sometimes torards an Object, set he may chuse Whether
- he willincently surves it, and with an accurare scarehi, endeavour eo ob
- serre all thac is vilible in it. But yet What he does sec, he cannot lec
- ocherrise chan he does: It depends noc on his Will to sec that Blactes
- erhrich appears Vellor; nor to persuade himsele, thac erhat actually
- Scalds him, scels cold: The Farth rill noc appear painted with EIOWeFS,
- nor the Fields covered with Verdure, whenever he hasa Mindroit; inthe
- cold Wincer, he cannor help secins it white and hoary, it he will look
- abroad. Tult thus is ic with our Onderstandins, all that is voluntary in
- oux Rnomledoe, is the emplorine, or wich holdins any ol our Faculties
- trom chis ortlat (ort Oi Obiects, and a more, or lels accurare surver et
- Them.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 329. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0345?run=74