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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 330

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  1. Fudoment.
  2. BOOKIV
  3. fiem: But ther being emplored, our W ill hath no Pover 10 determine
  4. The Rnovledee of the Mind one az or other; that is done only by the
  5. Obiects chemselres, as tar as ther are eleariy discovered. And cheretore,
  6. 25 far asens Senlesare conversant abour external Objects, theMind can.
  7. norbutreceirethole Ideas, Which are presented by them, and be informed ot
  8. the Existence oF Things without: and (0 far as Men sPhoughes converse
  9. With cheir own clear and distinct Ldeas, they cannot but, in Pome mea-
  10. ture, obserre the doreement, and Dilagreement thatis to be Found amongst
  11. fome oF them, Wrhich is so far Knomledse: and il they have Names Forthose
  12. Ideas, ther have thusconsidered, they must needs De altured ofthe Frurk
  13. ofthose Proxosirions, Which express that Agreement, or Dilazreement cher
  14. perceive inthem, and be undouorecly convinced oF those TrutHS. FOr
  15. Wrhat a Man sces, he cannor but sec; and wrhat he perccires, he CannOE
  16. but know that hie perceives.
  17. 5. 3. Thus he chat has gor the Ideas of Numbers, and hach tatien the
  18. Pains to compare One, Livo, and Three, t0 Six, cannor chuse but lnor
  19. that they are equal: ITe that hath gor the Idea oF a Friangle, and
  20. Found the wars to measure is Aneles, and their Magnitudes, is ascertain
  21. chatitschree Angles are equal to two righe ones; as that it is impollible
  22. For the lame tobe, and nOt to bC.
  23. FPeallo that haththe Idea oF an intelligent, but trail and weale Beinso
  24. made by and depending on another, Whio is eternal, omnipotent, per-
  25. fectly rise and sood, Wrill as cerrainls lnor that Wan is to honour,
  26. Pear, and ober Gigd,as thatthe sun ines Wrhen he sces it. For if he hathbut
  27. the Ideas oftvo such Beings in his Mind, and will cuen his Thouonts
  28. thar var, and consider them, He will as cerrainty find chat the Inferior.
  29. Finire, and Dependent, is under an Obligation to ober the Supreme and
  30. Intinite, as he is certain to find, that Three, Five, and Seven, are les5
  31. than Fifteen, iF he Will consider, and compure those Numbers; nOr can
  32. tie be surer in a clear Norninq chat the sun isrisen, it he viil BUE OpeH
  33. hiS FreS, and turn them that Way. But Vet thele TrutHS, Being never
  34. L0 certain, never (0 clear, he may be ignorant of either, or all ot FHCM,
  35. Wrto will never tale the Pains toemplos hisFaculcies, a5 he Mould, toin-
  36. Torm limsels abour chem.
  37. 8. F. =
  38. II A P. Z
  39. Ot fudement.
  40. FFF Onderstanding Faculties beines siven to Man, not barely
  41. for Speculation, but alo tor ie Conauet ot sis Lite, Man
  42. re have lcen, he vould be olten ucteris in the dark, aud i Moit ol ine
  43. Actions ot lis lite, pertectlr ac a ltana, hac he nochine 1o eulde MM In
  44. the absence O escat asses cecu ledse. For he that rill noc eat, rill
  45. he has Demonltration chat ic Will nourilli lum; he chat Will not itir, till
  46. heintalliblr bons ne Bumershe soes about rill succced, ill have lictle
  47. rould b0 at a great IOIS, I LD LIAI HOLMIME WO MITCCLMMIM BuE WhaE has
  48. the Cextaintr ol true Anouledee: For that beins very Mort and lcants, a5
  49. else D do, BuE Sit Ctist aBa peritt.
  50. 5. 2. Theretore as God has set lome Thinos in brond da) I, as
  51. a e us o Cercat elleC, houe timied 10 a ler Zhims

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 330. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0346?run=74