An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 331
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- in comparison, probablr, 25 a Faste of hat intellectual Creatures are ca
- pable ot, to excite in us a Desire and Fndeavour aster a better StatC: S0
- in the greatest part ot our Concernmene, he has affordod us onlr the tvi-
- liohF, as IMaY (O PaY, OF Probabilier, Suirable, I presume, FOxtat Stare oF
- Medioerity ane Probationerhip, he has been plealed to place in us here;
- rherein we mishEnot be over consiclent, and presume; but migHE bY e.
- verr das sExperience be made sensible of our Morr-Sighrecness and liable.
- nels FOFrror; Which might be a constant Admonition tO us, to spend the
- dazs olchis our Pilsrimase with Indultry and Care, inthe scarch, and F0)-
- lorrins oF chat ay, irhich mighe lead usto a State ot greater Persection.
- Tebeiro hiohr rational to think, evenwhere Revelation issilene in the Case
- That as Men etploy those Palenes, Cod has siven them, here, thex MalI
- accordinely receive their Retards at the close oF che day, Wen their Sun
- MalL ser, ane Nighe Mail put an end to their Labours.
- 5. 3. The FaCuIH, Which God has given Ntan co enligheen him, neNL 10
- clear and certain Hnomledoe, is Fudement: Whereby the Mind talies its.
- Ideas toagrec, or disagree; or ertrich is the lame, any Proposition to De
- eruez or false, without perceirive a demonstrarire Fvidence in the ProolS.
- The Mind sometimes exerciles this Judoment out ot necessity, ihere de-
- rionstrative Proots, and certain Hnovledoe are not to be had; and lome
- times out of Laxinels, CInssilsulness, or HTaste, even irhere demonstrative
- and certain Prools are to behad. Men olten staz noc varily to examine
- the Aoreement or Dilagreement or tro Ldeas, ertrich they are delirous,
- or concerned to lto; bur cicher incapable ot sueh Atrention, as is re-
- quisite in a lons Train oE Cractations, or impatient of delay, lighelr sur-
- ver, or ertrolly pals over the Proofs; and so without malrine out the
- Demonstrarion, determine olthe Agreement or Dilaereement ot two Ldeas,
- as it vere by a vier oPthem, as thez are at a distance, and tatse it tobe the
- one or the orher, 2s scems most likely to them upon sucha loose lurver.
- This Faculer os the Minc, wrhen ic is exerciled immediatels about Things,
- is called fudement; Wtien about Fruths delivered in Nords, is most com-
- monly called Asent or Dissent: Wtrich beins themost usual waz, erhere.
- in the Mind has occalion to emplo this Faculey, L Mall under these Perms
- treat oF it, as lealt liable in our Languase to F. quivocarion
- 6. 4. Thus che Mind has tuo Faculcies, converlant about Fruch ane
- Falsood.
- First, Knomledse, Whereby it certainly perceires, and is unloubredly
- Patistied of the Aoreement or Disagreement ot any Ideas.
- Secondly. Fudsment, which is the purrine Ideas tosether, or separa-
- tins ehem trom one another in the Miind, Wrtien their certain AOreement,
- or Dilaoreement is not perceived, Dut presume d to be (0; Wtriehis, 25 the
- Wordimporis, talren to be lo vetore it certaintr appears. And if it (0
- unires, or sexarares chem, as in Realiry Fhines are, il is rietc Fudement.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 331. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0347?run=74