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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 342

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  1. Reaioi
  2. and tic Order, to makce their Connexion and Force be plainly and casily
  3. perceired; the chird is the perceiring their connexion; and the fourth,
  4. the matins a rishe conclusion. Thele severai degrees maz lo observed
  5. in any rmathematical Demonstration: it being one thine to perceive the
  6. connexion of each part, as the Demonstrarion is made by anoctier; another
  7. to perceire the dependence ofthe conclusion on aIl the parts; a third eo
  8. makce out a Demonstration cleariy and neatly ones selt, and lomethins
  9. difterent trom all chese, to hare tirst Found out those intermediate Ideas
  10. Or Proots by irhich it is made.
  11. 8. 4. Fhere is one thing more, wrtrich P. Mall desire to be considered
  12. concernins ReaIon; and chatis, Wherter Syllocism, as is generalls thought,
  13. Betheproper instrument ot it, and che uletussest as ot exercilins chis
  14. Faculer. The Causesthave to doubt, are thele:
  15. First, Because Syllosilm serres our Reason, but in onc onty olthefore-
  16. mentioned parts oFic; and chat is, to Bhem the connexion oFthe Proots
  17. in ans onc instance, and no more: but in this, it is olno great ule, since
  18. themindcan perceire such connexion rhere ic really is, 25 casily, Day,
  19. verhaps, becter vithout it.
  20. TEve will obserre the Actingsof our omnMsinds, re all sind, that We
  21. reason best and clearest, wrhen we only observe the connexion of the
  22. Prools, Without reducins it to any Rule oF SyIlosism: and theretore re
  23. mas take nocice, thar chere are mans Men char reason exceedins clear
  24. and ristuly, irho bnow not how eo malie a Ssllosilm. IIc chat will.
  25. look into many parts oF Asa and america, rill tind Men reason there,
  26. perhaps, as acurels as himsels, Wrho vet never heard ofa Syllosiim, nor
  27. can reduce ans one Aroument cothole Forms. Indced Poretimes it may
  28. serve to discover a Fallacy hid in arhetorical Flourish, or cunning ly vrrapp d
  29. up in a snooth Period; and stripping an Ablurdity of the Cover ol
  30. Wic, and sood Languase, Me ic in its naled Deformity: But the Mind
  31. is not caushr to reason by these Rules, it has a natire Faculty to perceire
  32. the Coherence, or Incoherence of its Ideas, and ean ranse them rislt,
  33. rithout anr such perplexins Repetitions. Tell a Counery Cientlewoman,
  34. that the Wind is South. Welt, and the Weather lourins, and like to rain,
  35. and sre ill easily understand, tis not sase for her to go abroad thin clad,
  36. in such a dar, atter a Fever: Bhe clearly sces the probable connexion oF alt
  37. chese, 2iz. South West. Wind, and Clouds, Rain, ectins, calcins Cold,
  38. Relapse, and Danser oF Death, withoue yinsthem together in thole ar
  39. titicial and cumberlome Ferrers ol sereral Ssllosisins, that clos and hinder
  40. che Mind, Which proceeds trom one part to another quicler and clearer
  41. without them; and the Probabilitr irhich Me calily perceires in Things
  42. thus in their natire State, rould be quite lost, il this Arsument. Were
  43. manased searnealr, and proposed in Mode and tisure. For it very olten
  44. consouvds the connexion: an, P thint, every one will perceive in mathe.
  45. matical Demonstrarions, that thekno ledse sain dtherebr, comes Mhor-
  46. test and elcarest without Syllosilm.
  47. Secondly, Because thoush Syllosim serres to Mem the Force or Fallacy
  48. oF an Argument, made use ot in che ulual ras ot discoursins, by lupply-
  49. ins the absent Propolition, and so sertins it betore the vier in a clear
  50. Ligl; vet it no lels engages the Mind in the perplexier ot obleure, equi
  51. vocal, and Fallacious Terms, Wrhererith this artiticial was of Reasonins
  52. alirars alouncs: it beins adarted more to the atrainins ol Victory
  53. in Dispure, chan che discovers or contirmation ot Truch in fair
  54. Enquirses.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 342. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0358?run=74