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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 343

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  1. 6. 5. Bicnomeet _ _ Rnoledse, Pchints, Limay cruly (aY, it is 0
  2. far lels, or no use at aIl in Probabilicies: For the ARene chere. beine tobe
  3. determined hy che prexonderaner, atcor a due weishrins ot all the Pecols
  4. rith all. Circumstances on both lides, nochinsis s0 untuto allisttheMind
  5. in chat, 25. Syllosims. rhich runmins amay ich oro altumed Probabilier.
  6. or onecopical Arsumene, pursues charrillit has led theMind quite ouF ot
  7. sistre of ehe thing under Consideration; and Forcins it upon Ponie remore
  8. Disficulr, Bolds it Fast chero, intanoled perhrapo, end as it Wvore, mana-
  9. eled in ehie Chain ol Syllosilms, itliout allorrins it lche liberer, muct
  10. lels afFordine it the helps requisite ro shem on irhich. sidle, aIl Thinssconsi-
  11. dered, is the greatex Probabiliry. it a scili
  12. G. 6. BuE set ic help us (25, Perhiapo, mar be laid) in convincins Nen oF
  13. eheir Errors or Mistates; Cand vet l rould Fain sec rheMan, char WaS FOr-
  14. ced oue oFhiis pinions by dint ol syllocisim;) ver Rillit fails our Reason
  15. inchat part, Wvhich is noc ies hiohest Perlection, is vet certainty its hardest
  16. Fasls, arid thac which re molt necd its help in; and chat is the findine
  17. out of Prooss, and mateine neu Discoveries.The Rules oF Syllosilim serve
  18. noc eo turnisr ilo Mind wich chose incermediate Ideas, that may MeW
  19. ere connexion oE remoteones. This way of realoningi diseovers no rem
  20. Prools, but is ehe Art oEmarcallins, and rangins the old ones ire have
  21. alreacy. = he 17h Provolicion ot che Firs Bool ot Paclid is very true; but
  22. the discovery OEic, Lchinl, noc owirs co any Rules ot common Losicli.
  23. Aptan Knows Cirst, and chen he is able to prove llogistically. 50 that
  24. Sylloeim comes alcer Hnorledse, and chen a nlan has licrle on no need
  25. OF it. Bur ris chiesty by che Anding out chose Ldeas chat ew the cor-
  26. nexion oF distant ones, tac our Aock, ot Rnomledse is increased, and
  27. that ulesul Arts and Sciences are advanced. Sisllogit, at best, is but
  28. the Art oF teneins writh che litele Hnomledse e haves irhour maleino
  29. aur additionto it: And il a Man Mould emplor his Reason all this war,
  30. he rill noc doc much ocherwise than he, irhio havins got lome Tron out
  31. OF the Borels ofthe Farch, Mould hare it beaten upx ail into sivords, and
  32. put it into his Serrants Prands totence writh, and bone onc anocher. FTad
  33. theking of Spain imploz dche FTands of his People, and his Spanis Tron
  34. S0, he hac broushe ro Lisht buc litele oF chat Freature, chat lay (0lons
  35. hid in ehe dark Fntrails ot America. And Tam apt eo think, that he Who
  36. Thall emplos all che force oF his Reason ouls in brandistrins ot SyIlogils,
  37. Will discover very liule of char Mass ol hnonledsc, erhich lies vet concca
  38. led in the secret recesles oF Nature; and wrhich l am ape cothinte, native
  39. rustich Realon (asit formerty has done) is likrelier to open a ray to, and
  40. add to the common sock oE Mankind, rather than any scholastick Pro-
  41. cecdins by the Arie Rules oF Mode and Figure.
  42. 5. 7. Idoube nor nevertheless, but there are mays tobe tound to alTict
  43. our Reason in this most usetul pare; and this the judicious ooker en
  44. courases ne totar, Who intiis Fcct. Pol. l. T. 6. 6. SpcakEs thuS: JF rhere
  45. mieht be added the riehe helps of true Art and Learnine, (Which helps L
  46. must plainty confess, this Aoc of ihe Worid carryine the Name of a learned
  47. ee doth neither muehs tenou, nor generally recard,) there vould undoubred
  48. Ir be almost as much difference in Maturiey of Fudement between Menthere-
  49. with inured, and that Whieh nou Menare, as between Men that are nou, and
  50. Innocenis. Idonot pretend to have Found, or discovered here any ol thole
  51. riehe helps of Art, ehis sreat Wan oE decp Thoustts mentions; but chis
  52. is plain, that Syllosism, and the L. osicle nom in Vle, crhich vere as rvell
  53. Known in his dazs, can be none olthole hemeans. It is sufficient Por me,
  54. is by 2 Dilcourle, pertaps, lomechins our ofthe nay, Jam sure aS t0 me
  55. Wrholl

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 343. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0359?run=74