An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 362

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1. Division of the Sciences
2. none os them, besides it selF, present to thoOnderstanding, tis necessary
3. chat lomethins elle, as a Sign or Reprelentation ol the chins it conliders,
4. Mould be prelent to it: And chese are Ideas. And becaule the Ideas ot
5. oncMan SMind cannor immediatelr be laid open eo the riew ot anortier;
6. nor bechemselres laid up any erhere, but in cheMemorr, Which is aptto
7. let them 50 and lose them: Therelore to comimunicate our Ideas one to
8. another, as ellas record them for our omnuse, signs ot our Ideas are
9. allo necestarr. Those erhich Men have Found most convenient, and
10. theretore generally makie use oF, are articulate Sounds. The Considera:
11. tion then oF Ideas and Words, as the sreat Instruments ol Hnomledge,
12. makce no despicable part ol their Contemplation, wtio vould take a vier
13. Ot humane Rnowledoe in thewhole Extent ot it. And, pertraps, il they
14. eere distinctly wreishied, and duls considered, they rould attordus ano.
15. cher Cort oF Losich and Critick, than wrhat ve have been hitherto ac:
16. quainted with.
17. 8. 5. This seems to me the sirst and most general, as well as natural divi-
18. sion ot the Objects ot our Vnderstanding. For lince a Man can employ
19. his Thoughes about nothins, bur cirher the Contemplation of Thinos
20. themselres Tor the discoverr oF Truth; Or about the Things in his omn
21. Corver, which are his oun actions, For the Atrainment ot his ovn Encs.
22. Or the Signs theMind matres ulc oF, both in the one and the ottier, and
23. cherioht orderins ofthemfor its clearer Information. All which chree,
24. 2iz. Thinos as they are in themselres Hnorrable; Actions as ther depend
25. on us, in order totappiness; and cherishc ulc of Sisns in order to RnO-
26. ledoe, beinz roro caeloditterent, they lecmed to me tobe the three preat
27. Provinces ot cheincellectual Worta, uhouy leparate and distinet one
28. trom another.
29. Bool

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 362. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0378?run=74