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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. -

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  1. tI AF:
  2. Tneroduction.
  3. +. An Finguiri into the Onderstan.
  4. dins pleasant and usesul.
  5. 2. Desieen.
  6. 3. Method.
  7. 4. 2 sesut ro tenou the extent of our
  8. Comprehension.
  9. 5. Our Capacitr preportioned to out
  10. State and Concerns; to discover
  11. thines useful t0us.
  12. 6. Knovine the extent of our Capaci
  13. ties villhinder us from useless Cu
  14. riosity Scepticism, and Telleness.
  15. . Occasion ofthis FPay:
  16. 8. Apolocy for Idea.
  17. stl +.
  18. 8. H Reason discovered chem, ihai
  19. vould not prove theminnaie.
  20. quo
  21. 12
  22. thent.
  23. Tis false that. Reason discovers
  24. CHAP. II.
  25. Ho innate speculative Principles.
  26. SECF.
  27. E. The vay seron hou we come By
  28. any sinouledse, sufficient to prove
  29. it not innate.
  30. 2. Generat Assent the oreat Argu
  31. ment.
  32. 3. Universal Consent proves nothine
  33. innate.
  34. +. Whatis, i5; and, TEis impossible
  35. For the lame thinq to bc, and
  36. Hot to De, not universally assen-
  37. +ed +0.
  38. 3. Not on ihe Mina naturally im-
  39. printed, because noi tenoon +0
  40. Children Idiots, EC.
  41. 67. That Men tnow them When they
  42. come tothe use of Reason, ansiver d.
  43. +2
  44. The comme te te 2se of Reason.
  45. not the time We come to kno
  46. t
  47. These Maxims.
  48. Bythis, therare not distinguistred
  49. Trom other hnovable Truths.
  50. Is comine to the use of Reason
  51. vere the time of their discovery.
  52. Et wonldnot prode theminnate.
  53. 5, 16. L seps N Which the Mind at-
  54. tains severat Truths.
  55. T. entine as fodn as proposed and
  56. understood, proves them not in-
  57. nate.
  58. (0. 1) facts unemibe a marke of ix-
  59. nate, then that, One and Tuo are
  60. equal. to Three; that Sweetness
  61. is not Bitterness; and a thou-
  62. Sand the like must be innate.
  63. 9. Duchlesssen Propositions tnoun
  64. defore these un versal Maxims.
  65. 26. Oe and One. equat t0 Tuo, ec.
  66. noc general nor useful, ansivered.
  67. LL. Lhese Maxims not beine tenoion
  68. sometimes sill proposed, proves
  69. Ehem not innate.
  70. LL. Impliciily knocon before proposine
  71. nistes thatthe Mind is capable
  72. ot understandine them, or else
  73. Tenisies nochine.
  74. 23. DC L Lament os assentine on first
  75. bearine, is upon a false suxposi-
  76. non of no precellent teachine.
  77. 24. Not innate, because not universally
  78. aented 10.
  79. 25. These Maxims not EIs AS KHoN.
  80. 2.6. nd sonot innate.
  81. 27. 0t

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0381?run=74