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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. -

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  1. Conte
  2. rculty 1d treat of Woras with
  3. F3. Thenominal Pence that of the
  4. Species, proved from Water and
  5. Ice
  6. 54. 18. Dissiculties acainst a certain
  7. number of real Esences.
  8. 29. Our nominal P. sences of Substan-
  9. ces, not penfect Collections of Pro-
  10. perties.
  11. 2t. But such a Collection as our. Name
  12. Stands for.
  13. 22. Our abstract Ideas are to, us the
  14. measures, of Species, instance in
  15. that of Man.
  16. 23. Species not distinguiste d by Cene-
  17. ration.
  18. 24. Distinguisbine them by substantiat
  19. Forms, nor pretended ro but in SECT.
  20. this part of the Worid.
  21. Substances distinguisbed into Spe-
  22. cies, by their obvious appearances
  23. hefore substantial Forms vere
  24. thoueht of.
  25. 25. The specifick P sences are made
  26. by the Mind.
  27. 26. Therefore very various and uncer-
  28. tain
  29. 27. But not so arbitrarily as mixed
  30. Modes.
  31. 28. Thoueh very imperfect.
  32. 29. Whichyet serves for common Con-
  33. verse.
  34. 30. But mates severat Fssences sieni
  35. fied by the same Name.
  36. 3I. Themore generat our Ideas are-
  37. the more incompleat and partiat
  38. theyare.
  39. 32. This all accommodated to the end
  40. of Speech.
  41. 33. Instance in C assuaries.
  42. 34. Men make the species instance
  43. 601d.
  44. 35. Thouch Nature make the Simili-
  45. Fude.
  46. 36. And continues it in the races of
  47. Thines.
  48. 37. Fach abstract Idea is an F ssence.
  49. 38. Cenera and Species, in order to
  50. namine instance watch.
  51. 39. Species of artificiat Thines less
  52. confused than naturat.
  53. 40. Artificial Thines of distinet Spe-
  54. cies.
  55. AI. Substances alone have proper
  56. Names.
  57. neah and Hliouph..
  58. fore varions.
  59. 18. Theresore to se s species, 4
  60. reat Lsence is fapposed.
  61. 50. Conclusion.
  62. 43, 44. Iustance of mixed Modes in Ri
  63. 45, 46. Instance of Substances in Lahab.
  64. 47. Their Ideas imperfect, and there-
  65. 19. Ubich Supposition is of no use.
  66. l.
  67. Oartieles:
  68. L. Particles connect Parts, or Whole
  69. Sentences tocether.
  70. 2. Luthem consists ebc urt os uli
  71. speakine
  72. 3, 4. They seu iwhat Relation the u
  73. Sives to its oun Zhouehis.
  74. 5. Instance in BUI.
  75. 6. Zhis Malter but lixbly rouched
  76. ere
  77. EHAD. vII
  78. Of Abstract and Conerete Terms:
  79. SEC.T
  80. . Abstract Terms not predicable one
  81. of another, and why.
  82. 2. They sew the diffetC os oat
  83. Ideas.
  84. TTAP. IX.
  85. Of che imperfection of Words.
  86. BFCT
  87. F. WVords are used for recordine and
  88. communicatine our Thouches.
  89. 2. Any WVords will serve for recor-
  90. dine.
  91. 3. Communication by Words. Ciuil
  92. or Philosophical.
  93. 4. The Imperfection of Words is the
  94. Doubefulness of their Sienification.
  95. 5. Causes of their Imperfection.
  96. 6. TheNames ot mixed Modes doubi
  97. fum
  98. ta

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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/778263916:0392?run=74