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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Other simple Ntcus.
distinct Zdeas, Wrhich are all but the different modifications oF NoriOn.
Modes of Motion antirer thole oF Eixtention; Srist and Slow are uodif
ferent Ideas ofMotion, the meatures Whereof aremade ot the diltances ot
Time and Space puc tosether, (o ther are complex Ideas comprehendins
Time and Space irith Motion.
5. 3. Thelike variety have we in Sounds. Every articulate ord is à
different modisication of Sonnd; by which we sec, that froin the sense ot
FIcarins by such modifications, the Mind may be Furnished ich distinct
Ideas, to almost an infinite Number. Sounds also, besides the distinct
cries oF Birds and BCasts, are modified by diversiti of Notes of different
leneth pur together, Which malre that complex (deacal d a Tune, erhick
aMuisiciari may have in hisMind, When he hears or makes no soune at
all, by rellectins on the Ldeas ot thole Sounds, (0 put together slently in
his orntaner.
5. 4. Those ofColours misht also be verr various; fome ive tatie no-
tice otas the difterent deorees, or as they are termed, Shades of the same
Colour: But since ve rery soldom makre assemblages of Colours, cither for
Vsc or Delight, but Figure is taten in allo, and has its pare in it, as in
Painting. Wearing. Necdle- orHS, (56. Those wtich are tatcen notice
Ot do most commonty belono to mixed Modes, as being made up ot
Ideas ot divers kinds, viz. Figure and Colour, such as Beautr, Rain
DOW, (5c.
6. 5. All compounded Fastes and Smells, are allo Modes made ux osthese
Cmple Ideas oF those Senles; but ther beins such as gencrally re have
nonames For, are lels tatennorice ot, and cannor be set donn in evritin:
and therelore must De letr rithout cnumeration, to the Phousles and LX-
perience oF my Reacer.
5. 6. In general it mar beobserved, that thole simple Modes which are
considere d but as different derrees of the same simple Idea; thoush chey are
in themselres manr ot them very distinet Ldeas; y et have ordinarily no
distinct Names, nor are much talen notice oF as dictinct Ideas, irtiere
the difference is but very snall betrreen them. Whether Nen have ne
slected these Modes, and siven no Names to them, a5 rantins measures
nicels to distinsuistr them, or because wrhen ther vere (o distinguistred,
thac Knomledoe ould not be ot general or necessarr usc, I leave iE FOFhO
Thouxhs oForhers; it is susficient to my purpole to MeW, that aIl chese
simple Ldeas, come to our Minds onty by Sensation and ReRoction; and
thac Whenthe Mindhasthem, ic can various repeat and compound
them, and (o malce ne complex ideas. But thoush Whice, Red, or Sivect,
CSc. hare not beenmodisied or made into complex Ideas, by several Com-
binations, (0 as to be named, and thereby rantced into Species; vet fome
Others of the simple Ldeas, viz. those oF Unity, Duration, Morion, (95.
abore instanced in, as also Porver and Thintcins have been thus moditied
to a great variets of complex ldeas, with Names belonsins tothem.
5. 7. The Reason mhereof, I supvosc, has been this, Thatthegreat Con.
cerrment of Men beins rith Men onc amonsst another, theHnomledse
OtNen, and their Actions, and the lignilgins ol them to one another,
as most necellarr; and cheretore ther made Ideas of Actions very nicely
modisied, and sare thole complex Ideas names, that thes mighe the more
casils record and discourse ol thole thinss ther tere daily converlant in,
trithout lone Ambases and Circumlocurions; and that the thinos thes
rere continualls to sive and receire information about, misht bethe
calier and quicker understood. Fhac this is (0 and thar Men in tramine
ditterene complex tdcas, and sivine ihem Wames, have becn vee
verned