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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Chap. LLLII
Mixed Modes.
vinal Edeas on which the rest depend. For By chele, Timaxine, mig hED
explained the nature OF ColOurS, SovHdS, FastCS, SinelIS, and all Other
Edeas re have. it e hac but Faculties acure enouoh to perccive cho
severally modisiea FXtensiOnS, and Norions, oP these minute Bodies,
Wrhich producechose several Senlations in US. BuL ny present purpole be
ins to enquire ouly into thie Hnow ledse the Mind has oF Thines. by those
Ideas, and Appearances God has Arred it to receivetrom them, and hou che
Mind comes by that Hnomledge; racher chan inro their Caules, Ox manner
o Production, I Mall nOE, Contrars to the Delign OFthiS PPaY, set my
self eo enquire philolophically into tie peculiar Censtiturion oF Bodies,
and the Consisuration oF Parts, Whereby cher have the pOver tO pro:
duce in us the Ideas oE their sensible Qualities: I Mall nOL Cnter any
forthes into that Disquisition; it suficins to my purpose eo observe,
Thac G0Id, or Satron, BaS a pOver eO produce in us the Idea oE
Zello; are Snoi, or Milk, ehe Idea oF Whire; WticH ire Can Have
only br our Sighe, ithout examinins the Texture oF the Parts ol
hrse Bodies, or the particular FigurCS, Or Motion, oF the Parricles,
irtich rebound trom ehem, to cause in us that particular Sensation:
Though irlien ve so berond the bare Ideas in our Minds, and would
eriquire into their Causes, re cannot conceire any chine elle, to be
in aux sensible Object, Wherehy it produces diferene Ideas in uS,
bur che ditterent Bullc, Fixure. Number, Texture, and Motion ol its
BAbIC PAYES.
Ht A F. XXII.
Of Mixed Modess
Avins treaced oF Simple Modes in che Poresoins Chaprers, ance
siven several instances ot lome oF the most considerable ot
them, to thew wrhat ther are, andhor me come bythem; ve are nou in
thenext place to consider chole We call Mixed Modes, Tuch are the Com:
plex Ideas, we malce br the names Obligation, Drunbenness, 2 Lie, (oc.
nhichconsistine oFseveral Combinations of simple Ideas oF disserent trinds,
Thave called Mixed Modes, in distinguis chem From the more simple
Modes, Whichconsits onty oF simple Ldeas oFthe same kind. Fhese mixed
Medles beins also such Combinations ot simple Ideas, as are not loobcd
upon to bethe characteristical Marks of any real Beings that have a Aeady
existence, but scattered and independene Idcas, put rogecher by the
Mind, are thereby distinguisted trom the complex Ideas oF Substances.
5. 2. Thar the Mind, in respeet ot its simple Ldeas, is Wholly pastive,
and receires them all trem the Existence and Operations oF Thiries, Puch
as Sensation or Reflection otersthem, without beines able to male any
One Ldea Experience Thews uS. But is we necentivels consider thele Ideas
E Call mixed Modes, we are now speatinq oF, e Mall snd chieir Orixinal
quire difterent. The Mind nere otten exercises an active Pover in thema-
kine these leverat combinations: For it being onice furnisted with simple
Ideas, it can put them tosether in several Compositions, and so makee
varietr oF complex Ideas, withour examining Whether thes exist so toge-
ther in Nature. And hence, Pthink, it is, that these Pore ot Ideas are
called Nocions; as il cher had cheir Orisinal, and constant Existence more