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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Mixed Modes.
than eo trouble their Memories by mulciplyins oE complex Ideas wirt
names tothem, Which chey Mall seldom or neverhare ans occasion t0
malie ule oE.
8. 6. This sires us the Realon hou it comes to pass, that there are in
every Languaze words Which cannot be rendred by anyuords of another. POr
theseveral Fathions, Customs, and Manners ot one Nacion, malins seve
ral Combinarions of ldeas familiar and necessary in onc, Which another
People had neverans oceation tomatce, or, perhaps, (0 much as takio no-
tice ot, Names eome afcourse to he annexed to them, to aroid lons Peri-
phrales in chinssof dails Converlation; and so chey become lo mans di
Rinc complex Ideas in cheir Minds. Thus ospgnuos amons he Cireets,
and Proscripto amonst the Romans, Cood For complex Ideas, Wrhich ivere
noc in che Minds oE ocher People, nor had cheretore ans names in other
Lansuases that ansveredthem. Wherethere ras no such Cuctom, there
vas do notion otans such actions, no ule o( such Combinations ol (deas
25 Were unitec, and, a5 it vere, tied togetherby thole terms; and theretore
in other Countries there vere no names Torthem.
8. 7. Fence also e may sec the Reaton, Nhy Langnases constantly
chanse, tale up new, and lay by old terms. Becaule chanse of. Customs
and Opinious bringins with them ne Combinations ot Ldeas, Which it
is necellary frequently to thinks on, and calle about, nem names to avoid
lons delcriptions are annexed to them; and so ther become nem Species
ot complex Modes. What a number of difterent Ideas are by this means
errapped up in oncMore Tound, and hor much ol our Time and Breath
is thereby savec, ans one ill sce, who rill but talle che vains to enu.
merate all the Ideas, chat cither Reprieve or Appeal Cand For; and in
Readol cicher oEchoseWames, ule a Periphrasis to malse ans one under.
stand their meaning.
8. 8. Thoush I Mall hare occasion to consider this more at larse, Wrher
Tcome to treat of Words, andtheir VSC; vet P could not avoid to takie
thus much notiee here of the names of mixed Modes, Wrhich beins dce-
tins, and trantient Combinations ot simple Ideas, Which hare but a More
existenee ans irhere, bur in the Minds of Men; and there too hare no
lonser ans existence, chan WrhilA ther are thoushe on, have not so much
any vohere the appearance of a constant and lastine existence, as in their
Names; Wrtrich are therelore, in thele sort oF Ideas, very apt tobe tatsen For
the Ideas chemselves. For ifive Mould enguire where ehe Idéa oF a Tri-
umph, or Apetheosis ezists, it is evident, cher could neither of them exist al
together any wrhere in che chinss chemlelres, beins actions that required
time totheir pertormance, anc (o could never all exist together: And ad
to the Minds oFMen, Wrhrere the Ideas ofthese Actions are suppoled tobe
lodsed, ther have there t00 a very uncertain existencs: and cheretore
re are apt ro annex them to the Names that excire them in US.
6. 9. There are therelore thrée mays wherebyve set these complex Ideas of
mixed Modes. L. By Experienice and Observation ot chinss themselves. Ttus
by sceing tiro Men vrasle; or fence, e get te Idea oF trrahling or
fencins 2. By Invention, er voluntarr purtins together ol several simple
Ideas in our own Mincs: S0 he that trst invented Princins, or Erchins, had
an Ldea ot it in his ptind, belore it ever exicted. 3. Whichis the mole
ulual rar, by explainine the names ot Actions ve nevet lar, or Notions
ie cannot lec; and by enumeratins, and cherebr, as it vere, lertins be-
fore our Imaginations all chole Ideas which so ro the matins them up
andare the constituent parts of them. Por havins by sensation ard Re
Rection Aored our Minds wich sumple Ldeas, aud by ule POr rhe Names
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