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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Of Real and Phancasticat 1de25.
8. L. P D Fsies Wottat re have already mentioned, concernins Ldeas, Other
Conliderationsbelons tothem, inrelerenceto things trom Wrhence
ches are talcen, or whichthes mas besuppoled ro represent; and thus, 
chink, thes mas come under a chircesole distinction; and are,
First, Kicher real, or phancaltical.
Secondly, Adequate, or inadequate.
Thiraly, Truo, Or Falsc.
First, By real Ideas, Imean such as tave a Foundation in Nature
such as have a Conformits wich thereal Beins, and Existence oF Things,
or with cheir ArchetrDes. Phantasticat or chymerical, I Call such as have
no Foundation in Nature, nor have any Contormiey wich chat rea.
lity oE Beins, to Which they are taciely reterrd, as to their Archerypes.
IFire examine the several forrs oF Ldeas betore mentioned, we Mall find,
that,
6. 2. First Oux simple Tdeas are alt reatu all apree tothe realitr oE
chinrs. Not thatthey are all oF them the ImasCS, Or representations
OF What does exist, the contrary Whereos, in all bur the primary Oualities
ot Bodies, hath been alreads Bheved. Bur choush Whicenels and Cold-
nessare no more in Snorr, than Pain is; vet thole Pdeas oF Whiceness
and Coldness, Pain, (5c. Deins in us the FHects oP Povers in Things ith
outus, ordained by our Maker, to produce in us, sueh Senlatiors; ther
are real Ideas in us, Wherebr re distinsuistr the Oualities, that are really
in chinss chemlelves. For these several Appcarances, beins designed 10
De the Marks, Wherebs re are toknor, and distinguistr Things ve have
todo wich; our Ideas doas ell serre us to that purpole, and areas real
distinonisting Characters, Whether ther be only constant FHects, Or
else exaet Relemblances oflomething in the things themselves: the rea-
liey ling in chat lteady correspondence, they hare rich che distinet Con-
Stiturions oE real Beings. But Whether they ansiver to these Constitutions,
25 to Causes or Parterns, it matrers nor; it suffices, thac they are constant.
ly procuced by chem. And thus our simple Fdeas are allreal and true, DC.
cause thes anliver and agree to thole Povers oF Thinss, Wrhich produce
them in our Minds, that beines all chat is requilite ro makre them real.
qnd noc Actious at Pleasure. For in simple Ideas, (as has been Mewed,
theMind is Wholly contined to the Operation oF things uxonit; and can
matce ro it sel(no simple Idea, more than what ic has received.
6. 3. Thoush themtind De wholly passive, in respeet ofits simple Ideas:
Vet, Ichink, we mar lar, it is noclo, in respeet ot its complex Ideas: For
those beins Combinations ot simple Ideas, putcogether, and united under
one general Name; ris plain, char the Mind otMan ules lome kind ot Liber-
er, in Formins thole complex Ideas. TTor elle comes itto pals, that onc
Maris Idea ot Gold, or fultice, is different tromanochers: But because he
lesput in, or lele out ofhis, some simple Idea, Which the other haS nOF.
The Ouestion then is, Which ot these arc real, ard Which barely imaoiparo
Combinations: What Collections agree tothe reality ot Things, and what
not: And tothis ICaY, Phat
6. 4. Secondly, Mixed Modes and Relations, havins no other realier.
but wlat rhes have in che Minds oF Men, there is nothins more requi-
rec