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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Map. LAL.
Adequate anc b qucbe Loe a.
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Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
8. 1.
our real Ideas, fome ate Adlequare, and some are Inaclequate.
Those Icall adequate, Which perfectly reprelent ctiole Arche:
tves, Which the Minid suppolesthem tahen trom; Wrhich it intendsthem
tostand For; ard to Which it reters them. Lnadequare Ideas are suchr, whict
are BuE a partial, or incomplear represehtation OE FhOle ArChery DeS tO
Wtich they are reterred. Opon wrtrich accoune it is plairi,
5. 2. First, That al our simple Ideas are adequare. Becduse beins no-
thins bur ihe effects oF certain Povers in Thinss, futed and ordainedbis
GOD, to produce Sch Sensations in uS, they CannOt Dut be Correspon
dent, and adequate ro those Povers: And ire are sure thiey aoree tothe
realier of Thiriss. For il Sugar produce in is the Ideas wtrich We calI
Whiteness, and Screctnels, re are ture there is a porver in Sucar to pro-
diée those Ideas in our Mlinds, or elle cher could noc have been produi
ced. And locach Sensation ansverins FhC POrVEK THaL OperateS On any OF
our Senles, the Ldea so produced, is a real Idea, (and not a fictior ol the
Mind,) Which has no porrer toproduce ans simple ldeasand cannot butbe
adequare, sirice it oustut only ro ansiver chat vover: and so all simple
Tdeas are adequate. Tistrue, the Thinos producins in us these simplo
Ideas, are bur ser of them denominated by us, as il ches iere ouly the
causes ofthem; but as ilthole Ideas ere real Beings in them. For thouxh
Fire be cald paintul to the Fouchu, Whereby ic lignitiedche porver of pro-
ducins in us the Idea oF Pain: yet it is denominated also LishE, and FIOE;
is il Light, andFleat, ere really somethins in the Fire, more than a
porver to exeite thele Ideas in us; and theretore are called Oualities ) in
Orofthe Fire. But these beines nothino, in truth, buc porvers to excite luctu
Ideas inus,  mult, in that sense, be understood, When I speak ot secundaris
Oualities, as beins in Thines; or oftheir Ideas, as beine in che Objects, chat
excire them in us. Such rars of speattine, thouxli accommodated tothe
vuloar Notions, Wittiout which, one cannot be ell understood; ret
truls ciynitie nochins. but those Povers, Whuch are in Things, to excite
certain Serilations or Ideas in us. Since vere there no tut Oroansto receivo
the imprestions Fire makres on the Sight and Touch; nor aMind joined to
chose Organs, to reccire the ideas ot Lislit and Eleat, by those impressi
ons trom che Fire, or che sun, there ould yet benomore Lisht, or Ileat
in the Norld, Thanthere ould be Pain, il there ere no sensible Crea:
cure to scel it, thoush the sun Bould continue just as it isnor, and MOUnE
Arna Alame higher than ever it did. Solidier, and tixtention, and the
termination ofit, Figure, ith Motion and Rest, Whereot e have the
Ideas, rould be really in the World asthey arc, Whether there vere any
sensible Being to perccivethem, orno: And cherclore thole we havo rea-
son to loolc on, as the real modificarions oF Matter; and luch as are the
excirins Causes oF all our various senlations trom Bodies. But this be-
ins an sinquiry nor belongins to this place, L Mall enter no farther into
it, but proceed to Mer irhat complex Ideas are adequate, and What
ROE.