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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
cireumstances oE Fime, or Dlace, Or any other Ideas tha may determiti
eliem tothis or chat particular Exiltence. By this ay ot abstraction,
cher are made capable ot reprelentins more Individuals than one; cach
oFirhich, haviris in it a contormits eo chat abstract Idea, iS (a5 We call ic)
OF thaF FOTE.
S. Z But Eo deduce chis a licele more distinctir, ic will noc, pertraps,
beamits, to trace our Nocions, and Names, From their beginnino, and ob-
serve by rhac deorees we proceed, and by irhat stepsre enlaroe oux Ideas
froin our first intaner. There is nothino more evident, than FBAE FMC
Ideas oFthe Persons Children converse wieh, (to instance in them alone,)
are like rhe Persons themselres, only particular. The Ideas ofthe NurIO,
and the Mother, are vell Pramed in their Minds; and, litre Dictures ot
them etiere, represent onty chole Indiriduals. The Names ther Arct sire
tothem, are consmed to chese Individuals; and the names ot Darse, ane
Mamma, the Child ules, determine chemselres to those PerIOnS. AIFer-
vards, When rime and a larger acquaintance, has made them oblerve,
that chere ore a great mans ocher Things in the Worid, chac in lome com
mon agreements oF Strape, and several ocher Oualities, resemble their Fa-
ther and Nocher: and those Persons ther have been uled to, they frame
an Idea Which cher find chose manr Particulars do partakre in: and 18
that ther sive, with others, the name Man, POr example. And thuS
ther come to have a generat Name, and a general Ldea. Wherein they matee
nothina ne, but only leave out of the complex Ldea they had ot Peter
and Fames, Mary and Fane, that Wrhich is peculiar to cacti, and retain
ouly hac is common co them all.
5. 8. By che lame WaY thaE ther eome by the general Name and Idea
et Ntan. ther eaCi advance to more ceneral Names and Notions. For ob-
Tervine, thar several Things that differ trom their idea oF Man, aud can-
not thicretore be comprehended under hat Name, hare vet cerrain Oua
licies, Wherein they agrec wich Man, by retainins only thole Dualities.
and unitins chem into one Idea, they hare again another and a more sene
ral Ldea; to which having siven a Name, ther matie a term ol a more
comprehensive extention: Which nem Idea, is made not by any new ad-
dition, buc ontr, as betore, by leavins out the Cape, and lome ocher
Propercies sionitied br the name Man, and retainins orly a B0dY, wictu
Tile, sense, and spontaneous Morion, comprehended under che natE
Animal.
5. 9. That chis is che way whereby Men first formed ceneral Edeas, and
general Names tothem, Trhink, isB evident, that chere necds no orter
ProoFoFit, but the considerins of aMarS seIF, or others, and the ordina-
er proceedinos oEtheir Minds in Rnomledse: And he thac chintes general
Natures, Or Notions, are any thing else bur such abstrast and parrial Ideas
oF more complex ones, catsen at srst Prom particular Exiltences, will, l
Fear, De at a lols irhere tofind chem. For let any onc restect, Wherein
does his Ldea oFa Nan, difter trom chat ot Peter, and Paul; Or his Idea
otan ETorle, trom that ot Bucephalus, bur in the learins oue somethins
chax is peculiar to cach Indiridual; and retainins (0 muctr ot thole parti-
cular complex Ideas, of several particular fixistences, as ther are Pound 10
agrec in. OEthe complex Ideas, signitied by thenames Man, and Llorse
leavins out but chose particulars irherein ther ditter, and retaining onlr
those Wherein thez acree, and ot those, maline a new distinct complex
Idea, and sivins the namme animal toic, one has a more general terim,
that comprehends, rieh Man, several other Creatures. Leave out the
Idea oE Animal, Sense, and spontaneous Morion, and the remainins cor-
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