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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Names of simple Ideas.
served in Snoir, or Milte, ill nor be apt to milapels chat Word, as lono
25 he retairis that idea; wrhrich irhen he has quire lost, he is not apt t0
mistahe the meanine ot it, but perceires he understands it not. There is
neither a mulciplicits ol limple Ideas to be put rogether, Whieh malces
ihe doubetulnels in the Names of mixed Nodes; nor a supposed, buE au
untenomn real Fssence, With Proverties dependins chereon, the precilé
number Whereot, are allo untenomn, wrhich males the disficuley in the
Names oE Substances. Buc on the contrari, in simple Ideas the whole
sgnilication of the Name is lnon at once, and consilts nOt oF parts
Whereot more or lels beins pur in, the Idea mas be varied, and (0 ché
Tignitication oFies Name, De obleure, or uncertuin.
6. 76. Fischly, This Carrter tray be observec, concerrins simple Ideas;
and cheir Names, that they have tut feu Ascents in linea praedicamentali,
(a5 FHey call it,) from the lovest Species, +o the summum Genus. Tsje
realon Wrhereofis, that the lowest Species beins, but one simple Idea, no-
thine cari be lett out oFit, that (o the difference beine talen awaz, it may
aeree ith some orter thing in onc common to them boch; Wrhichi havine
one Naime, is the Genus of the ochertWro: 2. 8. Fhere is nothins can be
lelE out oF the sdea oF White and Red, to malse them aeree in one com-
mon appeararice, and so have onc seneral name; as Rationality beins
lest oucot the corriplex Idea oF Man, makes it agree with Brure, in the
more general Idea and narrie oF Animal. And theresore erhen to avoid
ipleasant enumerations, Den rould comprehend boch WWhite and Red,
arel several ocher such simple Ideas, under one sereral name, ther have
been Fain to do it by a Nord, Whichdenotes onty the way they set into
themind. For When Whire, Red, and Tellou, are all comprehended un
der thie Genus orname Colour, ic signitles no more, but suen Ideas, aS are
producedin the Mind only by the Sighe, and have entrance onty chrouot
elic Ryes. And When chermould trame vet a more general term, to com
pretienid boch Colours and Sonnas, and the like simple Ideas, ther do itbu
a Word, that signities aII such as come into the Mind only by one sense:
And (0 the general term Duality, in its ordinary acception, comprehends
Colours, Sounds, Fastes, Smells, and tangible Oualities, With distinction
trom Extension, Number, Motion, Plcasure, and Pain, wtrich mate im-
prections on cheMind, and incroduce cheir Ideas by more senles chani
Onc.
6. 27. Sixtbly, TheNames oE simple Ideas, Substances, and mixed
Modes, tiare alsothis difference; That thole of mixed Modes carid for
Ideas perfectls arbitrary: Those of Substances, are not perfectir (0; but
refer to a partern, though ith some latitude: and those of simple Ideas
are perlectly taben tram the existence os Things, arid are not arbitrary qt
all. Which What disterence it males in the sierifications ot cheir Names,
e Mall sec in che Follorins Chapters.
The Names ol smple Modes, disser lirle srom chose oE simple Ideas.