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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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02 Names of mixed NTodes and Relations. Book III
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3. 2.
Of the Lames o) mixed Modes and Relations.
FIC Names oF mixed Nodes beiro seneral, they sand, as has
been Mewn, Tor Soris or Species of Things, cach of wtrich has
iespeculiar FSence. The Fsences ot thele Species allo, as hasbeen Mered,
arenothine but che abltraet ideas in ehe Mind, to whricti the Name is an
noxed. Thus Far the Names and Fsences oF mixed Modes, have nochins
but wrhatis common tothem, with ocher Ldeas: But it we tatee a lierle
nearer lurres ot chem, We Mall tnd, eliat ther have soinechins pecullar,
Wrhiich, perhaps, may deserve our actetitioi.
5. 2. Thetrst Particulariey P Mall observe in them is, thac the abstract
Paeas, Or, it rou pleale, the Essences ot the several species of mixed
Modes are made by the Onderstanding, Wherein ther difter trom those oE
simple ldcas: in Which Torr, the Mindhas no porver to make an onc,
but ouly receires luch as are presented to ic, by the real Existence ol
Thinss operarins uxon it.
8. 3. In the next place, these Fssences of the Species of mixed Modes,
arenot only made by theMind, bur made verr arbitrarily, made rith.
out Patternis, or reterence ro ans real Existence. Wherein cher ditter
trom those oF Substances, Which carry wich chem che supposition of some
real Being. trom wrhich ehes are calen, andio which ther are contor-
mable. Bur in ies complex Ideas oF mixed Modes, the Mind catces a li
verty noc to tollon che Existence of Thines exactly. It unites and re
tains certain Collections, as (0 mans distinet specitick Ideas, Whilst others,
that as osten occur in Nature, and are 25 plainty suggested by outvard
Things, pals neglected wichout parricular Names or Specifications. Nor
docsthe Mind in these of mixed Modos, ad in thecomplex Ldeas et Sub-
Sances, examine them by the real Fxistence of Phings; or veritie them
by Parrerns, containine such peculiar Compositions in Nature. T0
hnom wrhether his Ldea of Adulterr, or Incest, be riche, will a Nan seck it
ans whereamons Thines exictins: Or is ic true, because any onc has
Been Wirness tolueh an Action: No: but it suffices here, thac Mlen have
put togethier such a Collection into onc complex Idea, thac ralces Fhe
circherype, and specitiet idea, Whecher ever ans sucti ActiOn NerC COm
itted in rerum natura, Or HO.
5. 4. Zoundertand this arishe, e must consider wherein this matine
of these complex Ideas consists; and that it is not in the matrins any neu
Idea, but purtine cogetler chole wrhich the Mind had betore. Whercin
che Mind does these chree chines: First, Ic chules a certain number. Se-
condr, Trgiresthem connexion, and matces them into one ldea. Third.
Iy. IEciesthem together by a Name. IFvre examine hor theMindpro-
cecds in chese, and whar liberty it tatres in them, We Maii casily oblerre,
hor thele Fssences of the Species of mixed Modes, are the Workmanctrip
Ot theMtind; and consequentlr, that the Species themlelves are ot Mens
makiins.
macle BY a Volancar Collection ot Ideas put cocether intheMind, inde-
pendent trom any original Parterns in Nature, Who ill but refect, that
eliis fort of complex Lacas may be made, atsstracted, and have names siven
ehem, are s0 a species be constituted, betore any one individual ot cat
Species
f. 5. lo bod can doube, bur thac ehele Ldeaset nea oles, aib