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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Names of mixed NTodes.
Ehie Ideas a Roman annexed eo thele Larin Naimes, vere very Par differen
Trom etole wrhicl an Finclish. man expresses by those Enslisti ones. And
il cither oE thele Bould malie ule of the mealures, that those ot the other
Tanguase delign d by their names, he ould De quire out in his account.
Thele ore r0o sensible proots to be doubred; and ire Mall find this mucla
more (o, in the names oFmore abstract and compounded Ldeas; TueM a5
arethe greatest pare ol thole which male up Moral Discourses: Whole
Names, When Men come curiousty to compare, with those they are
transtated ineo, in other Languases, they will find very feir ot them ex
aetly to correspond in the whole extent of cheir Sisnisications.
d. 9. Thereason why P rakce (o parricular notice of this, is, that ve may
noc be mistatten about cenera, and Species, and Essences, as il ther
nere Thinssresulariy and constancly made by Nature, and had a real
Existence in Things; Wrhren cher appear, upon a more wars surver, tobe
nothins else bui an Arrifice ot the Onderstanding, For the easier tionify
ins such Collections oF Ideas, as it Bould otten have occation to commu-
Dicate br one general term; under nrhich, divers particulars, as tar sorth
25 they acreed to that abstract Idea, mishe be comprehended. And iF
che doubttul Cignitication of che mord species, may make it lound hariti
10lome, that lCay, thac the Species of mixed Modes are made by the
Onderstandins; vet, Ichink, ic can by no body be denied, chat tis
the Bind makces those abstrast complex sdeas, to Wrhich specisick names
are giren. And is it be true, as it is, that theMind makres thele Patterns:
for Corting and namins of Thines, I lcare it to be considered, Who mates
ehie Boundaries ofthe Sort, or Species; since with me, Species and Sorr
have no ocher difterence, thanthat of a Larin and Enslimi Ldiom.
6. 20. The near relarion thac there is between Species, Fssences; and
their reneral Names, at least in mixed Modes, will Farther appear, wrtren
we consider, that it is the Name that seems to preserre those Esences,
andsire them cheir lastins duration. For the connexion betreen the
loole parts oEthole complex Ideas, beins made by the Mind, this union,
erhich has no particular foundation in Nature, vould ceale again, ere
chere not Comethine that did, as it vere, hold it together, and lccp chC
pares rom scattering. Thoush theresore it be the Mind thar inatces the
Collection, tis the Name rrhich is, as it vere, the Rnor, that ties them
Fast together. What a vast varieis ot different. Fdeas, does the ord
Triumphus hold together, and deliver to us as one Species Fladthis Namo
Deennever made, or quite iost, We mioht, no doube, have had descripri-
ons oF wrhat passed in that Solemnier: bur vet, I chintE, that which holds
thole difterent parts together, in theuniry oE one complex Idea, is that
very ord annexed toic: Wwichout which, the several pares ol chat, vonld
no more be thoughe to matce one thins, than any other the, Which
havine never been made but once, had never been united into one com
plex Idea under one denomination. TNow much cheretore, in mixed
Nodes, theVniry necestary ro ans Ellence, depends on theMind; and
tion much the continuation and Exine ot thar Vniey, depends on the
Name in common use annexed to it, I leave to De considered by thole
Wvtro loo upon Fssences and species, as real ctablisted Things in
Nature.
8. FF. Suitable tothis, We find, that Men speatine of mixed Modes, sel
dom iriasine or take any other for species of them, but such as are (et out
by Vames: Becaule they beins ol Mans maltins only, in order t0 na
mino, no sueh Species are taken notice oF, or supposed to be, unless a
Niame be joined 1o it, as che sien oEMans havins combined into Onc
Ideo