An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 202

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1. 02 Names of mixed NTodes and Relations. Book III
2. :H
3. 3. 2.
4. Of the Lames o) mixed Modes and Relations.
5. FIC Names oF mixed Nodes beiro seneral, they sand, as has
6. been Mewn, Tor Soris or Species of Things, cach of wtrich has
7. iespeculiar FSence. The Fsences ot thele Species allo, as hasbeen Mered,
8. arenothine but che abltraet ideas in ehe Mind, to whricti the Name is an
9. noxed. Thus Far the Names and Fsences oF mixed Modes, have nochins
10. but wrhatis common tothem, with ocher Ldeas: But it we tatee a lierle
11. nearer lurres ot chem, We Mall tnd, eliat ther have soinechins pecullar,
12. Wrhiich, perhaps, may deserve our actetitioi.
13. 5. 2. Thetrst Particulariey P Mall observe in them is, thac the abstract
14. Paeas, Or, it rou pleale, the Essences ot the several species of mixed
15. Modes are made by the Onderstanding, Wherein ther difter trom those oE
16. simple ldcas: in Which Torr, the Mindhas no porver to make an onc,
17. but ouly receires luch as are presented to ic, by the real Existence ol
18. Thinss operarins uxon it.
19. 8. 3. In the next place, these Fssences of the Species of mixed Modes,
20. arenot only made by theMind, bur made verr arbitrarily, made rith.
21. out Patternis, or reterence ro ans real Existence. Wherein cher ditter
22. trom those oF Substances, Which carry wich chem che supposition of some
23. real Being. trom wrhich ehes are calen, andio which ther are contor-
24. mable. Bur in ies complex Ideas oF mixed Modes, the Mind catces a li
25. verty noc to tollon che Existence of Thines exactly. It unites and re
26. tains certain Collections, as (0 mans distinet specitick Ideas, Whilst others,
27. that as osten occur in Nature, and are 25 plainty suggested by outvard
28. Things, pals neglected wichout parricular Names or Specifications. Nor
29. docsthe Mind in these of mixed Modos, ad in thecomplex Ldeas et Sub-
30. Sances, examine them by the real Fxistence of Phings; or veritie them
31. by Parrerns, containine such peculiar Compositions in Nature. T0
32. hnom wrhether his Ldea of Adulterr, or Incest, be riche, will a Nan seck it
33. ans whereamons Thines exictins: Or is ic true, because any onc has
34. Been Wirness tolueh an Action: No: but it suffices here, thac Mlen have
35. put togethier such a Collection into onc complex Idea, thac ralces Fhe
36. circherype, and specitiet idea, Whecher ever ans sucti ActiOn NerC COm
37. itted in rerum natura, Or HO.
38. 5. 4. Zoundertand this arishe, e must consider wherein this matine
39. of these complex Ideas consists; and that it is not in the matrins any neu
40. Idea, but purtine cogetler chole wrhich the Mind had betore. Whercin
41. che Mind does these chree chines: First, Ic chules a certain number. Se-
42. condr, Trgiresthem connexion, and matces them into one ldea. Third.
43. Iy. IEciesthem together by a Name. IFvre examine hor theMindpro-
44. cecds in chese, and whar liberty it tatres in them, We Maii casily oblerre,
45. hor thele Fssences of the Species of mixed Modes, are the Workmanctrip
46. Ot theMtind; and consequentlr, that the Species themlelves are ot Mens
47. makiins.
48. macle BY a Volancar Collection ot Ideas put cocether intheMind, inde-
49. pendent trom any original Parterns in Nature, Who ill but refect, that
50. eliis fort of complex Lacas may be made, atsstracted, and have names siven
51. ehem, are s0 a species be constituted, betore any one individual ot cat
52. Species
53. f. 5. lo bod can doube, bur thac ehele Ldeaset nea oles, aib

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