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  1   Read         |             or fix it there with a clear and lasting impression.
  2   Read         |        expressing it has made very clear and intelligible; though
  3   Read         |           are most concerned to be clear in. Upon a closer inspection
  4   Read         |          thereupon said was this:—~Clear and distinct ideas are terms
  5   Read         |          or determined, instead of clear and distinct, as more likely
  6   Read         |             he in vain pretends to clear or distinct ideas: it is
  7   Read         |           liable to mistakes, than clear and distinct: and where
  8    Int         |      cannot frame in our minds any clear or distinct perceptions,
  9    Int         |         which, never coming to any clear resolution, are proper only
 10      I,  I     |          any signification, go for clear reasons to those who, being
 11      I,  I     |           truths depends on having clear and distinct ideas of what
 12      I,  I     |            settled in his mind the clear and distinct ideas that
 13      I,  I     |          being proposed: but it is clear that whosoever does so,
 14      I,  II    |             No moral principles so clear and so generally received
 15      I,  II    |          whom they are to be found clear and distinct; and that one
 16      I,  II    |         Though I allow these to be clear truths, and such as, if
 17      I,  II    |            alike, and they must be clear in everybody; and if they
 18      I,  III   |    impression, and consequently so clear and obvious to us that we
 19      I,  III   |     sameness is not so settled and clear as to deserve to be thought
 20      I,  III   |         those innate ideas are not clear and distinct, so as to be
 21      I,  III   |       themselves, have naturally a clear idea of it.~6. Whole and
 22      I,  III   |       amongst grown men who have a clear and distinct notion of it.
 23      I,  III   |            have no very strong and clear impressions of a Deity upon
 24      I,  III   |           it should have been some clear and uniform idea of Himself;
 25      I,  III   |            is not, we have no such clear idea at all; and therefore
 26      I,  III   |   mathematics itself, which are as clear and evident as this; because,
 27      I,  III   |        employed, were able to make clear and evident to him. But
 28      I,  III   |        premised, that hitherto,—to clear my way to those foundations
 29     II,  I     |          cannot but have plain and clear ideas of them; yet, unless
 30     II,  I     |  attentively, he will no more have clear and distinct ideas of all
 31     II,  I     |         and some have not any very clear or perfect ideas of the
 32     II,  I     |      enough to leave in their mind clear, distinct, lasting ideas,
 33     II,  I     |      hypothesis; and none of those clear truths, that either their
 34     II,  II    |          plainer to a man than the clear and distinct perception
 35     II,  IV    |      whereby, I think, we have the clear idea of space without solidity.
 36     II,  IV    |      persuade themselves they have clear and distinct ideas; and
 37     II,  IV    |            they think they have as clear as any idea they can have
 38     II,  IV    |       superficies being equally as clear without as with the idea
 39     II,  IV    |           than if we went about to clear up the darkness of a blind
 40     II,  VIII  |       motion and rest, are equally clear and positive ideas in the
 41     II,  VIII  |          man looks on it, cause as clear and positive idea in his
 42     II,  VIII  |           though covered over with clear sunshine? And the picture
 43     II,  VIII  |           Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered
 44     II,  XI    |            truth depends upon this clear discerning faculty of the
 45     II,  XI    |           contributes that they be clear and determinate. And when
 46     II,  XI    |        that man’s mind would be as clear and distinct from the idea
 47     II,  XI    |        most men’s minds, much more clear, precise, and distinct than
 48     II,  XIII  |            they that ask show me a clear distinct idea of substance.~
 49     II,  XIII  |         noise with sounds, without clear and distinct significations.
 50     II,  XIII  |     ordinary use it has scarce one clear distinct signification.
 51     II,  XIII  |            a notable way of having clear ideas of letters and paper.
 52     II,  XIII  |            never make out;—our own clear and distinct ideas plainly
 53     II,  XIII  |        plain to me—that we have as clear an idea of space distinct
 54     II,  XIII  |       propose it only for the more clear and distinct way of speaking.~
 55     II,  XIII  |           28. Men differ little in clear, simple ideas. The knowing
 56     II,  XIII  |           resolves them into those clear and distinct simple ones,
 57     II,  XIV   |            us with these ideas, as clear and distinct as many others
 58     II,  XIV   |          By which it is to me very clear, that men derive their ideas
 59     II,  XIV   |           parts of a man, it is as clear as any demonstration can
 60     II,  XIV   |      before showed: and we have as clear an idea of succession and
 61     II,  XIV   |           duration still remaining clear, though our measures of
 62     II,  XIV   |       revolution, but the having a clear idea of the length of some
 63     II,  XV    |           and we may have the more clear and distinct conception
 64     II,  XV    |       quantities. For a man has as clear an idea of the difference
 65     II,  XV    |       divisions that alone remains clear and distinct; as will easily
 66     II,  XV    |           of them, whereof we have clear and distinct ideas, may
 67     II,  XVI   |            be discovered; which is clear otherwise in number, where,
 68     II,  XVI   |         pretty well, and have very clear conceptions of several other
 69     II,  XVII  |         bodies, will always remain clear and evident: the idea of
 70     II,  XVII  |           reflects on it. But, how clear soever this idea of the
 71     II,  XVII  |       though it seems to be pretty clear when we consider nothing
 72     II,  XVII  |   contemplation of greatness, is a clear picture, and positive in
 73     II,  XVII  |            so much is positive and clear. 2. The idea of greater
 74     II,  XVII  |            idea of greater is also clear; but it is but a comparative
 75     II,  XVII  |             For he has no positive clear idea of the largeness of
 76     II,  XVII  |           say a man has a positive clear idea of any quantity, without
 77     II,  XVII  |           say, he has the positive clear idea of the number of the
 78     II,  XVII  |       matter, or help us to a more clear and positive idea of infinite
 79     II,  XVII  |           find I cannot attain any clear comprehension of it.~18.
 80     II,  XVII  |            an inch diameter, has a clear and positive idea of it
 81     II,  XVII  |       never comes at all to have a clear and positive idea of that
 82     II,  XVII  |           to the having a positive clear idea of what remains to
 83     II,  XVII  |            we find that we have as clear an idea of an infinite duration
 84     II,  XVII  |         must be allowed to have as clear an idea of infinite space
 85     II,  XVII  |          themselves that they have clear positive comprehensive ideas
 86     II,  XXI   |        senses, do not afford us so clear and distinct an idea of
 87     II,  XXI   |            any one thinks he has a clear idea of power, it serves
 88     II,  XXI   |             may be understood in a clear and distinct sense—yet I
 89     II,  XXI   |      instance or two may make this clear.~9. Supposes understanding
 90     II,  XXI   |           of explaining and giving clear notions of internal actions
 91     II,  XXI   |     happiness, yet they may have a clear view of good, great and
 92     II,  XXI   |          future state, and under a clear conviction that it is not
 93     II,  XXI   |        will give us, as I think, a clear view into the state of human
 94     II,  XXI   |          any other grounds, fairly clear this subject of liberty
 95     II,  XXIII |           use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk
 96     II,  XXIII |      whether any one has any other clear idea, further than of certain
 97     II,  XXIII |         know not what it is.~4. No clear or distinct idea of substance
 98     II,  XXIII |           it be certain we have no clear or distinct idea of that
 99     II,  XXIII |           suppose a support.~5. As clear an idea of spiritual substance
100     II,  XXIII |             do subsist, we have as clear a notion of the substance
101     II,  XXIII |           body, because we have no clear and distinct idea of the
102     II,  XXIII |         spirit, because we have no clear and distinct idea of the
103     II,  XXIII |          we should have a perfect, clear, and adequate knowledge
104     II,  XXIII |           spiritual substances, as clear as of bodily substances.
105     II,  XXIII |           other things, we have as clear a perception and notion
106     II,  XXIII |           of matter. The one is as clear and distinct an idea as
107     II,  XXIII |            moving a body, being as clear and distinct ideas as the
108     II,  XXIII |          be allowed to afford us a clear idea enough of its motion,
109     II,  XXIII |      another. So that perhaps, how clear an idea soever we think
110     II,  XXIII |          as easy for him to have a clear idea how the soul thinks
111     II,  XXIII |     doubted? The matter of fact is clear, I confess; but when we
112     II,  XXIII |           have by daily experience clear evidence of motion produced
113     II,  XXIII |           to spirit is at least as clear as that which belongs to
114     II,  XXIII |             we have as many and as clear ideas belonging to spirit
115     II,  XXIII |          of thinking in spirit, as clear as of extension in body;
116     II,  XXIII |       moment furnishes us with the clear ideas both of the one and
117     II,  XXIII |          impulse, we have distinct clear ideas of: so likewise we
118     II,  XXIII |            know, and have distinct clear ideas, of two primary qualities
119     II,  XXIII |            in bodies, and have the clear distinct ideas of them;
120     II,  XXIII |        from another: and having as clear and distinct ideas in us
121     II,  XXIII |      supposed something we have no clear distinct idea at all.~Secondly,
122     II,  XXV   |     whereof it is easier to have a clear idea, than of humanity;
123     II,  XXV   |          he cannot but have a very clear idea of that relation. The
124     II,  XXV   |         term stands for, to have a clear conception of that which
125     II,  XXV   |       without having a perfect and clear idea of the thing it is
126     II,  XXV   |        other was hatched, I have a clear idea of the relation of
127     II,  XXV   |           of all our knowledge. To clear this, I shall show it in
128     II,  XXVIII|          19. We have ordinarily as clear a notion of the relation,
129     II,  XXVIII|            part, if not always, as clear a notion of the relation
130     II,  XXVIII|        whereof we have commonly as clear ideas as of any other whatsoever;
131     II,  XXVIII|           at all. For, if I have a clear idea of sweetness, light,
132     II,  XXVIII|          Sempronia; and so have as clear a notion of brothers as
133     II,  XXVIII|          the parsley-bed, I had as clear a notion of the relation
134     II,  XXVIII|            are capable of being as clear and distinct in the minds
135     II,  XXIX  |                    Chapter XXIX~Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and
136     II,  XXIX  |     Confused Ideas ~1. Ideas, some clear and distinct, others obscure
137     II,  XXIX  |            first is, that some are clear and others obscure; some
138     II,  XXIX  |            and others confused.~2. Clear and obscure explained by
139     II,  XXIX  |        understand what is meant by clear and obscure in our ideas,
140     II,  XXIX  |         reflecting on what we call clear and obscure in the objects
141     II,  XXIX  |       manner, our simple ideas are clear, when they are such as the
142     II,  XXIX  |            consider them, they are clear ideas. So far as they either
143     II,  XXIX  |           simple ones, so they are clear, when the ideas that go
144     II,  XXIX  |           to their composition are clear, and the number and order
145     II,  XXIX  |         sufficient force to make a clear impression: in any of these
146     II,  XXIX  |           and confused, what. As a clear idea is that whereof the
147     II,  XXIX  |            may accordingly be very clear and distinct in one part,
148     II,  XXIX  |          of the idea which we have clear; and the name which is familiar
149     II,  XXIX  |          that thinks so may have a clear idea of duration; he may
150     II,  XXIX  |       duration; he may also have a clear idea of a very great length
151     II,  XXIX  |       duration; he may also have a clear idea of the comparison of
152     II,  XXIX  |      matter. In matter, we have no clear ideas of the smallness of
153     II,  XXIX  |          infinitum, though we have clear ideas of division and divisibility,
154     II,  XXIX  |        divisibility, and have also clear ideas of parts made out
155     II,  XXIX  |            and so all that we have clear and distinct ideas of is
156     II,  XXIX  |  progressions, I think, we have no clear nor distinct idea at all.
157     II,  XXIX  |             for my part, I have no clear distinct ideas of the different
158     II,  XXIX  |            number: so that we have clear distinct ideas, we may say,
159     II,  XXIX  |        extension, our distinct and clear ideas are only of numbers:
160     II,  XXIX  |           only of numbers: but the clear distinct ideas of extension
161     II,  XXIX  |             We have, it is true, a clear idea of division, as often
162     II,  XXIX  |          thereby we have no more a clear idea of infinite parts in
163     II,  XXIX  |          in matter, than we have a clear idea of an infinite number,
164     II,  XXIX  |   divisibility giving us no more a clear and distinct idea of actually
165     II,  XXIX  |           may so speak) gives us a clear and distinct idea of an
166     II,  XXIX  |      bigger: and we have no more a clear positive idea of it, when
167     II,  XXIX  |            numbers of years, is as clear to the one as the other;
168     II,  XXIX  |            neither of them has any clear positive idea of it at all.
169     II,  XXIX  |    accustomed to have, we lose the clear distinct idea of that space:
170     II,  XXXI  |    signification of their names as clear and as little cumbersome
171     II,  XXXIII|          though laid before him as clear as daylight.~3. Not from
172    III,  IV    |            it have often no more a clear conception of the meaning
173    III,  VI    |     reasons above said, we have no clear distinct ideas.~13. The
174    III,  VI    |       essences. By all which it is clear, that our distinguishing
175    III,  VI    |         which the watchmaker has a clear idea of. And yet it is plain
176    III,  VI    |            and ideas a little more clear; and to show how the complex
177    III,  VII   |        enough that a man has ideas clear and distinct in his thoughts,
178    III,  IX    |         ordinary use appeared very clear and determined. I was once
179    III,  IX    |       number, of which men have so clear and distinct ideas. Who
180    III,  X     |            render these signs less clear and distinct in their signification
181    III,  X     |            without any, or without clear ideas. First, In this kind
182    III,  X     |         the using of words without clear and distinct ideas; or,
183    III,  X     |           words introduced without clear ideas annexed to them, even
184    III,  X     |          use, not to stand for any clear and distinct ideas. These,
185    III,  X     |           notation have scarce any clear and distinct ideas which
186    III,  X     |         sects have not been wholly clear of it. There are scarce
187    III,  X     |           word which will not be a clear instance of this. Life is
188    III,  X     |            easy to perceive that a clear, distinct, settled idea
189    III,  XI    |         nothing but what they have clear and distinct ideas of: which
190    III,  XI    |           and mistake, without any clear judgment or knowledge?~5.
191    III,  XI    |        that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what
192    III,  XI    |            they be simple, must be clear and distinct; if complex,
193    III,  XI    |       according to law, hath not a clear and distinct idea what law
194    III,  XI    |            about moral things very clear and distinct. For since
195    III,  XI    |         any other body, he has his clear, settled idea, which varies
196    III,  XI    |          can make moral discourses clear. This I have here mentioned,
197    III,  XI    |          morality be not much more clear than those in natural philosophy:
198    III,  XI    |      immersed in flesh may have as clear ideas of the radical constitution
199     IV,  I     |         his memory, by a foregoing clear and full perception, whereof
200     IV,  I     |            memory is not always so clear as actual perception, and
201     IV,  II    |          presently filled with the clear light of it. It is on this
202     IV,  II    |            it is not altogether so clear and bright, nor the assent
203     IV,  II    |            in the other.~6. Not so clear as intuitive knowledge.
204     IV,  II    |         demonstration is also very clear; yet it is often with a
205     IV,  II    |          the least difference very clear and perceivable: and though
206     IV,  II    |           15. Knowledge not always clear, where the ideas that enter
207     IV,  II    |       ideas that enter into it are clear. But since our knowledge
208     IV,  II    |           that where our ideas are clear and distinct, or obscure
209     IV,  II    |             v.g. a man that has as clear ideas of the angles of a
210     IV,  II    |       confused, cannot produce any clear or distinct knowledge; because,
211     IV,  III   |       creatures, being such as are clear in us, would, I suppose,
212     IV,  III   |             whereof the mind has a clear perception: yet, without
213     IV,  III   |     necessary consequence from our clear and distinct ideas, and
214     IV,  III   |        discovering how far we have clear and distinct ideas, we confine
215     IV,  III   |       themselves, when a positive, clear, distinct one of substance
216     IV,  III   |           as guess, much less have clear and distinct ideas of them.~
217     IV,  III   |     sensible qualities, we have as clear and distinct ideas of sage
218     IV,  IV    |       demonstrations are plain and clear. Just the same is it in
219     IV,  IV    |          one great obstacle to our clear and distinct knowledge,
220     IV,  V     |            propositions. To form a clear notion of truth, it is very
221     IV,  V     |           are those things we have clear and perfect established
222     IV,  V     |  themselves, because they are more clear, certain, and distinct,
223     IV,  V     |         with that of centaur is as clear and visible to the mind,
224     IV,  VI    |         the best and surest way to clear and distinct knowledge:
225     IV,  VI    |         minds, though they carry a clear and determinate signification
226     IV,  VII   |     equally weighed, they are more clear and evident than the particular
227     IV,  VII   |           being only our constant, clear, and distinct knowledge
228     IV,  VII   |         called principles, be very clear, and their use not dangerous
229     IV,  VII   |         for proof, but such as are clear by themselves without them,
230     IV,  VII   | contradictory propositions; and is clear in the demonstrations above
231     IV,  VII   |            nor thought of, but the clear, distinct perception he
232     IV,  VII   |           a man; because, having a clear knowledge of such a complex
233     IV,  VII   |            in proofs where we have clear and distinct ideas. So that,
234     IV,  VIII  |            whether it contains any clear and real idea, it shows
235     IV,  VIII  |           may often meet with very clear and coherent discourses,
236     IV,  VIII  |     significations, make plain and clear deductions of words one
237     IV,  VIII  |            discourses coherent and clear, (how little soever they
238     IV,  X     |          reason, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as
239     IV,  X     |           in themselves capable of clear demonstration. To show,
240     IV,  X     |           question, that man has a clear idea of his own being; he
241     IV,  X     |            judge it as certain and clear a truth as can anywhere
242     IV,  X     |        necessarily follow: yet, to clear up this a little further,
243     IV,  X     |        said, that, though it be as clear as demonstration can make
244     IV,  XI    |          reason employed about the clear abstract ideas of our own
245     IV,  XI    |           being, nor to a perfect, clear, comprehensive knowledge
246     IV,  XI    |         contrary to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot
247     IV,  XII   |        them.~3. But from comparing clear and distinct ideas. But
248     IV,  XII   |            beginning; but from the clear, distinct, complete ideas
249     IV,  XII   |          of equality and excess so clear between some of them, that
250     IV,  XII   |           error.~6. But to compare clear, complete ideas, under steady
251     IV,  XII   |           get and fix in our minds clear, distinct, and complete
252     IV,  XII   |            shall get more true and clear knowledge by the conduct
253     IV,  XII   |            lead us into a full and clear discovery of our duty and
254     IV,  XII   |            natural philosophy.~14. Clear and distinct ideas with
255     IV,  XII   |            complex ones, should be clear and distinct in our minds.
256     IV,  XII   |          have certain, perfect, or clear knowledge.~Secondly, The
257     IV,  XII   |         that has not a perfect and clear idea of those angles or
258     IV,  XIII  |           nor can he be surer in a clear morning that the sun is
259     IV,  XIII  |           ever so certain, ever so clear, he may be ignorant of either,
260     IV,  XIV   |        guide him in the absence of clear and certain knowledge. He
261     IV,  XIV   |          man to supply the want of clear and certain knowledge, in
262     IV,  XVI   |            conclude that he hath a clear and full view; and that
263     IV,  XVII  |           it is taken for true and clear principles: sometimes for
264     IV,  XVII  |          principles: sometimes for clear and fair deductions from
265     IV,  XVII  |         them, and laying them in a clear and fit order, to make their
266     IV,  XVII  |          men that reason exceeding clear and rightly, who know not
267     IV,  XVII  |          our knowledge, is equally clear and certain, whether either,
268     IV,  XVII  |        matter; but having perfect, clear, and distinct ideas of number,
269     IV,  XVII  |            there, a little of this clear light, some sparks of bright
270     IV,  XVII  |            easy, nor altogether so clear as intuitive knowledge.
271     IV,  XVII  |          and the probability is so clear and strong, that assent
272     IV,  XVII  |           or irreconcilable to our clear and distinct ideas. Thus
273     IV,  XVIII |       certainty, as far as we want clear and determined specific
274     IV,  XVIII |    whatsoever truth we come to the clear discovery of, from the knowledge
275     IV,  XVIII |         knowledge we have from the clear and distinct perception
276     IV,  XVIII |          say he has as certain and clear a knowledge of the flood
277     IV,  XVIII |            be admitted against the clear evidence of reason. In propositions,
278     IV,  XVIII |        certainty is built upon the clear perception of the agreement
279     IV,  XVIII |        direct contradiction to the clear evidence of his own understanding.
280     IV,  XVIII |           directly contrary to our clear and distinct knowledge;
281     IV,  XVIII |            be contradictory to our clear intuitive knowledge. Because
282     IV,  XVIII |          therefore contrary to the clear perception of the agreement
283     IV,  XVIII |        clearer (and perhaps not so clear) evidence of anything to
284     IV,  XVIII |          have a ground to quit the clear evidence of its reason,
285     IV,  XVIII |           therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas,
286     IV,  XVIII |         obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of
287     IV,  XVIII |    authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.~7. Things
288     IV,  XVIII |            the mind has of its own clear and distinct ideas; there
289     IV,  XVIII |  proposition which contradicts the clear principles and evidence
290     IV,  XVIII |     certainly true or false, there clear revelation, as another principle
291     IV,  XVIII |         sense we understand it, so clear and so certain as that of
292     IV,  XVIII |         and inconsistent with, the clear and self-evident dictates
293     IV,  XIX   |          cannot be mistaken; it is clear and visible there, like
294     IV,  XIX   |       light from heaven is strong, clear, and pure; carries its own
295     IV,  XIX   |          These men have, they say, clear light, and they see; they
296     IV,  XX    |          probability, but even the clear evidence of his senses,
297     IV,  XX    |         vain bring the evidence of clear reasons against his doctrine.
298     IV,  XX    |           sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression,
299     IV,  XX    |           few discourses so short, clear, and consistent, to which
300     IV,  XX    |      experience, are so cogent and clear, and some testimonies in
301     IV,  XX    |       probabilities. In other less clear cases, I think it is in