Book,  Chapter

  1    Ded         |          speculations in the most abstract and general knowledge of
  2   Read         |        any one, not accustomed to abstract speculations, or prepossessed
  3      I,  I     |         of these general and more abstract truths, which are thought
  4      I,  I     |          of reason, those general abstract ideas are not framed in
  5      I,  I     |        that the making of general abstract ideas, and the understanding
  6      I,  I     |         innate; those general and abstract ideas being more strangers
  7      I,  I     |         large, comprehensive, and abstract than of the names annexed
  8      I,  I     |    children join in these general abstract speculations with their
  9      I,  I     |           use of more general and abstract ideas, and names standing
 10      I,  I     |          woods, will expect these abstract maxims and reputed principles
 11     II,  XI    |         ideas, and useful only to abstract reasonings, we may probably
 12     II,  XI    |        exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise, naked
 13     II,  XI    |       terms, are made.~10. Brutes abstract not. If it may be doubted
 14     II,  XI    |         general signs.~11. Brutes abstract not, yet are not bare machines.
 15     II,  XI    |         distinguish, compare, and abstract, would hardly be able to
 16     II,  XII   |         that those even large and abstract ideas are derived from sensation
 17     II,  XIII  |            I imagine that men who abstract their thoughts, and do well
 18     II,  XV    |           or space, in its simple abstract conception, to avoid confusion,
 19     II,  XXI   |           rare, and exact ones in abstract notions not so very easy,
 20     II,  XXIII |           therefore be the secret abstract nature of substance in general,
 21     II,  XXIII |    thinking being.~16. No idea of abstract substance either in body
 22     II,  XXVIII|           them; nor the different abstract considerations might be
 23     II,  XXXI  |           mind has three sorts of abstract ideas or nominal essences:~
 24     II,  XXXII |          not only, concerning its abstract complex ideas. For the natural
 25     II,  XXXII |         first thing it does is to abstract it, and then get a name
 26     II,  XXXII |       meanings of names. But this abstract idea, being something in
 27     II,  XXXII |      forward to suppose, that the abstract ideas they have in their
 28     II,  XXXII |           me to be this: That the abstract ideas of mixed modes, being
 29     II,  XXXIII|          ideas and WORDS, and our abstract ideas and general words
 30    III,  III   |           it a conformity to that abstract idea, is (as we call it)
 31    III,  III   |           natures are nothing but abstract and partial ideas of more
 32    III,  III   |        are anything else but such abstract and partial ideas of more
 33    III,  III   |         them, is nothing else but abstract ideas, more or less comprehensive,
 34    III,  III   |        man, is added to them.~12. Abstract ideas are the essences of
 35    III,  III   |       that, by being a sign of an abstract idea in the mind; to which
 36    III,  III   |        are nothing else but these abstract ideas. For the having the
 37    III,  III   |           has a conformity to the abstract idea the name man stands
 38    III,  III   |     species; it follows, that the abstract idea for which the name
 39    III,  III   |    observes amongst them, to make abstract general ideas, and set them
 40    III,  III   |       names, as agreeing to those abstract ideas, of which we have
 41    III,  III   |        marked by names, but those abstract ideas in the mind; which
 42    III,  III   |          particular beings, these abstract ideas are the medium that
 43    III,  III   |        anything but those precise abstract ideas we have in our minds.
 44    III,  III   | substances, if different from our abstract ideas, cannot be the essences
 45    III,  III   |          species of things by our abstract ideas, this is easy to resolve:
 46    III,  III   |           lead.~14. Each distinct abstract idea is a distinct essence.
 47    III,  III   |          I say these essences, or abstract ideas (which are the measures
 48    III,  III   |           substances, where their abstract ideas seem to be taken from
 49    III,  III   |        which could not be, if the abstract idea or essence to which
 50    III,  III   |          in truth, every distinct abstract idea is a distinct essence;
 51    III,  III   |         as water from earth: that abstract idea which is the essence
 52    III,  III   |           other. And thus any two abstract ideas, that in any part
 53    III,  III   |          as they agree to certain abstract ideas, to which we have
 54    III,  III   |      comes to be nothing but that abstract idea which the general,
 55    III,  III   |           whereby it answers that abstract idea whereof that name is
 56    III,  III   |           nothing else but, those abstract complex ideas to which we
 57    III,  III   |   triangle; it being not only the abstract idea to which the general
 58    III,  III   |   conformity of qualities to that abstract complex idea to which that
 59    III,  III   |          incorruptible. That such abstract ideas, with names to them,
 60    III,  III   |        names to stand for complex abstract ideas that contained no
 61    III,  III   |   essences proves them to be only abstract ideas; and is founded on
 62    III,  III   |         but this:—That men making abstract ideas, and settling them
 63    III,  IV    |          and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind which
 64    III,  V     |          1. Mixed modes stand for abstract ideas, as other general
 65    III,  V     |       shewed, are nothing but the abstract ideas in the mind, to which
 66    III,  V     |          attention.~2. First, The abstract ideas they stand for are
 67    III,  V     |     observe in them, is, that the abstract ideas, or, if you please,
 68    III,  V     |       suited to the end for which abstract ideas are made: and though
 69    III,  V     |          they would make distinct abstract ideas of all the varieties
 70    III,  V     |        with it to make a distinct abstract idea with a name, and so
 71    III,  V     |           so in the names of more abstract and compounded ideas, such
 72    III,  V     |      forth as they agreed to that abstract idea, might be comprehended.
 73    III,  V     |           is the mind makes those abstract complex ideas to which specific
 74    III,  V     |          as the mind laid by that abstract idea, and ceased actually
 75    III,  V     |         thoughts terminate in the abstract ideas of those virtues,
 76    III,  V     |      liberty unite often into one abstract idea things that, in their
 77    III,  V     |         their species. For, these abstract ideas being the workmanship
 78    III,  V     |      rather their essences, being abstract complex ideas, made arbitrarily
 79    III,  V     |        his head with a company of abstract complex ideas, which, others
 80    III,  V     |          thousand ever frames the abstract ideas of glory and ambition,
 81    III,  VI    |          sort of substance is our abstract idea to which the name is
 82    III,  VI    |         which is nothing but that abstract idea to which the name is
 83    III,  VI    |           that, take but away the abstract ideas by which we sort individuals,
 84    III,  VI    |       presently, according to the abstract idea of that sort, something
 85    III,  VI    |      essential relate only to our abstract ideas, and the names annexed
 86    III,  VI    |        which are contained in the abstract idea which any general term
 87    III,  VI    |          by that name; since that abstract idea is the very essence
 88    III,  VI    |     essential or specific but our abstract ideas? And to talk of specific
 89    III,  VI    |    without any regard had to some abstract idea, which is looked upon
 90    III,  VI    |         if, as has been said, our abstract ideas, which have names
 91    III,  VI    |          in substances from those abstract ideas of them, which I call
 92    III,  VI    |  supposition of a sort or general abstract idea, which is considered
 93    III,  VI    |     ranked under the name of some abstract idea, and then there is
 94    III,  VI    |           all one, agrees to that abstract idea, that name is annexed
 95    III,  VI    |        can that be else, but that abstract idea to which that name
 96    III,  VI    |        give the name man.~22. Our abstract ideas are to us the measures
 97    III,  VI    |         be, as they are, only our abstract ideas, which we know; and
 98    III,  VI    |          not possibly be that the abstract idea to which the name man
 99    III,  VI    |         more nor less. For if two abstract complex ideas differ either
100    III,  VI    |        essence whereof being that abstract idea, containing only malleableness
101    III,  VI    |        have, in the framing their abstract ideas, chiefly pursued that
102    III,  VI    |        under it. So that if these abstract general ideas be thought
103    III,  VI    |          that they who make those abstract ideas which are the nominal
104    III,  VI    |           determined only by that abstract idea to which every one
105    III,  VI    |           that make two different abstract ideas, consisting not exactly
106    III,  VI    |        conformity to this or that abstract idea, come to be ranked
107    III,  VI    |      workmanship of men.~38. Each abstract idea, with a name to it,
108    III,  VI    |         it will follow, that each abstract idea, with a name to it,
109    III,  VI    |     general terms signify not our abstract ideas, but something different
110    III,  VI    |          into sorts, by different abstract ideas, with general names
111    III,  VI    |          things stripped of those abstract ideas we give them. I must
112    III,  VI    |     suggest to the mind the usual abstract idea of that species; and
113    III,  VI    |    pleased in their own minds; to abstract them, and make what sounds
114    III,  VI    |     something; for certain ideas, abstract ideas. they being general
115    III,  VI    |        being general names; which abstract ideas were the essences
116    III,  VI    |      happen to agree to those his abstract ideas, without considering
117    III,  VI    |        always inadequate.~48. The abstract ideas of substances always
118    III,  VIII  |                   Chapter VIII~Of Abstract and Concrete Terms ~1. Abstract
119    III,  VIII  |   Abstract and Concrete Terms ~1. Abstract terms not predictable one
120    III,  VIII  |        been shown, has a power to abstract its ideas, and so they become
121    III,  VIII  |           distinguished. Now each abstract idea being distinct, so
122    III,  VIII  |         which permits not any two abstract words, or names of abstract
123    III,  VIII  |       abstract words, or names of abstract ideas, to be affirmed one
124    III,  VIII  |         is the affirming, not one abstract idea to be another, but
125    III,  VIII  |       idea to be another, but one abstract idea to be joined to another;
126    III,  VIII  |          joined to another; which abstract ideas, in substances, may
127    III,  VIII  |         our simple ideas have all abstract as well as concrete names:
128    III,  VIII  |            we have very few or no abstract names at all. For though
129    III,  VIII  |         to attempt the coining of abstract ones: and those few that
130    III,  VIII  |      sense, and stood not for the abstract essence of any substance;
131     IV,  I     |      possibly be otherwise.~5. Of abstract relations between ideas.
132     IV,  III   |           ideas. If the ideas are abstract, whose agreement or disagreement
133     IV,  III   |           that essence, i.e. that abstract idea, is to be found: and
134     IV,  III   |   essences of things (that is, to abstract ideas) are eternal; and
135     IV,  IV    |    Existence not required to make abstract knowledge real. For the
136     IV,  IV    |      knowledge. If those ideas be abstract, it will be general knowledge.
137     IV,  IV    |       together again, and so make abstract ideas of substances. For
138     IV,  IV    |      confine not our thoughts and abstract ideas to names, as if there
139     IV,  IV    |          them: whereas if we will abstract from those names, and the
140     IV,  IV    |        were anything else but our abstract ideas (such as they are)
141     IV,  VI    |         or, which is all one, the abstract idea which the general term
142     IV,  VI    |         of realities, than barely abstract ideas with names to them.
143     IV,  VI    |          as they agree to several abstract ideas of which we make those
144     IV,  VI    |     produced; we might frame such abstract ideas of them as would furnish
145     IV,  VI    |          contemplation of our own abstract ideas. Wherever we perceive
146     IV,  VI    |           truths. But because the abstract ideas of substances, for
147     IV,  VI    |          might by those frame our abstract ideas of them. I have mentioned
148     IV,  VI    |        them. This is evident, the abstract complex ideas of substances.
149     IV,  VI    |      joined to it. This being the abstract idea, and consequently the
150     IV,  VI    |         essence of man, with this abstract idea that name stands for.
151     IV,  VI    |          contemplation of our own abstract ideas that alone is able
152     IV,  VII   |          be more or less general, abstract, and comprehensive. It is
153     IV,  VII   |           next to particular. For abstract ideas are not so obvious
154     IV,  VII   |           is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult,)
155     IV,  VII   |      enough to show that the most abstract and general ideas are not
156     IV,  VII   |          the more simple and less abstract being the most familiar,
157     IV,  VIII  |   following marks:~Predication in abstract. First, All propositions
158     IV,  VIII  |          propositions wherein two abstract terms are affirmed one of
159     IV,  VIII  |           of sounds. For since no abstract idea can be the same with
160     IV,  VIII  |        other but itself, when its abstract name is affirmed of any
161     IV,  IX    |          things; which being only abstract ideas, and thereby removed
162     IV,  IX    |         existing, which, in their abstract natures, have no known necessary
163     IV,  XI    |          employed about the clear abstract ideas of our own minds;
164     IV,  XI    |  agreement or disagreement of our abstract ideas, and their dependence
165     IV,  XI    |        general, if I have made an abstract idea of such a species,
166     IV,  XI    |         to be discovered in those abstract ideas.~14. And all general
167     IV,  XI    |          known to be true concern abstract ideas. In the former case,
168     IV,  XI    |           till he, having got the abstract ideas, joined or separated
169     IV,  XI    |    because, being once made about abstract ideas, so as to be true,
170     IV,  XI    |       propositions concerning any abstract ideas that are once true
171     IV,  XII   |    comparing our more general and abstract ideas, which are the workmanship
172     IV,  XII   |   knowledge is by considering our abstract ideas. We must, therefore,
173     IV,  XII   |        habitudes and relations of abstract ideas. A sagacious and methodical
174     IV,  XII   |           not by contemplation of abstract ideas, but only by experience.
175     IV,  XII   |          in the other, (where our abstract ideas are real as well as
176     IV,  XII   |       bare contemplation of their abstract ideas will carry us but