Book,  Chapter

  1     II,  XIII |        enough to look into the pure essences of things.~26. Essences
  2     II,  XIII |             essences of things.~26. Essences of things. If those ideas
  3     II,  XIX  |    intention and remission: but the essences of things are not conceived
  4     II,  XXXI |     substances, as referred to real essences, not adequate. Thirdly,
  5     II,  XXXI |       supposed to have certain real essences, whereby they are of this
  6     II,  XXXI |            their ideas to such real essences, as to their archetypes.
  7     II,  XXXI |            suppose certain specific essences of substances, which each
  8     II,  XXXI | distinguished by such specific real essences. Who is there almost, who
  9     II,  XXXI |          you demand what those real essences are, it is plain men are
 10     II,  XXXI |              being referred to real essences, as to archetypes which
 11     II,  XXXI |          know nothing of these real essences, there is nothing more ordinary
 12     II,  XXXI |             sorts of things to such essences. The particular parcel of
 13     II,  XXXI |        other natural ones: of which essences I confess I have no distinct
 14     II,  XXXI |       Because men know not the real essences of substances. Now, then,
 15     II,  XXXI |         supposition of unknown real essences, whereby they are distinguished,
 16     II,  XXXI |         know not what real specific essences: yet they arrive not at
 17     II,  XXXI |           abstract ideas or nominal essences:~First, simple ideas, which
 18     II,  XXXI |             they are archetypes and essences of modes that may exist;
 19     II,  XXXII|        existence; and supposed real essences, are what men usually refer
 20     II,  XXXII|             them knowledge of their essences. If therefore we will warily
 21     II,  XXXII|            be false in reference to essences of things. Secondly, neither
 22     II,  XXXII|      representations of the unknown essences of things, is so evident
 23     II,  XXXII|           in substances; their real essences lie in a little compass,
 24    III,  III  |              Abstract ideas are the essences of genera and species. The
 25    III,  III  |      Whereby it is evident that the essences of the sorts, or, if the
 26    III,  III  |           easy to observe, that the essences of the sorts of things,
 27    III,  III  |             signs? And what are the essences of those species set out
 28    III,  III  |            unites them: so that the essences of species, as distinguished
 29    III,  III  |         therefore the supposed real essences of substances, if different
 30    III,  III  |       abstract ideas, cannot be the essences of the species we rank things
 31    III,  III  |         rationally as two different essences be the essence of one species:
 32    III,  III  |             herein by supposed real essences, he will, I suppose, be
 33    III,  III  |             wonder that I say these essences, or abstract ideas (which
 34    III,  III  |             essence.” But since the essences of things are thought by
 35    III,  III  |           of the word essence.~Real essences. First, Essence may be taken
 36    III,  III  |       giving them any name.~Nominal essences. Secondly, The learning
 37    III,  III  |             use.~These two sorts of essences, I suppose, may not unfitly
 38    III,  III  |         distinguished by their real essences, useless. Concerning the
 39    III,  III  |        useless. Concerning the real essences of corporeal substances (
 40    III,  III  |             certain number of those essences, according to which all
 41    III,  III  |      opinions, which supposes these essences as a certain number of forms
 42    III,  III  |              yet the supposition of essences that cannot be known; and
 43    III,  III  |         content ourselves with such essences of the sorts or species
 44    III,  III  |            different in substances. Essences being thus distinguished
 45    III,  III  |           finger; wherein these two essences are apparently different.
 46    III,  III  |             But this distinction of essences, belonging particularly
 47    III,  III  |            treat of more fully.~19. Essences ingenerable and incorruptible.
 48    III,  III  |           have been speaking of are essences, may further appear by what
 49    III,  III  |         what we are told concerning essences, viz. that they are all
 50    III,  III  |             perishes with them. But essences being taken for ideas established
 51    III,  III  |         remain the same; and so the essences of those species are preserved
 52    III,  III  |     doctrine of the immutability of essences proves them to be only abstract
 53    III,  III  |       genera and species, and their essences, amounts to no more but
 54    III,  IV   |        always both real and nominal essences. Secondly, The names of
 55    III,  IV   |     anything but barely the nominal essences of those species; as we
 56    III,  V    |           its peculiar essence. The essences of these species also, as
 57    III,  V    |              Thus far the names and essences of mixed modes have nothing
 58    III,  V    |              or, if you please, the essences, of the several species
 59    III,  V    |            In the next place, these essences of the species of mixed
 60    III,  V    |            easily observe how these essences of the species of mixed
 61    III,  V    |           see how arbitrarily these essences of mixed modes are made
 62    III,  V    |       though these complex ideas or essences of mixed modes depend on
 63    III,  V    |       genera and species, and their essences, as if they were things
 64    III,  V    |           there is between species, essences, and their general name,
 65    III,  V    |             seems to preserve those essences, and give them their lasting
 66    III,  V    |   considered by those who look upon essences and species as real established
 67    III,  V    |            been said concerning the essences of the species of mixed
 68    III,  V    |            I think it is that these essences of the species of mixed
 69    III,  V    |         stand always for their real essences, which are the workmanship
 70    III,  V    |             signification) the real essences of their species. For, these
 71    III,  V    |            species, or rather their essences, being abstract complex
 72    III,  V    |         what a pudder is made about essences, and how much all sorts
 73    III,  VI   |           that species.~5. The only essences perceived by us in individual
 74    III,  VI   |             ideas.~6. Even the real essences of individual substances
 75    III,  VI   |         that complex idea. Here are essences and properties, but all
 76    III,  VI   |              Indeed, as to the real essences of substances, we only suppose
 77    III,  VI   |    considered is, by which of those essences it is that substances are
 78    III,  VI   |    substances, to know what sort of essences they stand for.~8. The nature
 79    III,  VI   |             precise, distinct, real essences in them, is plain from hence:—
 80    III,  VI   |             according to their real essences, it would be as impossible
 81    III,  VI   |      denominate them, by their real essences; because we know them not.
 82    III,  VI   | contrivances and inconceivable real essences of plants or animals, every
 83    III,  VI   |          under names, by their real essences, that are so far from our
 84    III,  VI   |             and goats by their real essences, that are unknown to him,
 85    III,  VI   |          and by their internal real essences determine the boundaries
 86    III,  VI   |             consists in the nominal essences the mind makes, and not
 87    III,  VI   |          makes, and not in the real essences to be found in the things
 88    III,  VI   |        nature into species, by real essences, according as we distinguish
 89    III,  VI   |            a certain number of real essences. To distinguish substantial
 90    III,  VI   |           there are certain precise essences or forms of things, whereby
 91    III,  VI   |       certain regulated established essences, which are to be the models
 92    III,  VI   |           can have no ideas of real essences. Fourthly, The real essences
 93    III,  VI   |        essences. Fourthly, The real essences of those things which we
 94    III,  VI   |           points, the supposed real essences of things stand us not in
 95    III,  VI   |            species.~19. Our nominal essences of substances not perfect
 96    III,  VI   |           that flow from their real essences. Fifthly, The only imaginable
 97    III,  VI   |           from their different real essences, we should thereby distinguish
 98    III,  VI   |           names independent of real essences. By all which it is clear,
 99    III,  VI   |           all founded on their real essences; nor can we pretend to range
100    III,  VI   |         though we know not the real essences of things; all we can do
101    III,  VI   |          the truth of these nominal essences. For example: there be that
102    III,  VI   |         qualities that men make the essences of their several sorts of
103    III,  VI   |           any insight into the real essences, nor trouble themselves
104    III,  VI   |         essential.~25. The specific essences that are commonly made by
105    III,  VI   |             supposing that the real essences of substances were discoverable
106    III,  VI   |          themselves about forms and essences, that have made the general
107    III,  VI   |       nominal and not by their real essences, the next thing to be considered
108    III,  VI   |           is how, and by whom these essences come to be made. As to the
109    III,  VI   |             the church.~27. Nominal essences of particular substances
110    III,  VI   |         undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves,
111    III,  VI   |          not happen, if the nominal essences, whereby we limit and distinguish
112    III,  VI   |            But though these nominal essences of substances are made by
113    III,  VI   |       really exist.~29. Our nominal essences of substances usually consist
114    III,  VI   |            that, though the nominal essences of substances are all supposed
115    III,  VI   |             not yet a name for.~31. Essences of species under the same
116    III,  VI   |             subject, have different essences of gold, which must therefore
117    III,  VI   |           are distinguished by real essences made by nature, he must
118    III,  VI   |          very liberal of these real essences, making one for body, another
119    III,  VI   |          for a horse; and all these essences liberally bestowed upon
120    III,  VI   |           any consideration of real essences, or substantial forms; which
121    III,  VI   |             For, it being different essences alone that make different
122    III,  VI   |         ideas which are the nominal essences do thereby make the species,
123    III,  VI   |          are made by men; since the essences of the species, distinguished
124    III,  VI   |          speak of the supposed real essences and species of things, as
125    III,  VI   |            use of by us; and of the essences belonging to those species:
126    III,  VI   |           ask wherein consisted the essences of these two distinct species
127    III,  VI   |             abstract ideas were the essences of the species distinguished
128    III,  VI   |           and distinguished by real essences.~50. Which supposition is
129    III,  VIII |           ideas, and so they become essences, general essences, whereby
130    III,  VIII |            become essences, general essences, whereby the sorts of things
131    III,  VIII |           have no ideas of the real essences of substances, since they
132    III,  VIII |         pretend to signify the real essences of those substances whereof
133    III,  IX   |        substances referred, to real essences that cannot be known. The
134    III,  IX   |        those words are put for real essences that we have no ideas of
135    III,  IX   |           that are neither the real essences, nor exact representations
136    III,  X    |      substances whereof the nominal essences are only known to us when
137    III,  X    |           Putting them for the real essences of substances. It is true
138    III,  X    |         more certain, were the real essences of substances the ideas
139    III,  X    |           is for want of those real essences that our words convey so
140    III,  X    |            their names for the real essences of species, is the supposition
141    III,  X    |       representatives of those real essences; though indeed they signify
142    III,  X    |          not, or (which is all one) essences that we know not, it being
143    III,  X    |           there are certain precise essences according to which nature
144    III,  X    |             ideas of these proposed essences. For to what purpose else
145     IV,  III  |           that. Truths belonging to essences of things (that is, to abstract
146     IV,  III  |         contemplation only of those essences: as the existence of things
147     IV,  IV   |         things, which have no other essences but those ideas which are
148     IV,  IV   |          species so set out by real essences, that there can come no
149     IV,  IV   |        supposition of such specific essences made by nature, wherein
150     IV,  IV   |             certain number of these essences, wherein all things, as
151     IV,  IV   |        common notion of species and essences, if we will truly look into
152     IV,  IV   |              that species and their essences were anything else but our
153     IV,  VI   |          things constituted by real essences, different from the complex
154     IV,  VI   |            made use of the terms of essences, and species, on purpose
155     IV,  VI   |          yet those wrong notions of essences or species having got root
156     IV,  VI   |           to be constituted by real essences which we know not, are not
157     IV,  VI   |        specific ideas of their real essences in our own minds, more certainly
158     IV,  VI   |          are in it.~12. Our nominal essences of substances furnish few
159     IV,  VI   |       substances, and that the real essences, on which depend their properties
160     IV,  VI   |             the ideas of their real essences; which whilst we want, the
161     IV,  VI   |         whilst we want, the nominal essences we make use of instead of
162     IV,  VIII |            further than our nominal essences lead us. Which being to
163     IV,  IX   |            have only considered the essences of things; which being only
164     IV,  XII  |             real as well as nominal essences of their species, were pursued
165     IV,  XII  |    conversant about, being all real essences, and such as I imagine have
166     IV,  XII  |             real as well as nominal essences,) by contemplating our ideas,
167     IV,  XII  |         want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts
168     IV,  XII  |            internal fabric and real essences of bodies; but yet plainly
169     IV,  XII  |             discovery of their real essences, grasp at a time whole sheaves,