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1 Read | that when any one uses any term, he may have in his mind 2 Int | treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best 3 I, III | innate. That the idea the term worship stands for is not 4 II, I | take their beginnings. The term operations here I use in 5 II, IV | Only I have thought the term solidity the more proper 6 II, XIII | be called capacity. (The term extension is usually applied 7 II, XIII | promiscuous use of so doubtful a term; which is so far from being 8 II, XIII | particular bodies; and the term expansion to space in general, 9 II, XV | carry them further, yet they term what is beyond the limits 10 II, XV | measured by, they never term imaginary: because it is 11 II, XX | but a bare velleity, the term used to signify the lowest 12 II, XXV | words have not a correlative term, there people are not so 13 II, XXV | precise idea the relative term stands for, to have a clear 14 II, XXVI | that sort of beings. This term belonging properly to those 15 II, XXVI | there is but a relative term, signifying the disproportion 16 II, XXVII | sorts of substances, as we term them, do not exclude one 17 II, XXVII | 26. “Person” a forensic term. Person, as I take it, is 18 II, XXVII | person. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and 19 II, XXVIII| considerations under one term, those who yield too easily 20 II, XXIX | idea they make this or that term stand for, almost as often 21 III, III | given a name they make a term of a more comprehensive 22 III, III | one has a more general term, that comprehends with man 23 III, III | under the more comprehensive term, vivens. And, not to dwell 24 III, III | That every more general term stands for such an idea, 25 III, III | understand by words what idea the term defined stands for, a definition 26 III, III | the signification of the term defined: and if, instead 27 III, III | to use the next general term, it has not been out of 28 III, III | not but the meaning of the term man would be as well understood, 29 III, III | have, in explaining the term man, followed here the ordinary 30 III, III | rules of logic, that every term can have its signification 31 III, IV | them, the meaning of any term is then showed, or the word 32 III, IV | up of them. But when any term stands for a simple idea 33 III, IV | meaning to him. When any term stands for an idea a man 34 III, IV | but is ignorant that that term is the sign of it, then 35 III, IV | frame yet a more general term to comprehend both colours 36 III, IV | sense. And so the general term quality, in its ordinary 37 III, V | communicate by one general term; under which divers particulars, 38 III, V | coherence; and so under one term bundle together a great 39 III, VI | abstract idea which any general term stands for, cannot be ranked 40 III, VI | observe, that the more general term is always the name of a 41 III, VI | the signification of the term gold. Or else it means, 42 III, IX | the signification of that term; and that they differed 43 III, X | matter, or any the like term, we truly argue only about 44 III, X | have in discourse used any term, they have thereby, as it 45 III, X | instance of this. Life is a term, none more familiar. Any 46 III, XI | complex ideas); or where the term, being very material in 47 III, XI | the signification of any term; yet the import of the discourse 48 III, XI | sense he there uses that term. ~ 49 IV, III | simple ideas, which every term shall stand for: and then 50 IV, VI | abstract idea which the general term stands for being the sole 51 IV, VI | comprehended under each term; which, it is evident, are 52 IV, VI | application of any general term no further than to the particular 53 IV, VI | Schools, any one supposes the term gold to stand for a species 54 IV, VIII | when we affirm the said term of itself, whether it be 55 IV, VIII | told, viz. that the same term is the same term, and the 56 IV, VIII | the same term is the same term, and the same idea the same 57 IV, VIII | such as affirm the same term of itself; which is no way 58 IV, VIII | only such wherein the same term, importing the same idea, 59 IV, VIII | identical, wherein the same term is not affirmed of itself, 60 IV, VIII | propositions wherein the same term is affirmed of itself. And 61 IV, VIII | complex one signified by the term metal, being nothing but 62 IV, VIII | of the definition of the term defined. Alike trifling 63 IV, VIII | of the definition of the term defined, or to affirm any 64 IV, VIII | the same purpose, when any term standing for any one or 65 IV, VIII | man, is affirmed of the term man:—v.g. suppose a Roman 66 IV, VIII | is affirmed of any other term, it can signify no more 67 IV, VIII | definition predicated of any term. Secondly, All propositions 68 IV, VIII | the complex idea which any term stands for is predicated 69 IV, VIII | for is predicated of that term, are only verbal: v.g. to