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1 Read | the abstractedness of the ideas themselves, might render 2 Read | reading, because innate ideas were denied in it; they 3 Read | concluding, that if innate ideas were not supposed, there 4 Read | original and nature of moral ideas, and enumerating the rules 5 Read | notions” (for of innate ideas he says nothing at all), 6 Read | this:—~Clear and distinct ideas are terms which, though 7 Read | certain simple or less complex ideas, joined in such a proportion 8 Read | answer all the variety of ideas that enter into men’s discourses 9 Read | pretends to clear or distinct ideas: it is plain his are not 10 Read | have thought determined ideas a way of speaking less liable 11 Read | have got such determined ideas of all that they reason, 12 Read | is the same) indetermined ideas, which they are made to 13 Read | men had such determined ideas in their inquiries and discourses, 14 Read | one of the Association of Ideas, the other of Enthusiasm. 15 Int | sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and 16 Int | understandings; and whether those ideas do in their formation, any 17 Int | into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else 18 Int | understanding hath by those ideas; and the certainty, evidence, 19 Int | me, that there are such ideas in men’s minds: every one 20 I | I~Neither Principles nor Ideas Are Innate~ 21 I, I | impertinent to suppose the ideas of colours innate in a creature 22 I, I | those general abstract ideas are not framed in the mind, 23 I, I | making of general abstract ideas, and the understanding of 24 I, I | commonly get not those general ideas, nor learn the names that 25 I, I | familiar and more particular ideas, they are, by their ordinary 26 I, I | first let in particular ideas, and furnish the yet empty 27 I, I | comes to be furnished with ideas and language, the materials 28 I, I | though the having of general ideas and the use of general words 29 I, I | find it still to be about ideas, not innate, but acquired; 30 I, I | impressions on their senses. In ideas thus got, the mind discovers 31 I, I | retain and perceive distinct ideas. But whether it be then 32 I, I | the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter (i.e. 33 I, I | having clear and distinct ideas of what their terms mean, 34 I, I | mind the clear and distinct ideas that these names stand for. 35 I, I | comes to have those general ideas about which those maxims 36 I, I | together in his mind the ideas they stand for; the later 37 I, I | maxims;—whose terms, with the ideas they stand for, being no 38 I, I | make him put together those ideas in his mind, and observe 39 I, I | reason, but because the ideas the words eighteen, nineteen, 40 I, I | least as we have distinct ideas of, every man in his wits, 41 I, I | propositions as men have distinct ideas, but as many as men can 42 I, I | propositions wherein different ideas are denied one of another. 43 I, I | can be innate unless the ideas about which it is be innate, 44 I, I | will be to suppose all our ideas of colours, sounds, tastes, 45 I, I | those general and abstract ideas being more strangers to 46 I, I | knowledge in the case: the ideas themselves, about which 47 I, I | their standing for such ideas, and the ideas themselves 48 I, I | for such ideas, and the ideas themselves that they stand 49 I, I | proposition whose terms or ideas were either of them innate. 50 I, I | innate. We by degrees get ideas and names, and learn their 51 I, I | disagreement we can perceive in our ideas when put together is expressed, 52 I, I | but which are concerning ideas not so soon or so easily 53 I, I | acquaintance he has got the ideas of those two different things 54 I, I | in his mind those general ideas they stand for. Till that 55 I, I | as ever he has got those ideas, and learned their names, 56 I, I | viz. because he finds the ideas he has in his mind to agree 57 I, I | in words which stand for ideas he has not yet in his mind, 58 I, I | than they are signs of our ideas, we cannot but assent to 59 I, I | they correspond to those ideas we have, but no further 60 I, I | more general and abstract ideas, and names standing for 61 I, II | duty, without supposing the ideas of God, of law, of obligation, 62 I, II | itself evident. But these ideas (which must be all of them 63 I, III | not innate, unless their ideas be innate. Had those who 64 I, III | were innate. Since, if the ideas which made up those truths 65 I, III | born with us. For, if the ideas be not innate, there was 66 I, III | original. For, where the ideas themselves are not, there 67 I, III | propositions about them.~2. Ideas, especially those belonging 68 I, III | think that they bring many ideas into the world with them. 69 I, III | bating perhaps some faint ideas of hunger, and thirst, and 70 I, III | appearance of any settled ideas at all in them; especially 71 I, III | all in them; especially of ideas answering the terms which 72 I, III | by degrees, afterwards, ideas come into their minds; and 73 I, III | and “identity” not innate ideas. “It is impossible for the 74 I, III | identity” are two innate ideas? Are they such as all mankind 75 I, III | itself and its assent by ideas that it never yet had? Or 76 I, III | and identity stand for two ideas, so far from being innate, 77 I, III | us. For if those innate ideas are not clear and distinct, 78 I, III | are there two different ideas of identity, both innate?~ 79 I, III | Whole and part, not innate ideas. Let us examine that principle 80 I, III | he considers [that] the ideas it comprehends in it, whole 81 I, III | relative; but the positive ideas to which they properly and 82 I, III | whole and part are innate ideas, extension and number must 83 I, III | naturally imprinted on them the ideas of extension and number, 84 I, III | thought innate, unless the ideas of God and worship are innate. 85 I, III | or number, do prove the ideas they stand for to be innate; 86 I, III | of those things, and the ideas of them, are so universally 87 I, III | above us, because we have no ideas of such distinct species, 88 I, III | avoid having some kind of ideas of those things whose names 89 I, III | of numbers, or fire.~10. Ideas of God and idea of fire. 90 I, III | impressions of knowledge or ideas stamped on the mind; since 91 I, III | others are wholly without ideas of God and principles of 92 I, III | have led him to it.~13. Ideas of God various in different 93 I, III | grant that if there were any ideas to be found imprinted on 94 I, III | sensible objects; to retain the ideas of them in their memories; 95 I, III | Contrary and inconsistent ideas of God under the same name. 96 I, III | Can it be thought that the ideas men have of God are the 97 I, III | contrary and inconsistent ideas and conceptions of him? 98 I, III | notion of him.~15. Gross ideas of God. What true or tolerable 99 I, III | part of mankind, had such ideas of God in their minds as 100 I, III | 17. Odd, low, and pitiful ideas of God common among men. 101 I, III | have the same and the true ideas of him. How many even amongst 102 I, III | minds unfurnished with these ideas of himself, than that he 103 I, III | took care to provide us any ideas, we might well expect they 104 I, III | those ways whereby other ideas are brought into our minds, 105 I, III | substratum, or support, of those ideas we do know.~20. No propositions 106 I, III | can be innate, since no ideas are innate. Whatever then 107 I, III | propositions are innate when the ideas about which they are can 108 I, III | not at all prove, that the ideas expressed in them are innate; 109 I, III | many cases, however the ideas came there, the assent to 110 I, III | or disagreement of such ideas, will necessarily follow. 111 I, III | to want one or both those ideas to-day. For, if we will 112 I, III | country people, to have ideas of God and worship, (which 113 I, III | be supposed to have those ideas, which therefore they must 114 I, III | hearing, no more proves the ideas to be innate, than it does 115 I, III | to-morrow) had the innate ideas of the sun, or light, or 116 I, III | hearing cannot prove the ideas innate, it can much less 117 I, III | propositions made up of those ideas. If they have any innate 118 I, III | If they have any innate ideas, I would be glad to be told 119 I, III | they are.~21. No innate ideas in the memory. To which 120 I, III | if there be any innate ideas, any ideas in the mind which 121 I, III | be any innate ideas, any ideas in the mind which the mind 122 I, III | loses all memory of the ideas of colours he once had. 123 I, III | say this man had then any ideas of colours in his mind, 124 I, III | them had in his mind any ideas of colours at all. His cataracts 125 I, III | couched, and then he has the ideas (which he remembers not) 126 I, III | In this case all these ideas of colours, which, when 127 I, III | therefore there be any innate ideas, they must be in the memory, 128 I, III | whether there be any innate ideas in the mind before impression 129 I, III | one will say, there are ideas in the mind that are not 130 I, III | thinks there are such innate ideas and propositions, which 131 I, III | if there be such innate ideas and impressions, plainly 132 I, III | faculties. To conclude: some ideas forwardly offer themselves 133 I, III | of truths result from any ideas, as soon as the mind puts 134 I, III | truths require a train of ideas placed in order, a due comparing 135 I, III | innate: but the truth is, ideas and notions are no more 136 II | BOOK II~Of Ideas~ 137 II, I | Chapter I~Of Ideas in general, and their Original ~ 138 II, I | whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past 139 II, I | have in their minds several ideas,—such as are those expressed 140 II, I | doctrine, that men have native ideas, and original characters, 141 II, I | understanding may get all the ideas it has; and by what ways 142 II, I | observation and experience.~2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection. 143 II, I | characters, without any ideas:—How comes it to be furnished? 144 II, I | knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally 145 II, I | sensation one source of ideas. First, our Senses, conversant 146 II, I | And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, 147 II, I | great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly 148 II, I | furnisheth the understanding with ideas is,—the perception of the 149 II, I | it is employed about the ideas it has got;—which operations, 150 II, I | understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had 151 II, I | understandings as distinct ideas as we do from bodies affecting 152 II, I | our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in 153 II, I | Call this REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only 154 II, I | whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the 155 II, I | originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings. The 156 II, I | actions of the mind about its ideas, but some sort of passions 157 II, I | any thought.~5. All our ideas are of the one or the other 158 II, I | least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive 159 II, I | furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which 160 II, I | furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations.~These, 161 II, I | contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have nothing 162 II, I | whether all the original ideas he has there, are any other 163 II, I | him stored with plenty of ideas, that are to be the matter 164 II, I | with them. And though the ideas of obvious and familiar 165 II, I | few, even of the ordinary ideas, till he were grown up to 166 II, I | affect them, variety of ideas, whether care be taken of 167 II, I | man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than 168 II, I | with fewer or more simple ideas from without, according 169 II, I | but have plain and clear ideas of them; yet, unless he 170 II, I | have clear and distinct ideas of all the operations of 171 II, I | have all the particular ideas of any landscape, or of 172 II, I | them each in particular.~8. Ideas of reflection later, because 173 II, I | before most children get ideas of the operations of their 174 II, I | any very clear or perfect ideas of the greatest part of 175 II, I | clear, distinct, lasting ideas, till the understanding 176 II, I | The soul begins to have ideas when it begins to perceive. 177 II, I | time a man has first any ideas, is to ask, when he begins 178 II, I | begins to perceive;—having ideas, and perception, being the 179 II, I | the actual perception of ideas in itself constantly, as 180 II, I | the beginning of a man’s ideas is the same as to inquire 181 II, I | this account, soul and its ideas, as body and its extension, 182 II, I | itself always to contemplate ideas; nor can conceive it any 183 II, I | move: the perception of ideas being (as I conceive) to 184 II, I | receives variety of images, or ideas, but retains none; they 185 II, I | never the better for such ideas, nor the soul for such thoughts. 186 II, I | further,—That whatever ideas the mind can receive and 187 II, I | hypothesis, the soul must have ideas not derived from sensation 188 II, I | also tell us, what those ideas are that are in the soul 189 II, I | made up of the waking man’s ideas; though for the most part 190 II, I | strange, if the soul has ideas of its own that it derived 191 II, I | never light on any of those ideas it borrowed not from sensation 192 II, I | native thoughts, and those ideas it had before it borrowed 193 II, I | waking man’s view any other ideas but what have a tang of 194 II, I | always thinks, and so had ideas before it was united, or 195 II, I | it recollects its native ideas; and during that retirement 196 II, I | it thinks by itself, the ideas it is busied about should 197 II, I | memory belongs only to such ideas as are derived from the 198 II, I | noise in the world.~20. No ideas but from sensation and reflection, 199 II, I | senses have furnished it with ideas to think on; and as those 200 II, I | afterwards, by compounding those ideas, and reflecting on its own 201 II, I | more to be furnished with ideas, it comes to be more and 202 II, I | retain and distinguish the ideas the senses convey to it. 203 II, I | compounding, and abstracting its ideas, and of reasoning about 204 II, I | 23. A man begins to have ideas when he first has sensation. 205 II, I | a man begins to have any ideas, I think the true answer 206 II, I | there appear not to be any ideas in the mind before the senses 207 II, I | any in, I conceive that ideas in the understanding are 208 II, I | own operations about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby 209 II, I | itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection. 210 II, I | set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection. These are 211 II, I | not one jot beyond those ideas which sense or reflection 212 II, I | the reception of simple ideas, the understanding is for 213 II, I | obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds whether we 214 II, I | he thinks. These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, 215 II, I | obliterate the images or ideas which the objects set before 216 II, I | the perception of those ideas that are annexed to them. ~ 217 II, II | Chapter II~Of Simple Ideas ~1. Uncompounded appearances. 218 II, II | observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that 219 II, II | them; yet it is plain, the ideas they produce in the mind 220 II, II | the same time, different ideas;—as a man sees at once motion 221 II, II | piece of wax: yet the simple ideas thus united in the same 222 II, II | of ice being as distinct ideas in the mind as the smell 223 II, II | perception he has of those simple ideas; which, being each in itself 224 II, II | distinguishable into different ideas.~2. The mind can neither 225 II, II | destroy them. These simple ideas, the materials of all our 226 II, II | stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, 227 II, II | at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power 228 II, II | conclude that a blind man hath ideas of colours, and a deaf man 229 II, III | Chapter III~Of Simple Ideas of Sense ~1. Division of 230 II, III | Sense ~1. Division of simple ideas. The better to conceive 231 II, III | The better to conceive the ideas we receive from sensation, 232 II, III | under these several heads.~Ideas of one sense. There are 233 II, III | one sense. There are some ideas which have admittance only 234 II, III | obvious enough.~2. Few simple ideas have names. I think it will 235 II, III | all the particular simple ideas belonging to each sense. 236 II, III | serve our turn for these ideas, which in effect is little 237 II, III | certainly very distinct ideas. Nor are the different tastes, 238 II, III | by our palates we receive ideas of, much better provided 239 II, III | in the account of simple ideas I am here giving, content 240 II, III | ingredients of our complex ideas; amongst which, I think, 241 II, IV | but not on the distinct ideas of space and solidity, which 242 II, IV | protrusion. And that men have ideas of space without a body, 243 II, IV | have clear and distinct ideas; and that they can think 244 II, IV | that have not these two ideas distinct, but confound them, 245 II, IV | different names, or different ideas under the same name, can 246 II, IV | blind or deaf, has distinct ideas of the colour of scarlet 247 II, IV | much easier. The simple ideas we have, are such as experience 248 II, IV | to discourse into him the ideas of light and colours. The 249 II, V | Chapter V~Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses ~Ideas 250 II, V | Ideas of Divers Senses ~Ideas received both by seeing 251 II, V | seeing and touching. The ideas we get by more than one 252 II, V | convey into our minds the ideas of the extension, figure, 253 II, VI | Chapter VI~Of Simple Ideas of Reflection~ 1. Simple 254 II, VI | of Reflection~ 1. Simple ideas are the operations of mind 255 II, VI | of mind about its other ideas. The mind receiving the 256 II, VI | The mind receiving the ideas mentioned in the foregoing 257 II, VI | own actions about those ideas it has, takes from thence 258 II, VI | takes from thence other ideas, which are as capable to 259 II, VI | the modes of these simple ideas of reflection, such as are 260 II, VII | Chapter VII~Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection ~ 261 II, VII | Sensation and Reflection ~1. Ideas of pleasure and pain. There 262 II, VII | pain. There be other simple ideas which convey themselves 263 II, VII | with almost all our other ideas. Delight or uneasiness, 264 II, VII | themselves to almost all our ideas both of sensation and reflection: 265 II, VII | thing, and belong to the ideas of pleasure and pain, delight 266 II, VII | use for those two sorts of ideas.~3. As motives of our actions. 267 II, VII | to choose, amongst its ideas, which it will think on, 268 II, VII | or design, and suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded 269 II, VII | several objects, and the ideas which we receive from them, 270 II, VII | by the same objects and ideas that produce pleasure in 271 II, VII | annexed pain to those very ideas which delight us. Thus heat, 272 II, VII | pleasure and pain to our other ideas. Though what I have here 273 II, VII | may not, perhaps, make the ideas of pleasure and pain clearer 274 II, VII | annexed to so many other ideas, serving to give us due 275 II, VII | of all understandings.~7. Ideas of existence and unity. 276 II, VII | and Unity are two other ideas that are suggested to the 277 II, VII | every idea within. When ideas are in our minds, we consider 278 II, VII | another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation 279 II, VII | there, we shall find our ideas always, whilst we are awake, 280 II, VII | intermission.~10. Simple ideas the materials of all our 281 II, VII | considerable of those simple ideas which the mind has, and 282 II, VII | to think these few simple ideas sufficient to employ the 283 II, VII | one of the above-mentioned ideas, viz. number, whose stock 284 II, VIII | considerations concerning our Simple Ideas of Sensation ~1. Positive 285 II, VIII | of Sensation ~1. Positive ideas from privative causes. Concerning 286 II, VIII | causes. Concerning the simple ideas of Sensation, it is to be 287 II, VIII | privation of the subject.~2. Ideas in the mind distinguished 288 II, VIII | gives rise to them. Thus the ideas of heat and cold, light 289 II, VIII | equally clear and positive ideas in the mind; though, perhaps, 290 II, VIII | our senses derive those ideas. These the understanding, 291 II, VIII | all as distinct positive ideas, without taking notice of 292 II, VIII | black.~3. We may have the ideas when we are ignorant of 293 II, VIII | into their causes hath the ideas of white and black, and 294 II, VIII | not directly for positive ideas, but for their absence, 295 II, VIII | which words denote positive ideas, v.g. taste, sound, being, 296 II, VIII | absence.~6. Whether any ideas are due to causes really 297 II, VIII | here assigned of positive ideas are according to the common 298 II, VIII | whether there be really any ideas from a privative cause, 299 II, VIII | privation than motion.~7. Ideas in the mind, qualities in 300 II, VIII | discover the nature of our ideas the better, and to discourse 301 II, VIII | distinguish them as they are ideas or perceptions in our minds; 302 II, VIII | are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing 303 II, VIII | to excite in us.~8. Our ideas and the qualities of bodies. 304 II, VIII | power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round,— 305 II, VIII | the power to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the 306 II, VIII | understandings, I call them ideas; which ideas, if I speak 307 II, VIII | I call them ideas; which ideas, if I speak of sometimes 308 II, VIII | observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz. solidity, extension, 309 II, VIII | 11. How bodies produce ideas in us. The next thing to 310 II, VIII | considered is, how bodies produce ideas in us; and that is manifestly 311 II, VIII | minds when they produce ideas therein; and yet we perceive 312 II, VIII | our minds the particular ideas we have of them. And since 313 II, VIII | motion; which produces these ideas which we have of them in 314 II, VIII | qualities produce their ideas. After the same manner, 315 II, VIII | the same manner, that the ideas of these original qualities 316 II, VIII | we may conceive that the ideas of secondary qualities are 317 II, VIII | their motions, causes the ideas of the blue colour, and 318 II, VIII | that God should annex such ideas to such motions, with which 319 II, VIII | parts as I have said.~15. Ideas of primary qualities are 320 II, VIII | this observation,—that the ideas of primary qualities of 321 II, VIII | bodies themselves, but the ideas produced in us by these 322 II, VIII | There is nothing like our ideas, existing in the bodies 323 II, VIII | white and sweet, from the ideas they produce in us. Which 324 II, VIII | those bodies that those ideas are in us, the one the perfect 325 II, VIII | its solid parts?~17. The ideas of the primary alone really 326 II, VIII | they are such particular ideas, vanish and cease, and are 327 II, VIII | gripings in us. That these ideas of sickness and pain are 328 II, VIII | mind particular distinct ideas, which in itself it has 329 II, VIII | thereby produce distinct ideas, which in itself it has 330 II, VIII | itself it has not. These ideas, being all effects of the 331 II, VIII | why the pain and sickness, ideas that are the effect of manna, 332 II, VIII | longer produces any such ideas in us: upon the return of 333 II, VIII | of light; and that those ideas of whiteness and redness 334 II, VIII | may be warm to the other. Ideas being thus distinguished 335 II, VIII | the same water, if those ideas were really in it, should 336 II, VIII | qualities in bodies, and the ideas produced by them in the 337 II, VIII | may also come to know what ideas are, and what are not, resemblances 338 II, VIII | produce in us the different ideas of several colours, sounds, 339 II, VIII | powers to produce several ideas in us, by our senses, are 340 II, VIII | produce in me the distinct ideas of white and fluid.~25. 341 II, VIII | seems to be, because the ideas we have of distinct colours, 342 II, VIII | forward to imagine, that those ideas are the resemblances of 343 II, VIII | produce in the mind the ideas of blue or yellow, &c. But, 344 II, VIII | apt to imagine that our ideas are resemblances of something 345 II, VIII | which primary qualities the ideas produced in us have no resemblance.~ 346 II, VIII | produce several different ideas in us; or else, by operating 347 II, VIII | them capable of producing ideas in us different from what 348 II, IX | mind exercised about our ideas; so it is the first and 349 II, IX | operation in the mind about its ideas, wherein the mind is active; 350 II, IX | curiously surveying some ideas that are there, it takes 351 II, IX | Children, though they may have ideas in the womb, have none innate. 352 II, IX | the womb, receive some few ideas before they are born, as 353 II, IX | examination) I think the ideas of hunger and warmth are 354 II, IX | that children receive some ideas before they come into the 355 II, IX | world, yet these simple ideas are far from those innate 356 II, IX | of production from other ideas derived from sense, but 357 II, IX | and constitution.~7. Which ideas appear first, is not evident, 358 II, IX | important. As there are some ideas which we may reasonably 359 II, IX | after they are born, those ideas are the earliest imprinted 360 II, IX | furnished with all such ideas as have no pain accompanying 361 II, IX | how you please. But the ideas that are most familiar at 362 II, IX | order wherein the several ideas come at first into the mind 363 II, IX | concerning perception, that the ideas we receive by sensation 364 II, IX | think, usual in any of our ideas, but those received by sight. 365 II, IX | conveying to our minds the ideas of light and colours, which 366 II, IX | and also the far different ideas of space, figure, and motion, 367 II, IX | characters or sounds, but of the ideas that are excited in him 368 II, IX | them.~10. How, by habit, ideas of sensation are unconsciously 369 II, IX | unconsciously changed into ideas of judgment. Nor need we 370 II, IX | having or receiving any ideas.~12. Perception in all animals. 371 II, IX | and clearly wiped out the ideas his mind was formerly stored 372 II, X | keeping of those simple ideas which from sensation or 373 II, X | again in our minds those ideas which, after imprinting, 374 II, X | were the storehouse of our ideas. For, the narrow mind of 375 II, X | being capable of having many ideas under view and consideration 376 II, X | repository, to lay up those ideas which, at another time, 377 II, X | might have use of. But, our ideas being nothing but actual 378 II, X | them; this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the 379 II, X | this sense it is that our ideas are said to be in our memories, 380 II, X | are said to have all those ideas in our understandings which, 381 II, X | pleasure and pain, fix ideas. Attention and repetition 382 II, X | help much to the fixing any ideas in the memory. But those 383 II, X | the reception of several ideas; which, supplying the place 384 II, X | caution for the future.~4. Ideas fade in the memory. Concerning 385 II, X | degrees of lasting, wherewith ideas are imprinted on the memory, 386 II, X | weak. In all these cases, ideas in the mind quickly fade, 387 II, X | oblivion. Thus many of those ideas which were produced in the 388 II, X | very young; in whom the ideas of colours having been but 389 II, X | constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are 390 II, X | nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of 391 II, X | strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever 392 II, X | 6. Constantly repeated ideas can scarce be lost. But 393 II, X | lost. But concerning the ideas themselves, it is easy to 394 II, X | these, I say, and the like ideas, are seldom quite lost, 395 II, X | whilst the mind retains any ideas at all.~7. In remembering, 396 II, X | it, or viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory, 397 II, X | our affections bringing ideas to our memory, which had 398 II, X | be observed, concerning ideas lodged in the memory, and 399 II, X | acquaintance with them, as with ideas it had known before. So 400 II, X | known before. So that though ideas formerly imprinted are not 401 II, X | slowly, and retrieves not the ideas that it has, and are laid 402 II, X | his memory, has not the ideas that are really preserved 403 II, X | seeking in his mind for those ideas that should serve his turn, 404 II, X | to the mind those dormant ideas which it has present occasion 405 II, X | having great variety of ideas only by succession, not 406 II, X | laying up and retaining the ideas that are brought into the 407 II, X | have perception, and retain ideas in their memories, and use 408 II, X | do) of which they had no ideas. For, though I should grant 409 II, XI | distinguishing between the several ideas it has. It is not enough 410 II, XI | whereby it perceives two ideas to be the same, or different. 411 II, XI | accurately discriminating ideas one from another lies, either 412 II, XI | misled. If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand 413 II, XI | most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together 414 II, XI | carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the 415 II, XI | well distinguishing our ideas, it chiefly contributes 416 II, XI | confusion between the two ideas of sweet and bitter, that 417 II, XI | makes a confusion in two ideas of white and sweet, or white 418 II, XI | at the same time. And the ideas of orange-colour and azure, 419 II, XI | nephriticum, are no less distinct ideas than those of the same colours 420 II, XI | operation of the mind about its ideas, and is that upon which 421 II, XI | all that large tribe of ideas comprehended under relation; 422 II, XI | they probably have several ideas distinct enough, yet it 423 II, XI | sufficiently distinguished any ideas, so as to perceive them 424 II, XI | beasts compare not their ideas further than some sensible 425 II, XI | men, belonging to general ideas, and useful only to abstract 426 II, XI | observe in the mind about its ideas is COMPOSITION; whereby 427 II, XI | nevertheless a putting several ideas together, though of the 428 II, XI | putting together the repeated ideas of several perches, we frame 429 II, XI | several combinations of simple ideas, as possibly the shape, 430 II, XI | compound them and make complex ideas. And perhaps even where 431 II, XI | think they have complex ideas, it is only one simple one 432 II, XI | repeated sensations, got ideas fixed in their memories, 433 II, XI | words, to signify their ideas to others. These verbal 434 II, XI | outward marks of our internal ideas, and those ideas being taken 435 II, XI | internal ideas, and those ideas being taken from particular 436 II, XI | mind makes the particular ideas received from particular 437 II, XI | or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, 438 II, XI | called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas taken from particular beings 439 II, XI | conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise, naked appearances 440 II, XI | thus universals, whether ideas or terms, are made.~10. 441 II, XI | compound and enlarge their ideas that way to any degree; 442 II, XI | that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect 443 II, XI | general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason 444 II, XI | abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use 445 II, XI | express their universal ideas by signs, which serve them 446 II, XI | distance. For if they have any ideas at all, and are not bare 447 II, XI | it is only in particular ideas, just as they received them 448 II, XI | but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds 449 II, XI | having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake 450 II, XI | of thoughts, incoherent ideas have been cemented together 451 II, XI | the disorderly jumbling ideas together is in some more, 452 II, XI | madmen: that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong 453 II, XI | exercised about all its ideas in general, yet the instances 454 II, XI | have been chiefly in simple ideas. And I have subjoined the 455 II, XI | the mind to that of simple ideas, before I come to what I 456 II, XI | principally about simple ideas, we might, by following 457 II, XI | they operate about simple ideas,—which are usually, in most 458 II, XI | operations of the mind about ideas received from sensations, 459 II, XI | reflected on, another set of ideas, derived from that other 460 II, XI | this place after the simple ideas of sensation. Of compounding, 461 II, XI | in and storing up those ideas, out of which is to be framed 462 II, XI | can discover, whereby the ideas of things are brought into 463 II, XI | other men have either innate ideas or infused principles, they 464 II, XI | visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would 465 II, XI | objects of sight, and the ideas of them.~These are my guesses 466 II, XI | to have and retain simple ideas, and the modes of them, 467 II, XI | examine some of these simple ideas and their modes a little 468 II, XII | Chapter XII~Of Complex Ideas ~1. Made by the mind out 469 II, XII | hitherto considered those ideas, in the reception whereof 470 II, XII | reception of all its simple ideas, so it exerts several acts 471 II, XII | whereby out of its simple ideas, as the materials and foundations 472 II, XII | its power over its simple ideas, are chiefly these three: ( 473 II, XII | Combining several simple ideas into one compound one; and 474 II, XII | one; and thus all complex ideas are made. (2) The second 475 II, XII | The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, 476 II, XII | which way it gets all its ideas of relations. (3) The third 477 II, XII | separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their 478 II, XII | and thus all its general ideas are made. This shows man’ 479 II, XII | consideration of complex ideas, and come to the other two 480 II, XII | their due places. As simple ideas are observed to exist in 481 II, XII | has joined them together. Ideas thus made up of several 482 II, XII | complicated of various simple ideas, or complex ideas made up 483 II, XII | simple ideas, or complex ideas made up of simple ones, 484 II, XII | and joining together its ideas, the mind has great power 485 II, XII | confined to those simple ideas which it received from those 486 II, XII | compositions. For simple ideas are all from things themselves, 487 II, XII | it. It can have no other ideas of sensible qualities than 488 II, XII | without by the senses; nor any ideas of other kind of operations 489 II, XII | has once got these simple ideas, it is not confined barely 490 II, XII | power, put together those ideas it has, and make new complex 491 II, XII | received so united.~3. Complex ideas are either of modes, substances, 492 II, XII | substances, or relations. COMPLEX IDEAS, however compounded and 493 II, XII | SUBSTANCES. 3. RELATIONS.~4. Ideas of modes. First, Modes I 494 II, XII | Modes I call such complex ideas which, however compounded, 495 II, XII | substances;—such as are the ideas signified by the words triangle, 496 II, XII | and mixed modes of simple ideas. Of these modes, there are 497 II, XII | which are nothing but the ideas of so many distinct units 498 II, XII | others compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, put together 499 II, XII | a combination of several ideas of several kinds: and these 500 II, XII | these I call mixed modes.~6. Ideas of substances, single or