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501 II, XII | collective. Secondly, the ideas of Substances are such combinations 502 II, XII | such combinations of simple ideas as are taken to represent 503 II, XII | and a combination of the ideas of a certain sort of figure, 504 II, XII | there are two sorts of ideas:—one of single substances, 505 II, XII | of sheep—which collective ideas of several substances thus 506 II, XII | of a man or an unit.~7. Ideas of relation. Thirdly, the 507 II, XII | the last sort of complex ideas is that we call Relation, 508 II, XII | order.~8. The abstrusest ideas we can have are all from 509 II, XII | together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation 510 II, XII | that even the most abstruse ideas, how remote soever they 511 II, XII | repeating and joining together ideas that it had either from 512 II, XII | even large and abstract ideas are derived from sensation 513 II, XII | faculties, employed about ideas received from objects of 514 II, XII | endeavour to show in the ideas we have of space, time, 515 II, XIII | Chapter XIII~Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:— and First, 516 II, XIII | Simple modes of simple ideas. Though in the foregoing 517 II, XIII | have often mentioned simple ideas, which are truly the materials 518 II, XIII | perfectly different and distinct ideas in the mind as those of 519 II, XIII | settle in their minds the ideas of certain stated lengths,— 520 II, XIII | which are so many distinct ideas made up only of space. When 521 II, XIII | frame to themselves the ideas of long, square, or cubic 522 II, XIII | to another, enlarge their ideas of space as much as they 523 II, XIII | compositions, by repeating its own ideas, and joining them as it 524 II, XIII | receive into our minds the ideas of extension or distance.~ 525 II, XIII | confound very different ideas one with another; for I 526 II, XIII | but that they are distinct ideas. Many ideas require others, 527 II, XIII | are distinct ideas. Many ideas require others, as necessary 528 II, XIII | which yet are very distinct ideas. Motion can neither be, 529 II, XIII | and they are very distinct ideas; and so, I think, are those 530 II, XIII | solidity being as distinct ideas as thinking and extension, 531 II, XIII | evident, are two distinct ideas. For,~12. Extension not 532 II, XIII | and stand for determined ideas. And I desire those who 533 II, XIII | for three several distinct ideas, they would do well to make 534 II, XIII | make known those distinct ideas, or at least to give three 535 II, XIII | thus make three distinct ideas of substance, what hinders 536 II, XIII | notable way of having clear ideas of letters and paper. But 537 II, XIII | our own clear and distinct ideas plainly satisfying us, that 538 II, XIII | confess they have distinct ideas of vacuum and plenum, i.e. 539 II, XIII | without matter.~24. The ideas of space and body distinct. 540 II, XIII | so constantly with other ideas, has been the occasion, 541 II, XIII | they reflected on their ideas of tastes and smells as 542 II, XIII | had they examined their ideas of hunger and thirst, and 543 II, XIII | Essences of things. If those ideas which are constantly joined 544 II, XIII | which have constantly those ideas joined to them, and are 545 II, XIII | shown sufficiently.~27. Ideas of space and solidity distinct. 546 II, XIII | not any two more distinct ideas; and we can as easily conceive 547 II, XIII | whereof, having settled ideas in our minds, we can revive, 548 II, XIII | little in clear, simple ideas. The knowing precisely what 549 II, XIII | them, find their simple ideas all generally to agree, 550 II, XIII | and do well examine the ideas of their own minds, cannot 551 II, XIII | and carefully their own ideas, and strip them not from 552 II, XIII | should really have different ideas, I do not see how they could 553 II, XIII | presently of that sort of ideas I speak of. It is not easy 554 II, XIII | assiduity to examine its ideas, till it resolves them into 555 II, XIV | whereof we have distinct ideas, as hours, days, years, & 556 II, XIV | reflection on the train of our ideas. The answer of a great man, 557 II, XIV | to furnish us with these ideas, as clear and distinct as 558 II, XIV | original with the rest of our ideas.~3. Nature and origin of 559 II, XIV | that there is a train of ideas which constantly succeed 560 II, XIV | these appearances of several ideas one after another in our 561 II, XIV | the appearance of any two ideas in our minds, is that we 562 II, XIV | receive successively several ideas in our minds, we know that 563 II, XIV | to the succession of any ideas in our minds, the duration 564 II, XIV | reflection on the train of our ideas. That we have our notion 565 II, XIV | reflection on the train of ideas, which we find to appear 566 II, XIV | considering the train of ideas that take their turns in 567 II, XIV | When that succession of ideas ceases, our perception of 568 II, XIV | notice of the succession of ideas that pass in his mind, whilst 569 II, XIV | we have no succession of ideas in our minds. For if a man, 570 II, XIV | dreams, and variety of ideas make themselves perceptible 571 II, XIV | clear, that men derive their ideas of duration from their reflections 572 II, XIV | reflections on the train of the ideas they observe to succeed 573 II, XIV | the appearing of various ideas one after another in our 574 II, XIV | train of distinguishable ideas. For a man looking upon 575 II, XIV | constant train of successive ideas: v.g. a man becalmed at 576 II, XIV | will perceive the various ideas of his own thoughts in his 577 II, XIV | slow, that it causes no new ideas in us, but a good while 578 II, XIV | a constant train of new ideas to follow one another immediately 579 II, XIV | constant succession of varying ideas arising from it.~8. Very 580 II, XIV | so cause not any train of ideas in the mind, are not also 581 II, XIV | in less times than our ideas are wont to succeed one 582 II, XIV | motion.~9. The train of ideas has a certain degree of 583 II, XIV | be not probable that our ideas do, whilst we are awake, 584 II, XIV | the succession of those ideas one to another in our minds, 585 II, XIV | constant train of fresh ideas to the senses, as fast as 586 II, XIV | ones into it; and so other ideas of our own thoughts, having 587 II, XIV | other bodies as fast as the ideas of our own minds do naturally 588 II, XIV | and regular succession of ideas in a waking man, is, as 589 II, XIV | exceeds the pace of our ideas, as where two sounds or 590 II, XIV | keeps not pace with the ideas in our minds, or the quickness 591 II, XIV | as when any one or more ideas in their ordinary course 592 II, XIV | idea. If it be so, that the ideas of our minds, whilst we 593 II, XIV | which (not knowing how the ideas of our minds are framed, 594 II, XIV | difficult to keep all other ideas out of his mind; but that 595 II, XIV | over the succession of our ideas. All that is in a man’s 596 II, XIV | mind and observe what the ideas are that take their turns 597 II, XIV | observe and consider them.~16. Ideas, however made, include no 598 II, XIV | motion. Whether these several ideas in a man’s mind be made 599 II, XIV | the notice we take of the ideas of our own minds, appearing 600 II, XIV | which we should have no such ideas at all. It is not then motion, 601 II, XIV | but the constant train of ideas in our minds whilst we are 602 II, XIV | a constant succession of ideas, as I have before showed: 603 II, XIV | duration, by the train of other ideas succeeding one another in 604 II, XIV | motion, as by the train of ideas caused by the uninterrupted 605 II, XIV | having been accustomed to the ideas of minutes, hours, days, 606 II, XIV | appearance, or alteration of ideas, in seemingly equidistant 607 II, XIV | of them by the train of ideas which had passed in men’ 608 II, XIV | intervals; by which train of ideas discovering inequality in 609 II, XIV | as the train of our own ideas have lodged in our memories, 610 II, XIV | return of certain sensible ideas, in seeming equidistant 611 II, XIV | periods, have fixed the ideas of such lengths of duration 612 II, XIV | on the train of our own ideas, caused in us either by 613 II, XIV | natural appearances of those ideas coming constantly of themselves 614 II, XIV | revolutions of the sun got the ideas of certain lengths of duration,— 615 II, XIV | duration dependent on our ideas. The notion of an hour, 616 II, XIV | once exist, but only in the ideas I have of them in my memory 617 II, XIV | without end.~31. Origin of our ideas of duration, and of the 618 II, XIV | and sensation, we got the ideas of duration, and the measures 619 II, XIV | passes in our minds, how our ideas there in train constantly 620 II, XIV | equidistant periods, we get the ideas of certain lengths or measures 621 II, XIV | those measures of time, or ideas of stated length of duration, 622 II, XIV | by being able to repeat ideas of any length of time, as 623 II, XV | Chapter XV~Ideas of Duration and Expansion, 624 II, XV | duration, yet, they being ideas of general concernment, 625 II, XV | no further. Or if their ideas, upon consideration, carry 626 II, XV | towards the original of men’s ideas, (as I am apt to think they 627 II, XV | rightly considered, are only ideas of determinate distances 628 II, XV | measure by preconceived ideas of certain lengths of space 629 II, XV | reckoned amongst our simple ideas, yet none of the distinct 630 II, XV | yet none of the distinct ideas we have of either is without 631 II, XV | having a place amongst simple ideas. Could the mind, as in number, 632 II, XV | would make its more enlarged ideas of extension and duration. 633 II, XV | makes use, I say, of such ideas as these, as simple ones: 634 II, XV | component parts of larger ideas, which the mind upon occasion 635 II, XV | have clear and distinct ideas, may perhaps be fittest 636 II, XV | considered by us, as the simple ideas of that kind out of which 637 II, XV | rather the succession of ideas in our minds, from whence 638 II, XV | difference between them,—That the ideas of length which we have 639 II, XV | combination of two distinct ideas is, I suppose, scarce to 640 II, XVI | universal idea. Amongst all the ideas we have, as there is none 641 II, XVI | we come by the complex ideas of the modes of it. Thus, 642 II, XVI | betwixt two approaching ideas, which yet are really different. 643 II, XVI | it: or can form distinct ideas of every the least excess 644 II, XVI | application. Because the ideas of numbers are more precise 645 II, XVI | to it, may count, or have ideas, for several collections 646 II, XVI | them, is capable of all the ideas of numbers within the compass 647 II, XVI | than in any other sort of ideas. For, without such names 648 II, XVI | reckoning, or having useful ideas of numbers, let us see all 649 II, XVI | counted distinctly, and ideas of them both got more easily 650 II, XVI | faculty to collect scattered ideas into complex ones, and range 651 II, XVI | with good store of other ideas: and one may often observe 652 II, XVI | distinguish carefully two ideas, which are different one 653 II, XVI | idea of multitude, but the ideas necessary to distinct numeration 654 II, XVI | number. For what else are our ideas of Eternity and Immensity, 655 II, XVI | repeated additions of certain ideas of imagined parts of duration 656 II, XVI | number (of all other our ideas) most clearly furnishes 657 II, XVII | least part: and such are the ideas of space, duration, and 658 II, XVII | conceiving them, and these our ideas of their infinity.~2. The 659 II, XVII | come by those boundless ideas of eternity and immensity; 660 II, XVII | actually existing; since our ideas are not always proofs of 661 II, XVII | an end of such repeated ideas than we can come to the 662 II, XVII | of infinity.~6. Why other ideas are not capable of infinity. 663 II, XVII | repeating, without end, our own ideas, it may be demanded,—Why 664 II, XVII | attribute infinity to other ideas, as well as those of space 665 II, XVII | which I answer,—All the ideas that are considered as having 666 II, XVII | be no end. But in other ideas it is not so. For to the 667 II, XVII | therefore the different ideas of whiteness, &c. are called 668 II, XVII | called degrees. For those ideas that consist of parts are 669 II, XVII | that we diminish it. Those ideas that consist not of parts 670 II, XVII | progression: and so those ideas alone lead our minds towards 671 II, XVII | mind, over what repeated ideas of space it pleases; but 672 II, XVII | view of all those repeated ideas of space which an endless 673 II, XVII | number. Whatsoever positive ideas we have in our minds of 674 II, XVII | infinity. But of all other ideas, it is number, as I have 675 II, XVII | it there makes use of the ideas and repetitions of numbers, 676 II, XVII | which are so many distinct ideas,—kept best by number from 677 II, XVII | in our minds the distinct ideas, if we consider that number 678 II, XVII | repeat in our minds the ideas of years, or ages, or any 679 II, XVII | bounds to those repeated ideas than we have to set bounds 680 II, XVII | imagine they have positive ideas of infinite duration and 681 II, XVII | measures, whereof we have the ideas in our minds, and whereby 682 II, XVII | whereof we have the positive ideas) can never otherwise produce 683 II, XVII | great number of positive ideas of space or duration. But 684 II, XVII | still greater to all the ideas you have, or can be supposed 685 II, XVII | positive idea. All our positive ideas of any quantity, whether 686 II, XVII | is possible to make the ideas of yesterday, to-day, and 687 II, XVII | that they have clearer ideas of infinite duration than 688 II, XVII | For whatsoever positive ideas a man has in his mind of 689 II, XVII | he can add together the ideas of two days, or two paces, 690 II, XVII | paces, which are positive ideas of lengths he has in his 691 II, XVII | confuted.~21. Supposed positive ideas of infinity, cause of mistakes. 692 II, XVII | clear positive comprehensive ideas of infinity, it is fit they 693 II, XVII | marks of a defect in our ideas of infinity, and the disproportion 694 II, XVII | as complete and positive ideas of them as they have of 695 II, XVII | All these are modes of ideas got from sensation and reflection. 696 II, XVII | there being few simple ideas whose modes give more exercise 697 II, XVII | nevertheless, as all our other ideas, its original there. Some 698 II, XVII | introduce into their minds ideas of infinity. But this hinders 699 II, XVII | other men, got the first ideas which they had of infinity 700 II, XVIII | Other simple modes of simple ideas of sensation. Though I have, 701 II, XVIII | shown how, from simple ideas taken in by sensation, the 702 II, XVIII | what is made out of simple ideas: received into the mind 703 II, XVIII | mind has to repeat its own ideas;—Though, I say, these might 704 II, XVIII | simple modes of the simple ideas of sensation, and suffice 705 II, XVIII | proceed to more complex ideas.~2. Simple modes of motion. 706 II, XVIII | presently in his mind distinct ideas, which are all but the different 707 II, XVIII | and slow are two different ideas of motion, the measures 708 II, XVIII | together; so they are complex ideas, comprehending time and 709 II, XVIII | furnished with distinct ideas, to almost an infinite number. 710 II, XVIII | all, by reflecting on the ideas of those sounds, so put 711 II, XVIII | modes, as being made up of ideas of divers kinds, viz. figure 712 II, XVIII | modes, made up of the simple ideas of those senses. But they, 713 II, XVIII | many of them very distinct ideas, yet have ordinarily no 714 II, XVIII | taken notice of, as distinct ideas, where the difference is 715 II, XVIII | show, that all our simple ideas come to our minds only by 716 II, XVIII | and so make new complex ideas. But, though white, red, 717 II, XVIII | modified, or made into complex ideas, by several combinations, 718 II, XVIII | some others of the simple ideas, viz. those of unity, duration, 719 II, XVIII | great variety of complex ideas, with names belonging to 720 II, XVIII | and therefore they made ideas of actions very nicely modified, 721 II, XVIII | and gave those complex ideas names, that they might the 722 II, XVIII | framing different complex ideas, and giving them names, 723 II, XVIII | applied to several complex ideas of modified actions, belonging 724 II, XVIII | discourses about them. Which ideas are not generally framed 725 II, XVIII | standing for certain complex ideas, which being seldom in the 726 II, XVIII | having framed the complex ideas which these words stand 727 II, XVIII | readily conceive those ideas in their minds;—as by cohobation 728 II, XVIII | cohobation all the simple ideas of distilling, and the pouring 729 II, XVIII | great varieties of simple ideas, as of tastes and smells, 730 II, XIX | thence receives distinct ideas. Thus the perception or 731 II, XIX | it is contemplation: when ideas float in our mind, without 732 II, XIX | a name for it: when the ideas that offer themselves (for, 733 II, XIX | will always be a train of ideas succeeding one another in 734 II, XIX | ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention 735 II, XIX | itself is the having of ideas (whilst the outward senses 736 II, XIX | and so have as distinct ideas of as it hath of white and 737 II, XIX | at large of this set of ideas, which are got from reflection: 738 II, XIX | examples, of what sort these ideas are, and how the mind comes 739 II, XIX | suggest. That there are ideas, some or other, always present 740 II, XIX | objects, that it turns their ideas on all sides; marks their 741 II, XIX | barely observes the train of ideas that succeed in the understanding, 742 II, XIX | very vivid and sensible ideas. I need not, for this, instance 743 II, XIX | the sight perfectly of all ideas whatsoever: since, I say, 744 II, XX | Pleasure and pain, simple ideas. Amongst the simple ideas 745 II, XX | ideas. Amongst the simple ideas which we receive both from 746 II, XX | These, like other simple ideas, cannot be described, nor 747 II, XX | them is, as of the simple ideas of the senses, only by experience. 748 II, XX | thence form to ourselves the ideas of our passions.~4. Love. 749 II, XX | further than into the bare ideas of our passions, as they 750 II, XX | suffices to note, that our ideas of love and hatred are but 751 II, XX | instances to show how our ideas of the passions are got 752 II, XX | in them, and show how the ideas we have of them are derived 753 II, XXI | alteration of those simple ideas it observes in things without; 754 II, XXI | a constant change of its ideas, sometimes by the impression 755 II, XXI | having any of its simple ideas changed, and in another 756 II, XXI | the change of perceivable ideas. For we cannot observe any 757 II, XXI | observable change of its sensible ideas; nor conceive any alteration 758 II, XXI | a change of some of its ideas.~2. Power, active and passive. 759 II, XXI | great a part of our complex ideas of natural substances, ( 760 II, XXI | as indeed which of our ideas, of what kind soever, when 761 II, XXI | considered, does not? For, our ideas of extension, duration, 762 II, XXI | place amongst other simple ideas, and be considered as one 763 II, XXI | ingredient in our complex ideas of substances, as we shall 764 II, XXI | whence we have the clearest ideas of the powers which produce 765 II, XXI | whereby the mind comes by its ideas: only I thought it worth 766 II, XXI | sorts:—1. The perception of ideas in our minds. 2. The perception 767 II, XXI | there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed 768 II, XXI | carefully attend to their own ideas, and conduct their thoughts 769 II, XXI | relating to them.~7. Whence the ideas of liberty and necessity. 770 II, XXI | finds in himself, arise the ideas of liberty and necessity.~ 771 II, XXI | necessity of having some ideas constantly in his mind, 772 II, XXI | he is, in respect of his ideas, as much at liberty as he 773 II, XXI | to another. But yet some ideas to the mind, like some motions 774 II, XXI | on in infinitum.~26. The ideas of liberty and volition 775 II, XXI | in our minds determined ideas of the things under consideration. 776 II, XXI | under consideration. If the ideas of liberty and volition 777 II, XXI | is there only, like other ideas, the object of bare unactive 778 II, XXI | it has led me into. The ideas of will, volition, liberty, 779 II, XXI | said above, that we have ideas but of two sorts of action, 780 II, XXI | on or alters the sensible ideas of another substance, and 781 II, XXI | thinking, a power to receive ideas or thoughts from the operation 782 II, XXI | able to bring into view ideas out of sight at one’s own 783 II, XXI | only the reception of the ideas of light, roundness, and 784 II, XXI | Summary of our original ideas. And thus I have, in a short 785 II, XXI | given a view of our original ideas, from whence all the rest 786 II, XXI | perhaps, all the original ideas on which the rest depend. 787 II, XXI | tastes, smells, and all other ideas we have, if we had but faculties 788 II, XXI | has of things, by those ideas and appearances which God 789 II, XXI | power to produce in us the ideas of their sensible qualities. 790 II, XXI | when we go beyond the bare ideas in our minds, and would 791 II, XXI | whereby it produces different ideas in us, but the different 792 II, XXII | modes; such are the complex ideas we mark by the names obligation, 793 II, XXII | several combinations of simple ideas of different kinds, I have 794 II, XXII | which consist only of simple ideas of the same kind. These 795 II, XXII | such combinations of simple ideas as are not looked upon to 796 II, XXII | scattered and independent ideas put together by the mind, 797 II, XXII | distinguished from the complex ideas of substances.~2. Made by 798 II, XXII | in respect of its simple ideas, is wholly passive, and 799 II, XXII | attentively consider these ideas I call mixed modes, we are 800 II, XXII | once furnished with simple ideas, it can put them together 801 II, XXII | make variety of complex ideas, without examining whether 802 II, XXII | I think it is that these ideas are called notions: as if 803 II, XXII | things; and to form such ideas, it sufficed that the mind 804 II, XXII | existence of several simple ideas so combined, as they are 805 II, XXII | several of those complex ideas, which were consequent to 806 II, XXII | that stood for such complex ideas were in use, and so those 807 II, XXII | were in use, and so those ideas framed, before the combinations 808 II, XXII | of getting these complex ideas is, by the explication of 809 II, XXII | consisting of a company of simple ideas combined, they may, by words 810 II, XXII | standing for those simple ideas, be represented to the mind 811 II, XXII | complex combination of simple ideas were never offered to his 812 II, XXII | enumerating to him the simple ideas which these words stand 813 II, XXII | of many distinct simple ideas, it seems reasonable to 814 II, XXII | combining those several simple ideas together, and considering 815 II, XXII | considering any number of simple ideas to make one complex one, 816 II, XXII | several combinations of simple ideas into distinct, and, as it 817 II, XXII | combined and make distinct ideas, we shall find the reason 818 II, XXII | make such collections of ideas into complex modes, and 819 II, XXII | when they have need) such ideas as make them up, by the 820 II, XXII | by multiplying of complex ideas with names to them, which 821 II, XXII | several combinations of ideas familiar and necessary in 822 II, XXII | so many distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos 823 II, XXII | because they stood for complex ideas which were not in the minds 824 II, XXII | of such combinations of ideas as were united, and, as 825 II, XXII | with it new combinations of ideas, which it is necessary frequently 826 II, XXII | What a number of different ideas are by this means wrapped 827 II, XXII | pains to enumerate all the ideas that either reprieve or 828 II, XXII | transient combinations of simple ideas, which have but a short 829 II, XXII | therefore, in this sort of ideas, very apt to be taken for 830 II, XXII | apt to be taken for the ideas themselves. For, if we should 831 II, XXII | minds of men, where the ideas of these actions are supposed 832 II, XXII | in us.~9. How we get the ideas of mixed modes. There are 833 II, XXII | whereby we get these complex ideas of mixed modes:—(1) By experience 834 II, XXII | together of several simple ideas in our own minds: so he 835 II, XXII | our imaginations all those ideas which go to the making them 836 II, XXII | stored our minds with simple ideas, and by use got the names 837 II, XXII | that it has in it no simple ideas but what he knows, and has 838 II, XXII | for. For all our complex ideas are ultimately resolvable 839 II, XXII | ultimately resolvable into simple ideas, of which they are compounded 840 II, XXII | so say, are also complex ideas. Thus, the mixed mode which 841 II, XXII | is made of these simple ideas:—(1) Articulate sounds. ( 842 II, XXII | Articulate sounds. (2) Certain ideas in the mind of the speaker. ( 843 II, XXII | words the signs of those ideas. (4) Those signs put together, 844 II, XXII | negation, otherwise than the ideas they stand for are in the 845 II, XXII | it is made up of simple ideas. And it could not be but 846 II, XXII | done in all our complex ideas whatsoever; which, however 847 II, XXII | be resolved into simple ideas, which are all the materials 848 II, XXII | to too scanty a number of ideas, if we consider what an 849 II, XXII | combinations of different simple ideas, and their infinite modes, 850 II, XXII | confined only to simple ideas, received from sensation 851 II, XXII | which of all our simple ideas have been most modified, 852 II, XXII | modified, and had most mixed ideas made out of them, with names 853 II, XXII | motion (which are the two ideas which comprehend in them 854 II, XXII | conceived to flow. These simple ideas, I say, of thinking, motion, 855 II, XXII | be taken notice of, the ideas of them observed, and laid 856 II, XXII | men without such complex ideas, with names to them: and 857 II, XXII | names, and supposed settled ideas in their minds, of modes 858 II, XXII | many collections of simple ideas, which, together, make up 859 II, XXII | produced, or the simple ideas which are introduced into 860 II, XXII | other senses, or as the ideas of colours to a blind man. 861 II, XXII | modes made also of other ideas than those of power and 862 II, XXII | of men, yet other simple ideas, and their several combinations, 863 II, XXII | is to show what sort of ideas those are which I call mixed 864 II, XXII | compositions made up of simple ideas got from sensation and reflection; 865 II, XXIII | Chapter XXIII~Of our Complex Ideas of Substances ~1. Ideas 866 II, XXIII | Ideas of Substances ~1. Ideas of particular substances, 867 II, XXIII | great number of the simple ideas, conveyed in by the senses 868 II, XXIII | certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together; 869 II, XXIII | is a complication of many ideas together: because, as I 870 II, XXIII | imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, 871 II, XXIII | capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are 872 II, XXIII | having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children: 873 II, XXIII | made we come to have the ideas of particular sorts of substances, 874 II, XXIII | such combinations of simple ideas as are, by experience and 875 II, XXIII | Thus we come to have the ideas of a man, horse, gold, water, & 876 II, XXIII | further than of certain simple ideas co-existent together, I 877 II, XXIII | collection of those simple ideas which are to be found in 878 II, XXIII | notice, that our complex ideas of substances, besides all 879 II, XXIII | besides all those simple ideas they are made up of, have 880 II, XXIII | thinking, or other observable ideas, though we know not what 881 II, XXIII | of those several simple ideas of sensible qualities, which 882 II, XXIII | substratum to those simple ideas we have from without; and 883 II, XXIII | substance of a spirit.~6. Our ideas of particular sorts of substances. 884 II, XXIII | substance in general, all the ideas we have of particular distinct 885 II, XXIII | several combinations of simple ideas, coexisting in such, though 886 II, XXIII | such combinations of simple ideas, and nothing else, that 887 II, XXIII | ourselves; such are the ideas we have of their several 888 II, XXIII | of those several simple ideas which he has usually observed, 889 II, XXIII | those qualities or simple ideas, which he has observed to 890 II, XXIII | of those several simple ideas, bright, hot, roundish, 891 II, XXIII | those sensible qualities, ideas, or properties, which are 892 II, XXIII | great part of our complex ideas of substances. For he has 893 II, XXIII | together, most of those simple ideas which do exist in it; among 894 II, XXIII | which, though not simple ideas, yet in this respect, for 895 II, XXIII | drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that 896 II, XXIII | produce in us those simple ideas which we receive immediately 897 II, XXIII | powers in it to produce those ideas in us: we also by our senses 898 II, XXIII | exhibit to us new sensible ideas, therefore it is that I 899 II, XXIII | powers amongst the simple ideas which make the complex ones 900 II, XXIII | themselves, are truly complex ideas. And in this looser sense 901 II, XXIII | potentialities among the simple ideas which we recollect in our 902 II, XXIII | great part of our complex ideas of substances; since their 903 II, XXIII | and marks whereby to frame ideas of them in our minds, and 904 II, XXIII | bodies.~9. Three sorts of ideas make our complex ones of 905 II, XXIII | corporeal substances. The ideas that make our complex ones 906 II, XXIII | three sorts. First, the ideas of the primary qualities 907 II, XXIII | have to produce several ideas in us by our senses; which 908 II, XXIII | us by our senses; which ideas are not in the things themselves, 909 II, XXIII | produce in us different ideas from what it did before; 910 II, XXIII | only in sensible simple ideas. For whatever alteration 911 II, XXIII | great part of our complex ideas of particular substances. 912 II, XXIII | great part of our complex ideas of substances. He that will 913 II, XXIII | will find several of its ideas that make it up to be only 914 II, XXIII | dissolved in aqua regia, are ideas as necessary to make up 915 II, XXIII | cannot leave out of our ideas of the sun, is no more really 916 II, XXIII | produce quite different ideas in us: and that which is 917 II, XXIII | sight, produces different ideas from what it did before. 918 II, XXIII | many of them, probably get ideas of their internal constitutions: 919 II, XXIII | and others: the visible ideas of everything would be different. 920 II, XXIII | very guesses beyond the ideas received from our own sensation 921 II, XXIII | to us.~14. Our specific ideas of substances. But to return 922 II, XXIII | the matter in hand,—the ideas we have of substances, and 923 II, XXIII | them. I say, our specific ideas of substances are nothing 924 II, XXIII | certain number of simple ideas, considered as united in 925 II, XXIII | united in one thing. These ideas of substances, though they 926 II, XXIII | terminate in sensible simple ideas, all united in one common 927 II, XXIII | common subject.~15. Our ideas of spiritual substances, 928 II, XXIII | substances. Besides the complex ideas we have of material sensible 929 II, XXIII | last spoken,—by the simple ideas we have taken from those 930 II, XXIII | by putting together the ideas of thinking, perceiving, 931 II, XXIII | For putting together the ideas of thinking and willing, 932 II, XXIII | by putting together the ideas of coherent solid parts, 933 II, XXIII | being as clear and distinct ideas as the ideas of extension, 934 II, XXIII | and distinct ideas as the ideas of extension, solidity, 935 II, XXIII | not what, to support those ideas we call accidents. It is 936 II, XXIII | more or clearer primary ideas belonging to body, than 937 II, XXIII | and impulse, the primary ideas peculiar to body. The primary 938 II, XXIII | peculiar to body. The primary ideas we have peculiar to body, 939 II, XXIII | think, are the original ideas proper and peculiar to body; 940 II, XXIII | and motivity the primary ideas peculiar to spirit. The 941 II, XXIII | peculiar to spirit. The ideas we have belonging and peculiar 942 II, XXIII | do so, as it pleases. The ideas of existence, duration, 943 II, XXIII | I think, are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished; 944 II, XXIII | motion by thought. These ideas, the one of body, the other 945 II, XXIII | mind every day affords us ideas of an active power of moving 946 II, XXIII | have as many and as clear ideas belonging to spirit as we 947 II, XXIII | look beyond those original ideas we have from sensation or 948 II, XXIII | furnishes us with the clear ideas both of the one and the 949 II, XXIII | other. But beyond these ideas, as received from their 950 II, XXIII | to discover wherein the ideas belonging to body consist, 951 II, XXIII | probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation 952 II, XXIII | and hidden causes of those ideas.~30. Our idea of spirit 953 II, XXIII | we have distinct clear ideas of: so likewise we know, 954 II, XXIII | and have distinct clear ideas, of two primary qualities 955 II, XXIII | motions. We have also the ideas of several qualities inherent 956 II, XXIII | have the clear distinct ideas of them; which qualities 957 II, XXIII | motion. We have likewise the ideas of the several modes of 958 II, XXIII | thinking. We have also the ideas of willing, and moving the 959 II, XXIII | things beyond our simple ideas of them. Which we are not 960 II, XXIII | but some few superficial ideas of things, discovered to 961 II, XXIII | they being both but simple ideas, independent one from another: 962 II, XXIII | having as clear and distinct ideas in us of thinking, as of 963 II, XXIII | proceed beyond these simple ideas we have from sensation and 964 II, XXIII | whichever of these complex ideas be clearest, that of body, 965 II, XXIII | evident, that the simple ideas that make them up are no 966 II, XXIII | so is it of all our other ideas of substances, even of God 967 II, XXIII | way; and that the complex ideas we have both of God, and 968 II, XXIII | are made of the simple ideas we receive from reflection: 969 II, XXIII | experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration; 970 II, XXIII | of enlarging some of its ideas, received from sensation 971 II, XXIII | perfections (which we can have any ideas of) to that sovereign Being, 972 II, XXIII | by enlarging those simple ideas we have taken from the operations 973 II, XXIII | infinity, which, joined to our ideas of existence, power, knowledge, & 974 II, XXIII | which are all distinct ideas, and some of them, being 975 II, XXIII | notion we have of God.~36. No ideas in our complex ideas of 976 II, XXIII | No ideas in our complex ideas of spirits, but those got 977 II, XXIII | capable of no other simple ideas, belonging to anything but 978 II, XXIII | happiness, &c. For that in our ideas, as well of spirits as of 979 II, XXIII | from hence,—That, in our ideas of spirits, how much soever 980 II, XXIII | we have seen what kind of ideas we have of substances of 981 II, XXIII | evident,~First, That all our ideas of the several sorts of 982 II, XXIII | but collections of simple ideas: with a supposition of something 983 II, XXIII | Secondly, That all the simple ideas, that thus united in one 984 II, XXIII | substratum, make up our complex ideas of several sorts of substances, 985 II, XXIII | cannot go beyond those simple ideas. And even in those which 986 II, XXIII | nothing but those simple ideas, which we originally received 987 II, XXIII | is evident in the complex ideas we have of angels, and particularly 988 II, XXIII | That most of the simple ideas that make up our complex 989 II, XXIII | that make up our complex ideas of substances, when truly 990 II, XXIII | the greatest part of the ideas that make our complex idea 991 II, XXIII | unknown substratum: all which ideas are nothing else but so 992 II, XXIV | Chapter XXIV~Of Collective Ideas of Substances ~1. A collective 993 II, XXIV | idea. Besides these complex ideas of several single substances, 994 II, XXIV | also complex collective ideas of substances; which I so 995 II, XXIV | I so call, because such ideas are made up of many particular 996 II, XXIV | the mind. These collective ideas of substances the mind makes, 997 II, XXIV | either simple or complex ideas into one, as it does, by 998 II, XXIV | faculty, make the complex ideas of particular substances, 999 II, XXIV | aggregate of divers simple ideas, united in one substance. 1000 II, XXIV | putting together the repeated ideas of unity, makes the collective