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2001 IV, II | the mind has of its own ideas, which is the utmost light 2002 IV, II | disagreement of any of its ideas. For if we will reflect 2003 IV, II | agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, 2004 IV, II | at the first sight of the ideas together, by bare intuition; 2005 IV, II | perceives it to be; and that two ideas, wherein he perceives a 2006 IV, II | connexions of the intermediate ideas, without which we cannot 2007 IV, II | agreement or disagreement of any ideas, but not immediately. Though 2008 IV, II | disagreement of any of its ideas, there be certain knowledge; 2009 IV, II | agreement or disagreement of two ideas, is, because those ideas, 2010 IV, II | ideas, is, because those ideas, concerning whose agreement 2011 IV, II | mind cannot so bring its ideas together as by their immediate 2012 IV, II | the intervention of other ideas (one or more, as it happens) 2013 IV, II | proofs. Those intervening ideas, which serve to show the 2014 IV, II | find out these intermediate ideas, (that shall discover the 2015 IV, II | agreement or disagreement of the ideas it considers; yet it is 2016 IV, II | or repugnancy between two ideas that need proofs and the 2017 IV, II | intervention of the intermediate ideas, the agreement or disagreement 2018 IV, II | degree capable of distinct ideas; no more than it can be 2019 IV, II | or disagreement of those ideas that produce intuitive knowledge. 2020 IV, II | agreement or disagreement of the ideas concerning which we inquire 2021 IV, II | agreement of the intervening ideas, whereby the agreement or 2022 IV, II | disagreement of the two ideas under examination (whereof 2023 IV, II | disagreement of the intermediate ideas, in each step and progression 2024 IV, II | Demonstration not limited to ideas of mathematical quantity. 2025 IV, II | not the privilege of the ideas of number, extension, and 2026 IV, II | mathematicians. For whatever ideas we have wherein the mind 2027 IV, II | disagreement of any two ideas, by an intuitive perception 2028 IV, II | have with any intermediate ideas, there the mind is capable 2029 IV, II | which is not limited to ideas of extension, figure, number, 2030 IV, II | lasting marks, wherein the ideas under consideration are 2031 IV, II | quantity. But in other simple ideas, whose modes and differences 2032 IV, II | For those other simple ideas, being appearances of sensations 2033 IV, II | degrees of these simple ideas. For, supposing the sensation 2034 IV, II | Particles of light and simple ideas of colour. Whether then 2035 IV, II | the mind clearly distinct ideas, whose differences can be 2036 IV, II | perfectly retained, there these ideas or colours, as we see in 2037 IV, II | capable of demonstration as ideas of number and extension. 2038 IV, II | because men may have such ideas in their minds, when no 2039 IV, II | between any two distinct ideas. If any one say, a dream 2040 IV, II | same thing, and all these ideas may be produced in us without 2041 IV, II | of the actual entrance of ideas from them, and allow these 2042 IV, II | always clear, where the ideas that enter into it are clear. 2043 IV, II | on and employed about our ideas only, will it not follow 2044 IV, II | it is conformable to our ideas; and that where our ideas 2045 IV, II | ideas; and that where our ideas are clear and distinct, 2046 IV, II | disagreement of any two ideas, its clearness or obscurity 2047 IV, II | clearness or obscurity of the ideas themselves: v.g. a man that 2048 IV, II | a man that has as clear ideas of the angles of a triangle, 2049 IV, II | obscure knowledge of it. But ideas which, by reason of their 2050 IV, II | because, as far as any ideas are confused, so far the 2051 IV, II | that hath not determined ideas to the words he uses, cannot 2052 IV, III | disagreement of any of our ideas, it follows from hence That,~ 2053 IV, III | no further than we have ideas. First, we can have knowledge 2054 IV, III | no further than we have ideas.~2. It extends no further 2055 IV, III | immediate comparing any two ideas; or, 2. By reason, examining 2056 IV, III | agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of 2057 IV, III | the relations of all our ideas. Thirdly, That we cannot 2058 IV, III | extend itself to all our ideas, and all that we would know 2059 IV, III | another. Thus, having the ideas of an obtuse and an acute 2060 IV, III | the whole extent of our ideas: because between two different 2061 IV, III | because between two different ideas we would examine, we cannot 2062 IV, III | therefore, narrower than our ideas. Sixthly, From all which 2063 IV, III | of the extent of our own ideas. Though our knowledge be 2064 IV, III | knowledge be limited to our ideas, and cannot exceed them 2065 IV, III | were but as large as our ideas, and there were not many 2066 IV, III | inquiries concerning the ideas we have, whereof we are 2067 IV, III | to know concerning those ideas we have; nor be able to 2068 IV, III | any of them. We have the ideas of a square, a circle, and 2069 IV, III | that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, 2070 IV, III | contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to 2071 IV, III | the utmost reach of our ideas, being able to produce nothing 2072 IV, III | our reason, go beyond our ideas, and attribute it wholly 2073 IV, III | and agreement of very many ideas, and readily supplies to 2074 IV, III | and imperfections of the ideas we have, and which we employ 2075 IV, III | negations we make concerning the ideas we have, may, as I have 2076 IV, III | identity and diversity in ideas extends as far as our ideas 2077 IV, III | ideas extends as far as our ideas themselves. First, as to 2078 IV, III | agreement or disagreement of our ideas, our intuitive knowledge 2079 IV, III | is as far extended as our ideas themselves: and there can 2080 IV, III | agreement or disagreement of our ideas in co-existence, in this 2081 IV, III | concerning substances. For our ideas of the species of substances 2082 IV, III | certain collections of simple ideas united in one subject, and 2083 IV, III | these, or some such complex ideas as these, in men’s minds, 2084 IV, III | to know what other simple ideas do, or do not co-exist with 2085 IV, III | connexion between simple ideas in substances is for the 2086 IV, III | whereof is, that the simple ideas whereof our complex ideas 2087 IV, III | ideas whereof our complex ideas of substances are made up 2088 IV, III | inconsistency with any other simple ideas, whose co-existence with 2089 IV, III | qualities of bodies. The ideas that our complex ones of 2090 IV, III | may so say) of different ideas in the same subject; and 2091 IV, III | endeavour to discover by our ideas (the only true way of certain 2092 IV, III | universal knowledge) what other ideas are to be found constantly 2093 IV, III | hardly, from the simple ideas contained in it, certainly 2094 IV, III | perhaps some others of our ideas have: yet there are so few 2095 IV, III | evident connexion of their ideas one with another, we cannot 2096 IV, III | because no one of these ideas has any evident dependence 2097 IV, III | necessary connexion of the ideas themselves.~15. Of repugnancy 2098 IV, III | certain of all sensible ideas peculiar to each sense; 2099 IV, III | connexion with any of those ideas which to us make its essence. 2100 IV, III | repugnance to, any of those ideas which make our complex one 2101 IV, III | whereof we naturally have no ideas but what we draw from that 2102 IV, III | relations between abstracted ideas it is not easy to say how 2103 IV, III | disagreement of any of our ideas in any other relation: this, 2104 IV, III | in finding intermediate ideas, that may show the relations 2105 IV, III | relations and habitudes of ideas whose co-existence is not 2106 IV, III | or disagreement of remote ideas. They that are ignorant 2107 IV, III | least I believe, that the ideas of quantity are not those 2108 IV, III | it is evident that these ideas, being thus established, 2109 IV, III | Two things have made moral ideas to be thought incapable 2110 IV, III | given the advantage to the ideas of quantity, and made them 2111 IV, III | paper are copies of the ideas in the mind, and not liable 2112 IV, III | the least change in the ideas. This cannot be thus done 2113 IV, III | cannot be thus done in moral ideas: we have no sensible marks 2114 IV, III | remain the same, yet the ideas they stand for may change 2115 IV, III | in ethics is, That moral ideas are commonly more complex 2116 IV, III | precise collection of simple ideas they stand for not being 2117 IV, III | avoidable in very complex moral ideas, where the same name being 2118 IV, III | complexedness of these moral ideas there follows another inconvenience, 2119 IV, III | of several other complex ideas to show the agreement or 2120 IV, III | taking a view of its own ideas, and considering their agreement 2121 IV, III | carry so many different ideas in the mind, without confounding 2122 IV, III | by intuition of its own ideas of the numbers themselves. 2123 IV, III | record and retain the several ideas about which the demonstration 2124 IV, III | demonstratively with moral ideas. One part of these disadvantages 2125 IV, III | these disadvantages in moral ideas which has made them be thought 2126 IV, III | that collection of simple ideas, which every term shall 2127 IV, III | from our clear and distinct ideas, and to come nearer perfect 2128 IV, III | have clear and distinct ideas, we confine our thoughts 2129 IV, III | Its causes. First, Want of ideas.~Secondly, Want of a discoverable 2130 IV, III | discoverable connexion between the ideas we have.~Thirdly, Want of 2131 IV, III | tracing and examining our ideas.~23. One cause of our ignorance 2132 IV, III | of our ignorance want of ideas. First, There are some things, 2133 IV, III | ignorant of, for want of ideas.~I. Want of simple ideas 2134 IV, III | ideas.~I. Want of simple ideas that other creatures in 2135 IV, III | have. First, all the simple ideas we have are confined (as 2136 IV, III | things. What other simple ideas it is possible the creatures 2137 IV, III | constitutions of things; what ideas they may receive of them 2138 IV, III | may be convinced that the ideas we can attain to by our 2139 IV, III | concealed from us. But want of ideas of this kind, being a part 2140 IV, III | rest.~24. Want of simple ideas that men are capable of 2141 IV, III | ignorance is the want of ideas we are capable of. As the 2142 IV, III | capable of. As the want of ideas which our faculties are 2143 IV, III | nothing; so the want of ideas I now speak of keeps us 2144 IV, III | figure, and motion we have ideas of. But though we are not 2145 IV, III | though we are not without ideas of these primary qualities 2146 IV, III | to convey their certain ideas into our minds? They are 2147 IV, III | have clear and distinct ideas of them.~25. Because of 2148 IV, III | want of precise distinct ideas of their primary qualities 2149 IV, III | of bodies, and to give us ideas of their mechanical affections, 2150 IV, III | want perfect and adequate ideas of those very bodies which 2151 IV, III | imperfect and incomplete ideas of. Distinct ideas of the 2152 IV, III | incomplete ideas of. Distinct ideas of the several sorts of 2153 IV, III | we may have: but adequate ideas, I suspect, we have not 2154 IV, III | have as clear and distinct ideas of sage and hemlock, as 2155 IV, III | triangle: but having no ideas of the particular primary 2156 IV, III | production. Thus, having no ideas of the particular mechanical 2157 IV, III | to ourselves any distinct ideas of their several ranks and 2158 IV, III | so call them, superficial ideas of spirit, which by reflection 2159 IV, III | Much less have we distinct ideas of their different natures, 2160 IV, III | discoverable connexion between ideas we have. Secondly, What 2161 IV, III | the universe the want of ideas leaves open to our knowledge, 2162 IV, III | connexion between those ideas we have. For wherever we 2163 IV, III | affinity at all with those ideas they produce in us, (there 2164 IV, III | our comprehensions. As the ideas of sensible secondary qualities 2165 IV, III | remote from the nature of our ideas, as how any body should 2166 IV, III | not discoverable in the ideas themselves, which appearing 2167 IV, III | Instances. In some of our ideas there are certain relations, 2168 IV, III | included in the nature of the ideas themselves, that we cannot 2169 IV, III | this connexion of these two ideas, to be possibly mutable, 2170 IV, III | natural connexion with any ideas we have, we cannot but ascribe 2171 IV, III | not discoverable in our ideas, we can have but an experimental 2172 IV, III | cause, want of tracing our ideas. Thirdly, Where we have 2173 IV, III | Where we have adequate ideas, and where there is a certain 2174 IV, III | for want of tracing those ideas which we have or may have; 2175 IV, III | finding out those intermediate ideas, which may show us what 2176 IV, III | due ways comparing those ideas. That which has most contributed 2177 IV, III | hinder the due tracing of our ideas, and finding out their relations, 2178 IV, III | agreement or disagreement of ideas themselves, whilst their 2179 IV, III | set before their minds the ideas themselves that they would 2180 IV, III | follows the nature of our ideas. If the ideas are abstract, 2181 IV, III | nature of our ideas. If the ideas are abstract, whose agreement 2182 IV, III | is known of such general ideas, will be true of every particular 2183 IV, III | what is once known of such ideas, will be perpetually and 2184 IV, III | the examining of our own ideas that furnisheth us with 2185 IV, III | things (that is, to abstract ideas) are eternal; and are to 2186 IV, IV | Knowledge placed in our ideas may be all unreal or chimerical.” 2187 IV, IV | disagreement of our own ideas: but who knows what those 2188 IV, IV | but who knows what those ideas may be? Is there anything 2189 IV, IV | world? They both have their ideas, and perceive their agreement 2190 IV, IV | side, as having the more ideas, and the more lively. And 2191 IV, IV | disagreement of our own ideas, the visions of an enthusiast 2192 IV, IV | Answer: “Not so, where ideas agree with things.” To which 2193 IV, IV | if our knowledge of our ideas terminate in them, and reach 2194 IV, IV | the knowledge of our own ideas, goes a little further than 2195 IV, IV | the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, 2196 IV, IV | a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. 2197 IV, IV | perceives nothing but its own ideas, know that they agree with 2198 IV, IV | think, there be two sorts of ideas that we may be assured agree 2199 IV, IV | things.~4. As all simple ideas are really conformed to 2200 IV, IV | First, The first are simple ideas, which since the mind, as 2201 IV, IV | it follows, that simple ideas are not fictions of our 2202 IV, IV | conformity between our simple ideas and the existence of things, 2203 IV, IV | knowledge.~5. All complex ideas, except ideas of substances, 2204 IV, IV | All complex ideas, except ideas of substances, are their 2205 IV, IV | Secondly, All our complex ideas, except those of substances, 2206 IV, IV | substances, are all our complex ideas. Which, as I have shown 2207 IV, IV | place, are combinations of ideas, which the mind, by its 2208 IV, IV | that in all these sorts the ideas themselves are considered 2209 IV, IV | attain concerning these ideas is real, and reaches things 2210 IV, IV | they are conformable to our ideas. So that in these we cannot 2211 IV, IV | that it is only of our own ideas. The mathematician considers 2212 IV, IV | knowledge concerning such ideas is real knowledge: because, 2213 IV, IV | they agree with those his ideas, he is sure what he knows 2214 IV, IV | agreement or disagreement of our ideas, and demonstration nothing 2215 IV, IV | the intervention of other ideas or mediums; our moral ideas, 2216 IV, IV | ideas or mediums; our moral ideas, as well as mathematical, 2217 IV, IV | so adequate and complete ideas; all the agreement or disagreement 2218 IV, IV | that we have determined ideas: and, to make our knowledge 2219 IV, IV | it is requisite that the ideas answer their archetypes. 2220 IV, IV | the consideration of our ideas, with so little care and 2221 IV, IV | demonstrations, which depend on their ideas, are the same, whether there 2222 IV, IV | other essences but those ideas which are in the minds of 2223 IV, IV | or certain, because moral ideas are of our own making and 2224 IV, IV | contemplation of our own moral ideas, and those, as other modes, 2225 IV, IV | every one may make what ideas of them he pleases? No confusion 2226 IV, IV | the making up the complex ideas of those modes. But yet 2227 IV, IV | miscalling of any of those ideas, contrary to the usual signification 2228 IV, IV | keep to the same precise ideas, and trace them in their 2229 IV, IV | of those even nicknamed ideas.~11. Our complex ideas of 2230 IV, IV | nicknamed ideas.~11. Our complex ideas of substances have their 2231 IV, IV | another sort of complex ideas, which, being referred to 2232 IV, IV | being real. Such are our ideas of substances, which, consisting 2233 IV, IV | of a collection of simple ideas, supposed taken from the 2234 IV, IV | having more or different ideas united in them than are 2235 IV, IV | 12. So far as our complex ideas agree with those archetypes 2236 IV, IV | say, then, that to have ideas of substances which, by 2237 IV, IV | modes, to put together such ideas as have no inconsistence, 2238 IV, IV | before so exist: v.g. the ideas of sacrilege or perjury, & 2239 IV, IV | were as real and true ideas before, as after the existence 2240 IV, IV | of any such fact. But our ideas of substances, being supposed 2241 IV, IV | they must not consist of ideas put together at the pleasure 2242 IV, IV | substances whereon our simple ideas depend, and which really 2243 IV, IV | substances—That all our complex ideas of them must be such, and 2244 IV, IV | co-exist in nature. And our ideas being thus true, though 2245 IV, IV | real knowledge. Whatever ideas we have, the agreement we 2246 IV, IV | still be knowledge. If those ideas be abstract, it will be 2247 IV, IV | concerning substances, the ideas must be taken from the real 2248 IV, IV | things. Whatever simple ideas have been found to co-exist 2249 IV, IV | again, and so make abstract ideas of substances. For whatever 2250 IV, IV | substances, we must consider ideas, and not confine our thoughts 2251 IV, IV | our thoughts and abstract ideas to names, as if there were, 2252 IV, IV | anything else but our abstract ideas (such as they are) with 2253 IV, IV | disagreement of any of our ideas, there is certain knowledge: 2254 IV, IV | wherever we are sure those ideas agree with the reality of 2255 IV, IV | Of which agreement of our ideas with the reality of things, 2256 IV, V | separating of signs, i.e. either ideas or words. Truth, then, seems 2257 IV, V | commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.~3. Which make 2258 IV, V | bare consideration of the ideas, as they are in our minds, 2259 IV, V | use of words instead of ideas; at least when the subject 2260 IV, V | meditation contains in it complex ideas. Which is a great evidence 2261 IV, V | imperfection and uncertainty of our ideas of that kind, and may, if 2262 IV, V | and perfect established ideas of, and what not. For if 2263 IV, V | do frame in our minds the ideas themselves, without reflecting 2264 IV, V | propositions about the more complex ideas, as of a man, vitriol, fortitude, 2265 IV, V | for the idea: because the ideas these names stand for, being 2266 IV, V | our thoughts than the pure ideas: and so we make use of these 2267 IV, V | these words instead of the ideas themselves, even when we 2268 IV, V | the imperfections of our ideas: we making the name stand 2269 IV, V | the great number of simple ideas that go to the making them 2270 IV, V | to consider what precise ideas the most of them stood for. 2271 IV, V | First, mental, wherein the ideas in our understandings are 2272 IV, V | words, the signs of our ideas, put together or separated 2273 IV, V | disagreement of any of its ideas, does tacitly within itself 2274 IV, V | joins or separates those two ideas, viz. the idea of that line, 2275 IV, V | to that line or no. When ideas are so put together, or 2276 IV, V | words one of another, as the ideas they stand for agree or 2277 IV, V | in propositions, as the ideas they stand for agree or 2278 IV, V | filled with, and what strange ideas all men’s brains are capable 2279 IV, V | those, and the like, may be ideas in our heads, and have their 2280 IV, V | disagreement there, as well as the ideas of real beings, and so have 2281 IV, V | to the agreement of the ideas in our minds: and the agreement 2282 IV, V | Answered, “Real truth is about ideas agreeing to things.” Though 2283 IV, V | signify nothing but our ideas, yet being designed by them 2284 IV, V | verbal, when they stand for ideas in the mind that have not 2285 IV, V | agreement or disagreement of the ideas they stand for; without 2286 IV, V | without regarding whether our ideas are such as really have, 2287 IV, V | signs are joined, as our ideas agree; and when our ideas 2288 IV, V | ideas agree; and when our ideas are such as we know are 2289 IV, V | agreement or disagreement of ideas as it is. Falsehood is the 2290 IV, V | agreement or disagreement of ideas otherwise than it is. And 2291 IV, V | is. And so far as these ideas, thus marked by sounds, 2292 IV, V | consists in knowing what ideas the words stand for, and 2293 IV, V | or disagreement of those ideas, according as it is marked 2294 IV, V | things, conformable to the ideas to which we have annexed 2295 IV, VI | examining and judging of ideas by themselves, their names 2296 IV, VI | custom of using sounds for ideas, I think it is very seldom 2297 IV, VI | made use of, instead of the ideas themselves, even when men 2298 IV, VI | breasts; especially if the ideas be very complex, and made 2299 IV, VI | agreement or disagreement of the ideas they stand for, as really 2300 IV, VI | agreement or disagreement of ideas, as expressed in any proposition. 2301 IV, VI | it.~This, in all simple ideas and modes, is not hard to 2302 IV, VI | realities, than barely abstract ideas with names to them. To suppose 2303 IV, VI | agree to several abstract ideas of which we make those names 2304 IV, VI | they should be, for the ideas men have in their minds, 2305 IV, VI | but because the complex ideas they stand for are such 2306 IV, VI | but with a very few other ideas.~7. Because necessary co-existence 2307 IV, VI | necessary co-existence of simple ideas in substances can in few 2308 IV, VI | cases be known. The complex ideas that our names of the species 2309 IV, VI | of gold and other simple ideas. As there is no discoverable 2310 IV, VI | weight, and other simple ideas of that nominal essence 2311 IV, VI | from consideration of the ideas themselves, with certainty 2312 IV, VI | barely of the relation of two ideas that may exist separately; 2313 IV, VI | co-existence of several distinct ideas in the same subject, or 2314 IV, VI | might frame such abstract ideas of them as would furnish 2315 IV, VI | But whilst our complex ideas of the sorts of substances 2316 IV, VI | there are but few simple ideas of whose connexion and necessary 2317 IV, VI | any collections of such ideas, it is not to be wondered 2318 IV, VI | qualities which make our complex ideas of substances depend mostly 2319 IV, VI | unperceived causes. Had we such ideas of substances as to know 2320 IV, VI | we could, by the specific ideas of their real essences in 2321 IV, VI | make no part of the complex ideas we frame of those animals. 2322 IV, VI | that we have very imperfect ideas of substances, and that 2323 IV, VI | and of which our complex ideas of them are made up. This 2324 IV, VI | hopes of ever having the ideas of their real essences; 2325 IV, VI | contemplation of our own abstract ideas. Wherever we perceive any 2326 IV, VI | putting the names of those ideas together accordingly in 2327 IV, VI | But because the abstract ideas of substances, for which 2328 IV, VI | with but a very few other ideas, the certainty of universal 2329 IV, VI | produce certain sensations or ideas in us. This is in truth 2330 IV, VI | those frame our abstract ideas of them. I have mentioned 2331 IV, VI | 15. Whilst our complex ideas of substances contain not 2332 IV, VI | of substances contain not ideas of their real constitutions, 2333 IV, VI | evident, the abstract complex ideas of substances. for which 2334 IV, VI | universal certainty. Because our ideas of them are not made up 2335 IV, VI | connexion: v.g. let the ideas to which we give the name 2336 IV, VI | by hemlock: because these ideas have no connexion nor repugnancy 2337 IV, VI | but as long as we want ideas of those real constitutions 2338 IV, VI | concerning them. Those few ideas only which have a discernible 2339 IV, VI | used in them stand for such ideas, whose agreement or disagreement, 2340 IV, VI | falsehood, when we perceive the ideas the terms stand for to agree 2341 IV, VI | never to be found but in our ideas. Whenever we go to seek 2342 IV, VI | contemplation of our own abstract ideas that alone is able to afford 2343 IV, VII | agreement or disagreement of ideas. Now, where that agreement 2344 IV, VII | comparing them, finds in those ideas answering the affirmation 2345 IV, VII | agreement or disagreement of ideas which I have above mentioned, 2346 IV, VII | the mind’s having distinct ideas, this affords us as many 2347 IV, VII | propositions as we have distinct ideas. Every one that has any 2348 IV, VII | it, various and distinct ideas: and it is the first act 2349 IV, VII | to know every one of its ideas by itself, and distinguish 2350 IV, VII | himself, that he knows the ideas he has; that he knows also, 2351 IV, VII | is; and that two distinct ideas, when they are in his mind, 2352 IV, VII | in our minds determined ideas, which the terms in the 2353 IV, VII | so as to perceive the two ideas signified by the terms, 2354 IV, VII | standing for more general ideas, or such as are less so: 2355 IV, VII | The difference of the ideas, as soon as the terms are 2356 IV, VII | the mind perceives, in any ideas that it has, the same idea 2357 IV, VII | itself; and two different ideas to be different, and not 2358 IV, VII | certain of, whether these ideas be more or less general, 2359 IV, VII | belongs no more to these vague ideas, signified by the terms 2360 IV, VII | than it does to any other ideas. These two general maxims, 2361 IV, VII | employed about particular ideas. There is nothing more visible 2362 IV, VII | experiment in himself) in all the ideas a man has in his mind: he 2363 IV, VII | knowledge reaches as far as our ideas. And we are capable of making 2364 IV, VII | have names for distinct ideas. And I appeal to every one’ 2365 IV, VII | necessary connexion between two ideas that, in the subject where 2366 IV, VII | connexion with any other of our ideas, but that of ourselves, 2367 IV, VII | agreement or disagreement of its ideas, according as it finds them 2368 IV, VII | and every two distinct ideas being known not to be the 2369 IV, VII | first known which consist of ideas that are first in the mind. 2370 IV, VII | first in the mind. And the ideas first in the mind, it is 2371 IV, VII | to them. Thus particular ideas are first received and distinguished, 2372 IV, VII | particular. For abstract ideas are not so obvious or easy 2373 IV, VII | shall find that general ideas are fictions and contrivances 2374 IV, VII | different and inconsistent ideas are put together. It is 2375 IV, VII | state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste 2376 IV, VII | has reason to suspect such ideas are marks of our imperfection; 2377 IV, VII | most abstract and general ideas are not those that the mind 2378 IV, VII | self-evidence: the equality of those ideas being as visible and certain 2379 IV, VII | there be any odds in those ideas, the whole and parts are 2380 IV, VII | made about all our distinct ideas, principles will be almost 2381 IV, VII | whichever be the clearest ideas, the evidence and certainty 2382 IV, VII | perceives two different ideas to be different ideas. For 2383 IV, VII | different ideas to be different ideas. For when a man has in his 2384 IV, VII | in his understanding the ideas of one and of two, the idea 2385 IV, VII | man cannot confound the ideas in his mind, which he has 2386 IV, VII | whatsoever two entire distinct ideas are denied one of another, 2387 IV, VII | finding out intermediate ideas that showed the agreement 2388 IV, VII | agreement or disagreement of the ideas, as expressed in the propositions 2389 IV, VII | done by the intermediate ideas made use of in the debate, 2390 IV, VII | them on settled, determined ideas of things; I say these general 2391 IV, VII | same subject, these two ideas are not exactly one and 2392 IV, VII | understanding as distinct as the ideas of one and two, white and 2393 IV, VII | distinct knowledge of our own ideas, more general or comprehensive, 2394 IV, VII | retain the names without the ideas; or use them confusedly, 2395 IV, VII | dangerous use in undetermined ideas, I have been far enough 2396 IV, VII | their application to complex ideas is dangerous. But let them 2397 IV, VII | without them, viz. where our ideas are [determined] and known 2398 IV, VII | words standing for complex ideas, v.g. man, horse, gold, 2399 IV, VII | terms standing for complex ideas, than where the propositions 2400 IV, VII | propositions are about simple ideas. But because men mistake 2401 IV, VII | same things, though the ideas they stand for are in truth 2402 IV, VII | and such a complication of ideas together in his understanding 2403 IV, VII | one of the constant simple ideas of the complex idea he calls 2404 IV, VII | he hath of his own simple ideas of black and white, which 2405 IV, VII | calls man, only out of the ideas of body in general, and 2406 IV, VII | have clear and distinct ideas. So that, if rightly considered, 2407 IV, VII | may say, That where our ideas are determined in our minds, 2408 IV, VII | two [determined] distinct ideas are not one and the same, 2409 IV, VII | use dangerous, where our ideas are not determined. And 2410 IV, VII | where we have determined ideas, so they are, as I have 2411 IV, VII | dangerous use where our ideas are not determined; and 2412 IV, VII | not annexed to determined ideas, but such as are of a loose 2413 IV, VII | terms stand for undetermined ideas) do by their authority confirm 2414 IV, VIII | must find out intermediate ideas, and then lay them in such 2415 IV, VIII | stands for? All the simple ideas that go to the complex one 2416 IV, VIII | expresses several of its simple ideas, than to enumerate them 2417 IV, VIII | affirm any one of the simple ideas of a complex one of the 2418 IV, VIII | being one of the simple ideas that goes to the making 2419 IV, VIII | moving, are three of those ideas that I always comprehend 2420 IV, VIII | voice, are some of those ideas which I always comprehend 2421 IV, VIII | one or more of the simple ideas, that altogether make up 2422 IV, VIII | homo all these distinct ideas united in one subject, corporietas, 2423 IV, VIII | signification all these ideas. Much like a romance knight, 2424 IV, VIII | palfrey signified these ideas:—body of a certain figure, 2425 IV, VIII | using them for signs of ideas which he has in his mind. 2426 IV, VIII | combinations there be of simple ideas existing together in substances, 2427 IV, VIII | makes them stand for his own ideas), and makes their significations 2428 IV, IX | which being only abstract ideas, and thereby removed in 2429 IV, IX | accidental union or separation of ideas in things existing, which, 2430 IV, X | God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has 2431 IV, XI | the actual receiving of ideas from without that gives 2432 IV, XI | certainty of our senses, and the ideas we receive by them, that 2433 IV, XI | about the clear abstract ideas of our own minds; yet it 2434 IV, XI | because we cannot have ideas of sensation but by the 2435 IV, XI | sense, never can have the ideas belonging to that sense 2436 IV, XI | cannot avoid the having those ideas produced in my mind. For 2437 IV, XI | pleasure recall to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which 2438 IV, XI | sun, I cannot avoid the ideas which the light or sun then 2439 IV, XI | manifest difference between the ideas laid up in my memory, (over 2440 IV, XI | resist, that produces those ideas in my mind, whether I will 2441 IV, XI | distinct, that few of his ideas are more distinguishable 2442 IV, XI | not the returning of those ideas without the external objects. 2443 IV, XI | this, that many of those ideas are produced in us with 2444 IV, XI | were there nothing more but ideas floating in our minds, and 2445 IV, XI | they are; that is, have the ideas of such letters as I have 2446 IV, XI | such collections of simple ideas as we have observed by our 2447 IV, XI | such a collection of simple ideas as is wont to be called 2448 IV, XI | memories still retain the ideas; and of this we are past 2449 IV, XI | and rests on faith. What ideas we have of spirits, and 2450 IV, XI | But though we have those ideas in our minds, and know we 2451 IV, XI | them there, the having the ideas of spirits does not make 2452 IV, XI | in our minds, than by the ideas any one has of fairies or 2453 IV, XI | that things answering those ideas do really exist.~And therefore 2454 IV, XI | disagreement of our abstract ideas, and their dependence on 2455 IV, XI | discovered in those abstract ideas.~14. And all general propositions 2456 IV, XI | be true concern abstract ideas. In the former case, our 2457 IV, XI | existence of things, producing ideas in our minds by our senses: 2458 IV, XI | is the consequence of the ideas (be they what they will) 2459 IV, XI | having got the abstract ideas, joined or separated them 2460 IV, XI | thereby furnished with such ideas as we have, we must conclude, 2461 IV, XI | the consideration of his ideas, know the truth of certain 2462 IV, XI | will perceive in his own ideas. Such propositions are therefore 2463 IV, XI | once made about abstract ideas, so as to be true, they 2464 IV, XI | by a mind having those ideas, always actually be true. 2465 IV, XI | perpetually for the same ideas, and the same ideas having 2466 IV, XI | same ideas, and the same ideas having immutably the same 2467 IV, XI | concerning any abstract ideas that are once true must 2468 IV, XII | comparing clear and distinct ideas. But if any one will consider, 2469 IV, XII | clear, distinct, complete ideas their thoughts were employed 2470 IV, XII | more general and abstract ideas, which are the workmanship 2471 IV, XII | compare clear, complete ideas, under steady names. But 2472 IV, XII | agreement or disagreement of our ideas, the way to improve our 2473 IV, XII | distinct, and complete ideas, as far as they are to be 2474 IV, XII | considering those perfect ideas, and by comparing them one 2475 IV, XII | considering our abstract ideas. We must, therefore, if 2476 IV, XII | inquiry to the nature of the ideas we examine, and the truth 2477 IV, XII | and relations of abstract ideas. A sagacious and methodical 2478 IV, XII | order those intermediate ideas that demonstratively show 2479 IV, XII | this, in respect of other ideas, as well as those of magnitude, 2480 IV, XII | I may say, that if other ideas that are the real as well 2481 IV, XII | as mathematics. For the ideas that ethics are conversant 2482 IV, XII | contemplation of abstract ideas, but only by experience. 2483 IV, XII | substances, our want of ideas that are suitable to such 2484 IV, XII | other, (where our abstract ideas are real as well as nominal 2485 IV, XII | essences,) by contemplating our ideas, and considering their relations 2486 IV, XII | contemplation of their abstract ideas will carry us but a very 2487 IV, XII | contrary course: the want of ideas of their real essences sends 2488 IV, XII | Our reasonings from these ideas will carry us but a little 2489 IV, XII | further than the simple ideas of our nominal essence will 2490 IV, XII | to consist of more simple ideas than before; yet still, 2491 IV, XII | some or all of the simple ideas that make up my nominal 2492 IV, XII | by contemplation of our ideas we cannot discover; there 2493 IV, XII | 14. Clear and distinct ideas with settled names, and 2494 IV, XII | finding of those intermediate ideas which show their agreement 2495 IV, XII | in our minds determined ideas of those things whereof 2496 IV, XII | And if they be specific ideas of substances, we should 2497 IV, XII | together as many simple ideas as, being constantly observed 2498 IV, XII | and each of those simple ideas which are the ingredients 2499 IV, XII | knowledge cannot exceed our ideas; as far as they are either 2500 IV, XII | finding out those intermediate ideas, which may show us the agreement