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501 II, XXI | gives us but a very obscure idea of an active power of moving 502 II, XXI | it is but a very obscure idea of power which reaches not 503 II, XXI | same blow is an action. The idea of the beginning of motion 504 II, XXI | a very imperfect obscure idea of active power; since they 505 II, XXI | since they afford us not any idea in themselves of the power 506 II, XXI | one thinks he has a clear idea of power, it serves as well 507 II, XXI | mind doth not receive its idea of active power clearer 508 II, XXI | the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider 509 II, XXI | actions that we have any idea of reducing themselves, 510 II, XXI | be voluntary. So that the idea of liberty is, the idea 511 II, XXI | idea of liberty is, the idea of a power in any agent 512 II, XXI | and rest come under our idea of necessary, and are so 513 II, XXI | So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or 514 II, XXI | shall choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far 515 II, XXI | his contemplation from one idea to another is many times 516 II, XXI | at liberty to lay by the idea of pain, and divert himself 517 II, XXI | mind and made present. The idea of it indeed may be in the 518 II, XXI | the will. Till then, the idea in the mind of whatever 519 II, XXI | power to produce in us the idea of yellow, and snow or milk, 520 II, XXI | yellow, and snow or milk, the idea of white, which we can only 521 II, XXII | being able to make any one idea, experience shows us. But 522 II, XXII | man who first framed the idea of hypocrisy, might have 523 II, XXII | or else have framed that idea in his mind without having 524 II, XXII | man may come to have the idea of sacrilege or murder, 525 II, XXII | of mixed modes into one idea. Every mixed mode consisting 526 II, XXII | multitude comes to make but one idea; since that combination 527 II, XXII | united into one complex idea, as the killing a man’s 528 II, XXII | for a particular complex idea, nor a distinct species 529 II, XXII | should inquire where the idea of a triumph or apotheosis 530 II, XXII | wrestle or fence, we get the idea of wrestling or fencing. ( 531 II, XXII | printing or etching, had an idea of it in his mind before 532 II, XXII | represent to another any complex idea we would have him conceive; 533 II, XXII | analysis of that complex idea we call a lie: what I have 534 II, XXII | every particular simple idea that goes to this complex 535 II, XXII | the same thing, is that idea we name habit; when it is 536 II, XXII | whereby the new substance or idea is produced is called, in 537 II, XXII | subject wherein any simple idea is changed or produced, 538 II, XXII | myself to have no notion nor idea of; and so it is quite remote 539 II, XXII | annihilation, contain in them no idea of the action or manner 540 II, XXII | without containing any idea of the action whereby it 541 II, XXIII | and consider as one simple idea, which indeed is a complication 542 II, XXIII | substance.~2. Our obscure idea of substance in general. 543 II, XXIII | will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a 544 II, XXIII | what they have no distinct idea of at all, and so are perfectly 545 II, XXIII | it, and in the dark. The idea then we have, to which we 546 II, XXIII | An obscure and relative idea of substance in general 547 II, XXIII | one has any other clear idea, further than of certain 548 II, XXIII | that make the true complex idea of those substances, which 549 II, XXIII | may talk of, has no other idea of those substances, than 550 II, XXIII | have always the confused idea of something to which they 551 II, XXIII | 4. No clear or distinct idea of substance in general. 552 II, XXIII | stone, &c., though the idea we have of either of them 553 II, XXIII | have no clear or distinct idea of that thing we suppose 554 II, XXIII | support.~5. As clear an idea of spiritual substance as 555 II, XXIII | evident that, having no other idea or notion of matter, but 556 II, XXIII | is plain then, that the idea of corporeal substance in 557 II, XXIII | have no clear and distinct idea of the substance of matter, 558 II, XXIII | have no clear and distinct idea of the substance of a spirit.~ 559 II, XXIII | find, that he has no other idea of any substance, v.g. let 560 II, XXIII | united together. Thus, the idea of the sun,—what is it but 561 II, XXIII | For he has the perfectest idea of any of the particular 562 II, XXIII | them a part of the complex idea of it. For all those powers 563 II, XXIII | considerable part of the complex idea of the several sorts of 564 II, XXIII | will examine his complex idea of gold, will find several 565 II, XXIII | necessary to make up our complex idea of gold, as its colour and 566 II, XXIII | in gold to produce that idea in us by our eyes, when 567 II, XXIII | as to make him have the idea of heat; and so on wax, 568 II, XXIII | to produce in a man the idea of white.~11. The now secondary 569 II, XXIII | and compounded. Thus the idea which an Englishman signifies 570 II, XXIII | able to frame the complex idea of an immaterial spirit. 571 II, XXIII | which we have no distinct idea, we have the idea of an 572 II, XXIII | distinct idea, we have the idea of an immaterial spirit; 573 II, XXIII | likewise we have no positive idea, we have the idea of matter. 574 II, XXIII | positive idea, we have the idea of matter. The one is as 575 II, XXIII | as clear and distinct an idea as the other: the idea of 576 II, XXIII | an idea as the other: the idea of thinking, and moving 577 II, XXIII | and being moved. For our idea of substance is equally 578 II, XXIII | immaterial thinking being.~16. No idea of abstract substance either 579 II, XXIII | or spirit. By the complex idea of extended, figured, coloured, 580 II, XXIII | we are as far from the idea of the substance of body, 581 II, XXIII | spirit; for having no other idea of motion, but change of 582 II, XXIII | allowed to afford us a clear idea enough of its motion, its 583 II, XXIII | leaving it, and yet to have no idea of its motion, seems to 584 II, XXIII | spirit.~22. Our complex idea of an immaterial spirit 585 II, XXIII | immaterial spirit and our complex idea of body compared. Let us 586 II, XXIII | compare, then, our complex idea of an immaterial spirit 587 II, XXIII | spirit with our complex idea of body, and see whether 588 II, XXIII | and in which most. Our idea of body, as I think, is 589 II, XXIII | motion by impulse: and our idea of soul, as an immaterial 590 II, XXIII | that perhaps, how clear an idea soever we think we have 591 II, XXIII | for him to have a clear idea how the soul thinks as how 592 II, XXIII | or manner of it, than the idea of thinking.~28. Communication 593 II, XXIII | unintelligible. Another idea we have of body is, the 594 II, XXIII | from body or spirit, the idea which belongs to spirit 595 II, XXIII | will never afford us the idea of a power in the one to 596 II, XXIII | equally unknown to us; and the idea of thinking in spirit, as 597 II, XXIII | of those ideas.~30. Our idea of spirit and our idea of 598 II, XXIII | Our idea of spirit and our idea of body compared. So that, 599 II, XXIII | So that, in short, the idea we have of spirit, compared 600 II, XXIII | spirit, compared with the idea we have of body, stands 601 II, XXIII | himself.~33. Our complex idea of God. For if we examine 602 II, XXIII | God. For if we examine the idea we have of the incomprehensible 603 II, XXIII | when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can 604 II, XXIII | every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting 605 II, XXIII | together, make our complex idea of God. For that the mind 606 II, XXIII | already shown.~34. Our complex idea of God as infinite. If I 607 II, XXIII | imperfectly, I can frame an idea of knowing twice as many; 608 II, XXIII | number; and thus enlarge my idea of knowledge, by extending 609 II, XXIII | them: and thus frame the idea of infinite or boundless 610 II, XXIII | or end, and so frame the idea of an eternal being. The 611 II, XXIII | infinite, we frame the best idea of him our minds are capable 612 II, XXIII | c., makes that complex idea, whereby we represent to 613 II, XXIII | may say we have no other idea of him, but a complex one 614 II, XXIII | reflection, go to make up the idea or notion we have of God.~ 615 II, XXIII | observed, that there is no idea we attribute to God, bating 616 II, XXIII | also a part of our complex idea of other spirits. Because, 617 II, XXIII | we cannot yet have any idea of the manner wherein they 618 II, XXIII | of it at all, we have no idea how spirits, which use not 619 II, XXIII | we have no clear distinct idea at all.~Secondly, That all 620 II, XXIII | ideas that make our complex idea of gold are yellowness, 621 II, XXIV | Substances ~1. A collective idea is one idea. Besides these 622 II, XXIV | A collective idea is one idea. Besides these complex ideas 623 II, XXIV | together, as united into one idea, and which so joined are 624 II, XXIV | looked on as one; v.g. the idea of such a collection of 625 II, XXIV | substances, is as much one idea as the idea of a man: and 626 II, XXIV | as much one idea as the idea of a man: and the great 627 II, XXIV | and the great collective idea of all bodies whatsoever, 628 II, XXIV | name world, is as much one idea as the idea of any the least 629 II, XXIV | as much one idea as the idea of any the least particle 630 II, XXIV | sufficing to the unity of any idea, that it be considered as 631 II, XXIV | collective mode, or complex idea, of any number, as a score, 632 II, XXIV | represents to his own mind by one idea, in one view; and so under 633 II, XXIV | thousand men should make one idea, than how a man should make 634 II, XXIV | how a man should make one idea; it being as easy to the 635 II, XXIV | mind to unite into one the idea of a great number of men, 636 II, XXIV | composition, bring into one idea; as is visible in that signified 637 II, XXV | object: it can carry an idea as it were beyond itself, 638 II, XXV | takes nothing into that idea but what really exists in 639 II, XXV | my mind but the complex idea of the species, man. So 640 II, XXV | consideration. And since any idea, whether simple or complex, 641 II, XXV | sounds must signify some idea, which is either in the 642 II, XXV | producing in us the complex idea of one thing, which idea 643 II, XXV | idea of one thing, which idea is in our minds, as one 644 II, XXV | positive or absolute thing, or idea. Thus a triangle, though 645 II, XXV | another be relative, yet the idea of the whole is a positive 646 II, XXV | whole is a positive absolute idea. The same may be said of 647 II, XXV | one thing, whether simple idea, substance, mode, or relation, 648 II, XXV | is easier to have a clear idea, than of humanity; and I 649 II, XXV | one action, or one simple idea, is oftentimes sufficient 650 II, XXV | cannot but have a very clear idea of that relation. The ideas, 651 II, XXV | without having yet the perfect idea of a man. For significant 652 II, XXV | the knowing the precise idea the relative term stands 653 II, XXV | having a perfect and clear idea of the thing it is attributed 654 II, XXV | hatched, I have a clear idea of the relation of dam and 655 II, XXV | very obscure and imperfect idea of those birds themselves.~ 656 II, XXV | of cause and effect: the idea whereof, how derived from 657 II, XXVI | produces any simple or complex idea we denote by the general 658 II, XXVI | fluidity, which is a simple idea that was not in it before, 659 II, XXVI | heat we call the simple idea of heat, in relation to 660 II, XXVI | ashes; i.e., another complex idea, consisting of a collection 661 II, XXVI | different from that complex idea which we call wood; we consider 662 II, XXVI | producing any particular simple idea, or collection of simple 663 II, XXVI | other thing, either simple idea, substance, or mode, begin 664 II, XXVI | things. When any simple idea is produced, which was not 665 II, XXVI | sensible quality or simple idea is produced in either of 666 II, XXVI | in them. For to have the idea of cause and effect, it 667 II, XXVI | suffices to consider any simple idea or substance, as beginning 668 II, XXVI | duration, whereof we have the idea in our minds. Thus, having 669 II, XXVI | settled in our thoughts the idea of the ordinary duration 670 II, XXVI | this or that man, to the idea of that duration which we 671 II, XXVI | not up to the size of that idea which we have in our minds 672 II, XXVI | comparing his strength to the idea we have of the usual strength 673 II, XXVII | word man, applied to an idea out of which body and shape 674 II, XXVII | man or Heliogabalus.~7. Idea of identity suited to the 675 II, XXVII | of identity suited to the idea it is applied to. It is 676 II, XXVII | aright, we must consider what idea the word it is applied to 677 II, XXVII | ideas;—for such as is the idea belonging to that name, 678 II, XXVII | it past doubt, that the idea in our minds, of which the 679 II, XXVII | I presume it is not the idea of a thinking or rational 680 II, XXVII | being alone that makes the idea of a man in most people’ 681 II, XXVII | to it: and if that be the idea of a man, the same successive 682 II, XXVII | intelligent being can repeat the idea of any past action with 683 II, XXVII | whatever makes the specific idea to which the name is applied, 684 II, XXVII | name is applied, if that idea be steadily kept to, the 685 II, XXVII | have made to he our complex idea of man makes the same man. 686 II, XXVII | a rational spirit be the idea of a man, it is easy to 687 II, XXVII | man. But if to any one the idea of a man be but the vital 688 II, XXVII | composition whereof the complex idea is made, whenever existence 689 II, XXVIII| name is some one simple idea, which, being capable of 690 II, XXVIII| in respect of that simple idea, v.g. whiter, sweeter, equal, 691 II, XXVIII| excess of the same simple idea, in several subjects, may 692 II, XXVIII| us consider the complex idea we signify by the word murder: 693 II, XXVIII| frequently the positive idea of the action, and its moral 694 II, XXVIII| made between the positive idea of the action, and the reference 695 II, XXVIII| terminate in this simple idea, sweetness; which is equally 696 II, XXVIII| particular species, or collective idea, signified by the word man; 697 II, XXVIII| intelligent being; secondly, the idea of love; thirdly, the idea 698 II, XXVIII| idea of love; thirdly, the idea of readiness or disposition; 699 II, XXVIII| disposition; fourthly, the idea of action, which is any 700 II, XXVIII| or motion; fifthly, the idea of good, which signifies 701 II, XXVIII| For, if I have a clear idea of sweetness, light, or 702 II, XXVIII| men’s thoughts, and is an idea only in men’s minds, men 703 II, XXIX | confused, what. As a clear idea is that whereof the mind 704 II, XXIX | well-disposed organ, so a distinct idea is that wherein the mind 705 II, XXIX | all other; and a confused idea is such an one as is not 706 II, XXIX | different.~5. Objection. If no idea be confused, but such as 707 II, XXIX | find anywhere a confused idea. For, let any idea be as 708 II, XXIX | confused idea. For, let any idea be as it will, it can be 709 II, XXIX | being perceived to be so. No idea, therefore, can be undistinguishable 710 II, XXIX | different things. Now every idea a man has, being visibly 711 II, XXIX | First, when any complex idea (for it is complex ideas 712 II, XXIX | out. Thus, he that has an idea made up of barely the simple 713 II, XXIX | spots, has but a confused idea of a leopard; it not being 714 II, XXIX | spotted. So that such an idea, though it hath the peculiar 715 II, XXIX | particulars that make up any idea are in number enough, yet 716 II, XXIX | signification, change the idea they make this or that term 717 II, XXIX | leave out, or put into his idea of church, or idolatry, 718 II, XXIX | said to have a confused idea of idolatry or the church: 719 II, XXIX | viz. because a mutable idea (if we will allow it to 720 II, XXIX | will allow it to be one idea) cannot belong to one name 721 II, XXIX | hard to say what a confused idea is. And therefore when a 722 II, XXIX | all others, the complex idea he annexes to that name 723 II, XXIX | therefore, we suspect any idea to be confused, we must 724 II, XXIX | will always be found an idea belonging to another name, 725 II, XXIX | difference from that other idea which the different names 726 II, XXIX | and unite into one complex idea, as precisely as is possible, 727 II, XXIX | for what precise complex idea such a name stands in another 728 II, XXIX | that part of his complex idea which depends upon the number 729 II, XXIX | think he has a distinct idea of a chiliaedron; though 730 II, XXIX | plain he has no precise idea of its figure, so as to 731 II, XXIX | thinks he has a distinct idea of the figure of a chiliaedron, 732 II, XXIX | satisfied in that part of the idea which we have clear; and 733 II, XXIX | a positive comprehensive idea of it, which is as much 734 II, XXIX | clearly contained in our idea. It is true that he that 735 II, XXIX | thinks so may have a clear idea of duration; he may also 736 II, XXIX | he may also have a clear idea of a very great length of 737 II, XXIX | he may also have a clear idea of the comparison of that 738 II, XXIX | for him to include in his idea of any duration, let it 739 II, XXIX | no end, that part of his idea, which is still beyond the 740 II, XXIX | have no clear nor distinct idea at all. For I ask any one, 741 II, XXIX | saw, he has any distinct idea (bating still the number, 742 II, XXIX | bodies in infinitum, our idea of their distinct bulks, 743 II, XXIX | lost in obscurity. For that idea which is to represent only 744 II, XXIX | amounts to any distinct idea of actual infinite parts. 745 II, XXIX | have, it is true, a clear idea of division, as often as 746 II, XXIX | we have no more a clear idea of infinite parts in matter, 747 II, XXIX | matter, than we have a clear idea of an infinite number, by 748 II, XXIX | more a clear and distinct idea of actually infinite parts, 749 II, XXIX | us a clear and distinct idea of an actually infinite 750 II, XXIX | imperfect, and confused idea; from or about which we 751 II, XXIX | we have no such distinct idea as we have of 4 or 100; 752 II, XXIX | no more a clear positive idea of it, when we say or conceive 753 II, XXIX | eternity; he that has an idea of but four years, has as 754 II, XXIX | much a positive complete idea of eternity, as he that 755 II, XXIX | them has any clear positive idea of it at all. For he that 756 II, XXIX | Thus it is also in our idea of extension, when we increase 757 II, XXIX | lose the clear distinct idea of that space: it becomes 758 II, XXX | make to itself no simple idea, more than what it has received.~ 759 II, XXX | it to pass that one man’s idea of gold, or justice, is 760 II, XXX | out of his, some simple idea which the other has not? 761 II, XXX | name of justice to that idea which common use calls liberality. 762 II, XXX | mixed mode, or a complex idea of an action which may exist. 763 II, XXX | be; and so is as real an idea as the other. Though the 764 II, XXX | name, be a right or wrong idea; but the other, whilst it 765 II, XXXI | on any of our senses, the idea so produced is a real idea, ( 766 II, XXXI | idea so produced is a real idea, (and not a fiction of the 767 II, XXXI | power to produce any simple idea); and cannot but be adequate, 768 II, XXXI | power of producing in us the idea of pain, yet it is denominated 769 II, XXXI | wanting. Thus, by having the idea of a figure with three sides 770 II, XXXI | angles, I have a complete idea, wherein I require nothing 771 II, XXXI | the perfection of this its idea is plain, in that it does 772 II, XXXI | more complete or perfect idea of that thing it signifies 773 II, XXXI | itself has, in that complex idea of three sides and three 774 II, XXXI | at first put together the idea of danger perceived, absence 775 II, XXXI | in his mind that complex idea made up of that combination: 776 II, XXXI | also but be an adequate idea: and laying this up in his 777 II, XXXI | they agreed to it. This idea, thus made and laid up for 778 II, XXXI | word courage, may make an idea, to which he gives the name 779 II, XXXI | if he designs that his idea in thinking should be conformable 780 II, XXXI | conformable to the other’s idea, as the name he uses in 781 II, XXXI | whom he learned it, his idea may be very wrong and inadequate: 782 II, XXXI | making the other man’s idea the pattern of his idea 783 II, XXXI | idea the pattern of his idea in thinking, as the other 784 II, XXXI | of his in speaking, his idea is so far defective and 785 II, XXXI | sign of the other man’s idea, (to which, in its proper 786 II, XXXI | in which respect only any idea of modes can be wrong, imperfect, 787 II, XXXI | together. But such a complex idea cannot be the real essence 788 II, XXXI | would depend on that complex idea, and be deducible from it, 789 II, XXXI | deducible from the complex idea of three lines including 790 II, XXXI | them do depend. The common idea men have of iron is, a body 791 II, XXXI | connexion with that complex idea, or any part of it: and 792 II, XXXI | perception at all can I have any idea of its essence: which is 793 II, XXXI | further from having any idea of its real essence than 794 II, XXXI | was before. For I have an idea of figure, size, and situation 795 II, XXXI | that I confess I have no idea at all, but only of the 796 II, XXXI | which is far enough from an idea of its real essence or constitution. 797 II, XXXI | essence; and consequently the idea to which that name is given 798 II, XXXI | various, that no man’s complex idea contains them all. That 799 II, XXXI | rarely put into their complex idea of any substance all the 800 II, XXXI | in, and make the specific idea, more than others that are 801 II, XXXI | those never went into his idea of that species of body; 802 II, XXXI | it, to make the complex idea of that species. Which both 803 II, XXXI | and to produce in us that idea we call yellow; and the 804 II, XXXI | usually make the complex idea in men’s minds of that sort 805 II, XXXI | contained in that complex idea. Some who have examined 806 II, XXXI | ideas go to the complex idea of gold as any one man yet 807 II, XXXI | ellipsis, if we had no other idea of it, but some few of its 808 II, XXXI | Whereas, having in our plain idea the whole essence of that 809 II, XXXI | power to produce any such idea in itself: and being meant 810 II, XXXI | such a power, that simple idea is real and adequate; the 811 II, XXXI | would produce a different idea.~13. Ideas of substances 812 II, XXXI | have an adequate complex idea of the powers of any substance 813 II, XXXI | is that sort of complex idea of substances we have. And, 814 II, XXXI | actually had, in our complex idea, an exact collection of 815 II, XXXI | not yet thereby have an idea of the essence of that thing. 816 II, XXXI | be. Besides, a man has no idea of substance in general, 817 II, XXXII | not taken notice of.~3. No idea, as an appearance in the 818 II, XXXII | none of them are false; the idea of a centaur having no more 819 II, XXXII | when the mind supposes any idea it has conformable to that 820 II, XXXII | when the mind supposes any idea it has in itself to be conformable 821 II, XXXII | that the mind having got an idea which it thinks it may have 822 II, XXXII | names. But this abstract idea, being something in the 823 II, XXXII | applies the name red to the idea green, or the name sweet 824 II, XXXII | or the name sweet to the idea bitter: mush less are men 825 II, XXXII | ours may be false; and the idea in our minds, which we express 826 II, XXXII | thought to have a false idea of justice, or gratitude, 827 II, XXXII | the nature of our simple idea, whether we think that the 828 II, XXXII | whether we think that the idea of blue be in the violet 829 II, XXXII | operation producing the same idea of blue in us, it serves 830 II, XXXII | else that very colour, the idea whereof (which is in us) 831 II, XXXII | that causes in us that idea: since the name, blue, notes 832 II, XXXII | discern.~15. Though one man’s idea of blue should be different 833 II, XXXII | the same time; v.g. if the idea that a violet produced in 834 II, XXXII | producing constantly the idea that he called blue, and 835 II, XXXII | producing constantly the idea which he as constantly called 836 II, XXXII | does. Thus, when I have the idea of such an action of a man 837 II, XXXII | requires, I have no false idea; but such an one as represents 838 II, XXXII | it may be called a false idea, if thereby it be supposed 839 II, XXXII | supposed to agree with that idea to which, in propriety of 840 II, XXXII | joined in the same complex idea the power of barking like 841 II, XXXII | therefore, may be called a false idea of a horse. (2) Ideas of 842 II, XXXII | negation, any other simple idea which is constantly joined 843 II, XXXII | to have a false complex idea, as well as when he joins 844 II, XXXII | those other simple ones the idea of perfect absolute fixedness. 845 II, XXXII | either way, the complex idea of gold being made up of 846 II, XXXII | out of this his complex idea that of fixedness quite, 847 II, XXXII | inadequate and imperfect idea, rather than a false one; 848 II, XXXII | in all cases where any idea is called true or false, 849 II, XXXII | neither true nor false. Any idea, then, which we have in 850 II, XXXII | existence of things, or to any idea in the minds of other men, 851 II, XXXII | agreeable to another man’s idea, without being so. First, 852 II, XXXII | when the mind having any idea, it judges and concludes 853 II, XXXII | When it having a complex idea made up of such a collection 854 II, XXXII | 3) When in its complex idea it has united a certain 855 II, XXXII | to be a perfect complete idea of a sort of things which 856 II, XXXII | fusible, it takes that complex idea to be the complete idea 857 II, XXXII | idea to be the complete idea of gold, when yet its peculiar 858 II, XXXII | judge that this complex idea contains in it the real 859 II, XXXII | body, of which the complex idea of that kind of things is 860 II, XXXII | without him, but by the idea he has of it in his mind, ( 861 II, XXXII | of it in his mind, (which idea he has a power to call by 862 II, XXXII | he may indeed make an idea neither answering the reason 863 II, XXXII | things, nor agreeing to the idea commonly signified by other 864 II, XXXII | cannot make a wrong or false idea of a thing which is no otherwise 865 II, XXXII | known to him but by the idea he has of it: v.g. when 866 II, XXXII | it: v.g. when I frame an idea of the legs, arms, and body 867 II, XXXII | neck, I do not make a false idea of anything; because it 868 II, XXXII | without me, or to be the same idea that others call by the 869 II, XXXII | comes to be termed a false idea; though indeed the falsehood 870 II, XXXII | falsehood lies not in the idea, but in that tacit mental 871 II, XXXII | if, having framed such an idea in my mind without thinking 872 II, XXXII | in my judgment; nor the idea any way false.~26. More 873 II, XXXIII| as if they were but one idea. I say most of the antipathies, 874 II, XXXIII| he cannot bear the very idea of it; other ideas of dislike, 875 II, XXXIII| with another, yet when the idea of the place occurs to his 876 II, XXXIII| enjoyment and its loss, from the idea of the child returning to 877 II, XXXIII| brought back with it the idea of that agony which he suffered 878 II, XXXIII| occasion got the ascendant, the idea of authority and distance 879 II, XXXIII| room where he learnt. The idea of this remarkable piece 880 II, XXXIII| figure and shape to the idea of God, and what absurdities 881 II, XXXIII| about the Deity? Let the idea of infallibility be inseparably 882 II, XXXIII| than if they were but one idea, and they operate as if 883 III, I | use of, not to signify any idea, but the want or absence 884 III, II | arbitrarily the mark of such an idea. The use, then, of words, 885 III, II | word gold only to his own idea of that colour, and nothing 886 III, II | it, stands for a complex idea of a shining yellow and 887 III, II | occasion to express the idea which they have applied 888 III, II | apply it only to his own idea; nor can he make it stand 889 III, II | a sign of such a complex idea as he has not.~4. Words 890 III, II | sounds they applied to one idea were such as by the hearer 891 III, II | to examine, whether the idea they, and those they discourse 892 III, II | which they suppose that the idea they make it a sign of is 893 III, II | between the sound and the idea, and a designation that 894 III, II | arbitrarily appoint what idea any sound should be a sign 895 III, II | man applies it to the same idea, he does not speak properly: 896 III, III | peculiar appropriation to that idea. But it is beyond the power 897 III, III | s mind who hears it, the idea I apply it to in mine, when 898 III, III | conformity to that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that 899 III, III | been used to, they frame an idea, which they find those many 900 III, III | general name, and a general idea. Wherein they make nothing 901 III, III | leave out of the complex idea they had of Peter and James, 902 III, III | by the general name and idea of man, they easily advance 903 III, III | things that differ from their idea of man, and cannot therefore 904 III, III | and uniting them into one idea, they have again another 905 III, III | another and more general idea; to which having given a 906 III, III | comprehensive extension: which new idea is made, not by any new 907 III, III | tell me, wherein does his idea of man differ from that 908 III, III | of Peter and Paul, or his idea of horse from that of Bucephalus, 909 III, III | making a new distinct complex idea, and giving the name animal 910 III, III | creatures. Leave out of the idea of animal, sense and spontaneous 911 III, III | and the remaining complex idea, made up of the remaining 912 III, III | term stands for such an idea, and is but a part of any 913 III, III | understand by words what idea the term defined stands 914 III, III | who desired to know what idea the word man stood for; 915 III, III | well understood, and the idea it stands for be at least 916 III, III | so that the meaning or idea it stands for may be certainly 917 III, III | being a sign of an abstract idea in the mind; to which idea, 918 III, III | idea in the mind; to which idea, as things existing are 919 III, III | and the conformity to the idea to which the name is annexed 920 III, III | conformity to the abstract idea the name man stands for, 921 III, III | follows, that the abstract idea for which the name stands, 922 III, III | Each distinct abstract idea is a distinct essence. Nor 923 III, III | not be, if the abstract idea or essence to which the 924 III, III | every distinct abstract idea is a distinct essence; and 925 III, III | from earth: that abstract idea which is the essence of 926 III, III | nothing but that abstract idea which the general, or sortal ( 927 III, III | it answers that abstract idea whereof that name is the 928 III, III | being not only the abstract idea to which the general name 929 III, III | so, having no particular idea of, having no name that 930 III, III | to that abstract complex idea to which that name is annexed. 931 III, III | exactly marked out), yet the idea annexed to that name would 932 III, III | as that of a man; and the idea of an unicorn as certain, 933 III, IV | mixed modes terminate in the idea that is in the mind, and 934 III, IV | when, by other words, the idea it is made the sign of, 935 III, IV | by no means represent an idea which has no composition 936 III, IV | signified, or have guessed what idea a Dutchman ordinarily had 937 III, IV | may serve to discover what idea the unknown stands for; 938 III, IV | Peripatetic definition of a simple idea; which, though not more 939 III, IV | of trial. For this simple idea, entering by the touch as 940 III, IV | no other way to get the idea of motion, but barely by 941 III, IV | understood would make the idea the word light stands for 942 III, IV | thing to be true, yet the idea of the cause of light, if 943 III, IV | would no more give us the idea of light itself, as it is 944 III, IV | perception in us, than the idea of the figure and motion 945 III, IV | steel would give us the idea of that pain which it is 946 III, IV | would thereby never have any idea of light, or anything approaching 947 III, IV | sensation in us, and the idea which is produced in us 948 III, IV | able to produce in us the idea it stands for. For, words 949 III, IV | and make him have the true idea of the relish of that celebrated 950 III, IV | this is not giving us that idea by a definition, but exciting 951 III, IV | For, to hope to produce an idea of light or colour by a 952 III, IV | proper inlet, the simple idea which any word stands for, 953 III, IV | object; and so producing that idea in him, for which he has 954 III, IV | name of any other simple idea will he have, who hopes 955 III, IV | senses having given him the idea of figure, but not of colours, 956 III, IV | term stands for a simple idea that a man has never yet 957 III, IV | When any term stands for an idea a man is acquainted with, 958 III, IV | another name of the same idea, which he has been accustomed 959 III, IV | is any name of any simple idea capable of a definition.~ 960 III, IV | long as he retains that idea; which when he has quite 961 III, IV | or less being put in, the idea may be varied, and so the 962 III, IV | species being but one simple idea, nothing can be left out 963 III, IV | some other thing in one idea common to them both; which, 964 III, IV | that can be left out of the idea of white and red to make 965 III, IV | left out of the complex idea of man, makes it agree with 966 III, IV | brute in the more general idea and name of animal. And 967 III, V | modes, as in the complex idea of substances, examine them 968 III, V | nature. To know whether his idea of adultery or incest be 969 III, V | collection into one complex idea, that makes the archetype 970 III, V | the archetype and specific idea, whether ever any such action 971 III, V | not in the making any new idea, but putting together those 972 III, V | and makes them into one idea; Thirdly, It ties them together 973 III, V | Evidently arbitrary, in that the idea is often before the existence. 974 III, V | connexion in nature has the idea of a man than the idea of 975 III, V | the idea of a man than the idea of a sheep with killing, 976 III, V | there in nature between the idea of the relation of a father 977 III, V | combined into one complex idea, and thereby made the essence 978 III, V | never combined into one idea, because they have no need 979 III, V | that combines them into one idea; yet they are always made 980 III, V | affairs. If they join to the idea of killing the idea of father 981 III, V | the idea of killing the idea of father or mother, and 982 III, V | treated, in reference to the idea of killing, that the one 983 III, V | make a distinct abstract idea with a name, and so a distinct 984 III, V | stands for the same precise idea which the word does that 985 III, V | agreed to that abstract idea, might be comprehended. 986 III, V | the unity of one complex idea, is that very word annexed 987 III, V | united into one complex idea, under one denomination. 988 III, V | having combined into one idea several loose ones; and 989 III, V | mind laid by that abstract idea, and ceased actually to 990 III, V | the parts of that complex idea have a settled and permanent 991 III, V | giving a name to that complex idea.~12. For the originals of 992 III, V | often into one abstract idea things that, in their nature, 993 III, V | but barely that complex idea the mind itself has formed; 994 III, V | was necessary to have the idea before one gave it the name: 995 III, V | where, making a new complex idea, one also, by giving it 996 III, VI | existing in the world, yet the idea of it being abstracted, 997 III, VI | fixed star would answer the idea the name sun stands for, 998 III, VI | substance is our abstract idea to which the name is annexed. 999 III, VI | nothing but that abstract idea to which the name is annexed; 1000 III, VI | everything contained in that idea is essential to that sort.