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  1 Pre, Int,  6   |          power of framing abstract ideas or notions of things. He
  2 Pre, Int,  6   |           are spent about abstract ideas. These are in a more especial
  3 Pre, Int,  7   |           frame to itself abstract ideas. For example, there is perceived
  4 Pre, Int,  7   |            does frame the abstract ideas of extension, colour, and
  5 Pre, Int,  9   |          frames to itself abstract ideas of qualities or modes, so
  6 Pre, Int,  9   |        separation, attain abstract ideas of the more compounded beings
  7 Pre, Int,  10  |       faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell: for
  8 Pre, Int,  10  |        representing to myself, the ideas of those particular things
  9 Pre, Int,  10  |         all other abstract general ideas whatsoever. To be plain,
 10 Pre, Int,  11  |            having abstract general ideas is what puts the widest
 11 Pre, Int,  11  |              The having of general ideas," saith he, "is that which
 12 Pre, Int,  11  |        general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason
 13 Pre, Int,  11  |     abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use
 14 Pre, Int,  11  |    distance. For, if they have any ideas at all, and are not bare
 15 Pre, Int,  11  |           it is only in particular ideas, just as they receive them
 16 Pre, Int,  11  |       brutes have abstract general ideas is, that we observe in them
 17 Pre, Int,  11  |         implies the having general ideas. From which it follows that
 18 Pre, Int,  11  |       abstract or generalize their ideas. That this is the sense
 19 Pre, Int,  11  |          made the signs of general ideas."  - Essay on Human Understanding,
 20 Pre, Int,  11  |          but of several particular ideas, any one of which it indifferently
 21 Pre, Int,  12  |               12. By observing how ideas become general we may the
 22 Pre, Int,  12  |       absolutely there are general ideas, but only that there are
 23 Pre, Int,  12  |           are any abstract general ideas; for, in the passages we
 24 Pre, Int,  12  |        there is mention of general ideas, it is always supposed that
 25 Pre, Int,  12  |           for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make
 26 Pre, Int,  13  |          of the nature of abstract ideas, and the uses they are thought
 27 Pre, Int,  13  |           is as follows: "Abstract ideas are not so obvious or easy
 28 Pre, Int,  13  |            shall find that general ideas are fictions and contrivances
 29 Pre, Int,  13  |         different and inconsistent ideas are put together. It is
 30 Pre, Int,  13  |   imperfect state has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste
 31 Pre, Int,  13  |         has reason to suspect such ideas are marks of our imperfection.
 32 Pre, Int,  13  |          most abstract and general ideas are not those that the mind
 33 Pre, Int,  14  |           difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the
 34 Pre, Int,  14  |          conversant about abstract ideas. From all which the natural
 35 Pre, Int,  14  |            as the forming abstract ideas was not necessary for communication,
 36 Pre, Int,  14  |       their minds abstract general ideas, and annexed them to every
 37 Pre, Int,  17  |           this of abstract general ideas.~
 38 Pre, Int,  18  |         ablest patrons of abstract ideas, who acknowledge that they
 39 Pre, Int,  18  |      certain abstract, determinate ideas that constitute the true
 40 Pre, Int,  18  |        mediation of these abstract ideas that a general name comes
 41 Pre, Int,  18  |         great number of particular ideas. All which doth evidently
 42 Pre, Int,  19  |           the doctrine of abstract ideas, it must be observed that
 43 Pre, Int,  19  |          but the communicating our ideas, and that every significant
 44 Pre, Int,  19  |         out particular conceivable ideas, it is straightway concluded
 45 Pre, Int,  19  |            determinate, particular ideas, or in truth anything at
 46 Pre, Int,  19  |  significant names which stand for ideas should, every time they
 47 Pre, Int,  19  |           in the understanding the ideas they are made to stand for -
 48 Pre, Int,  20  |      Besides, the communicating of ideas marked by words is not the
 49 Pre, Int,  20  |         certain words, without any ideas coming between. At first,
 50 Pre, Int,  20  |        words might have occasioned ideas that were fitting to produce
 51 Pre, Int,  20  |    produced by the intervention of ideas that are now quite omitted.
 52 Pre, Int,  20  |        designing them for marks of ideas in his own, which he would
 53 Pre, Int,  20  |            bring into our view the ideas of those individuals that
 54 Pre, Int,  21  |          impossibility of Abstract Ideas. We have considered what
 55 Pre, Int,  21  |            understanding, whatever ideas I consider, I shall endeavour
 56 Pre, Int,  22  |         and subtle net of abstract ideas which has so miserably perplexed
 57 Pre, Int,  22  |      confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do
 58 Pre, Int,  22  |         imagine that any of my own ideas are alike or unlike that
 59 Pre, Int,  22  | disagreements there are between my ideas, to see what ideas are included
 60 Pre, Int,  22  |      between my ideas, to see what ideas are included in any compound
 61 Pre, Int,  23  |          as that betwixt words and ideas. Which difficulty seems
 62 Pre, Int,  23  |            as men thought abstract ideas were annexed to their words,
 63 Pre, Int,  23  |          they should use words for ideas - it being found an impracticable
 64 Pre, Int,  23  |           contemplating their bare ideas, have yet failed to perform
 65 Pre, Int,  23  |        well, that we attend to the ideas signified, and draw off
 66 Pre, Int,  23  |            of words was to signify ideas, and that the immediate
 67 Pre, Int,  24  |           no other than particular ideas, will not puzzle himself
 68 Pre, Int,  24  |            do not always stand for ideas will spare himself the labour
 69 Pre, Int,  24  |          the labour of looking for ideas where there are none to
 70 Pre, Int,  24  |         obtain a clear view of the ideas he would consider, separating
 71 Pre, Int,  25  |         his own naked, undisguised ideas.~
 72 Text,   0,  1  |    knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the
 73 Text,   0,  1  |            of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory
 74 Text,   0,  1  |          ways. By sight I have the ideas of light and colours, with
 75 Text,   0,  1  |        apple; other collections of ideas constitute a stone, a tree,
 76 Text,   0,  2  |            that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge,
 77 Text,   0,  2  |           not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct
 78 Text,   0,  3  |        thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination,
 79 Text,   0,  3  |          the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the sense,
 80 Text,   0,  4  |           perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? and is it
 81 Text,   0,  5  |           the doctrine of abstract ideas. For can there be a nicer
 82 Text,   0,  5  |          many sensations, notions, ideas, or impressions on the sense?
 83 Text,   0,  7  |       smell, taste, etc., i.e. the ideas perceived by sense. Now,
 84 Text,   0,  7  |   substance or substratum of those ideas.~
 85 Text,   0,  8  |           But, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist
 86 Text,   0,  8  |            except only between our ideas. Again, I ask whether those
 87 Text,   0,  8  |      external things, of which our ideas are the pictures or representations,
 88 Text,   0,  8  |            they are, then they are ideas and we have gained our point;
 89 Text,   0,  9  |          tastes, and so forth. The ideas we have of these they acknowledge
 90 Text,   0,  9  |             but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities
 91 Text,   0,  9  |        figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind, and
 92 Text,   0,  11 |       strange doctrine of abstract ideas. And here I cannot but remark
 93 Text,   0,  12 |          particular combination of ideas arbitrarily put together
 94 Text,   0,  13 |             accompanying all other ideas into the mind. That I have
 95 Text,   0,  13 |        said to accompany all other ideas, and to be perceived by
 96 Text,   0,  14 |         since if the succession of ideas in the mind become swifter,
 97 Text,   0,  18 |         mind, corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies, yet how
 98 Text,   0,  18 |            only of our sensations, ideas, or those things that are
 99 Text,   0,  18 |     connexion betwixt them and our ideas? I say it is granted on
100 Text,   0,  18 |           be affected with all the ideas we have now, though there
101 Text,   0,  18 |    necessary for the producing our ideas; since it is granted they
102 Text,   0,  19 |           bodies that excite their ideas in our minds. But neither
103 Text,   0,  19 |         the nearer knowing how our ideas are produced; since they
104 Text,   0,  19 |          evident the production of ideas or sensations in our minds
105 Text,   0,  20 |        same train of sensations or ideas that you are, imprinted
106 Text,   0,  20 |     substances, represented by his ideas, and exciting them in his
107 Text,   0,  23 |       framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and
108 Text,   0,  23 |            of imagining or forming ideas in your mind: but it does
109 Text,   0,  23 |         only contemplating our own ideas. But the mind taking no
110 Text,   0,  25 |                        25. All our ideas, sensations, notions, or
111 Text,   0,  25 |            bare observation of our ideas. For, since they and every
112 Text,   0,  25 |        whoever shall attend to his ideas, whether of sense or reflexion,
113 Text,   0,  26 |            continual succession of ideas, some are anew excited,
114 Text,   0,  26 |      therefore some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend, and
115 Text,   0,  26 |          or idea or combination of ideas, is clear from the preceding
116 Text,   0,  26 |        therefore that the cause of ideas is an incorporeal active
117 Text,   0,  27 |            being - as it perceives ideas it is called the understanding,
118 Text,   0,  27 |            soul or spirit; for all ideas whatever, being passive
119 Text,   0,  27 |            of motion and change of ideas is absolutely impossible.
120 Text,   0,  27 |          being, and whether he has ideas of two principal powers,
121 Text,   0,  27 |            not stand for different ideas, or, in truth, for any idea
122 Text,   0,  27 |       which is very different from ideas, and which, being an agent,
123 Text,   0,  28 |            28. I find I can excite ideas in my mind at pleasure,
124 Text,   0,  28 |        This making and unmaking of ideas doth very properly denominate
125 Text,   0,  28 |   unthinking agents or of exciting ideas exclusive of volition, we
126 Text,   0,  29 |           own thoughts, I find the ideas actually perceived by Sense
127 Text,   0,  29 |      hearing and other senses; the ideas imprinted on them are not
128 Text,   0,  30 |                            30. The ideas of Sense are more strong,
129 Text,   0,  30 |        depend on excites in us the ideas of sense, are called the
130 Text,   0,  30 |      teaches us that such and such ideas are attended with such and
131 Text,   0,  30 |           with such and such other ideas, in the ordinary course
132 Text,   0,  31 |    necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation
133 Text,   0,  32 |           when we perceive certain ideas of Sense constantly followed
134 Text,   0,  32 |       constantly followed by other ideas and we know this is not
135 Text,   0,  32 |            power and agency to the ideas themselves, and make one
136 Text,   0,  33 |                            33. The ideas imprinted on the Senses
137 Text,   0,  33 |           are more properly termed ideas, or images of things, which
138 Text,   0,  33 |         distinct, are nevertheless ideas, that is, they exist in
139 Text,   0,  33 |   perceived by it, as truly as the ideas of its own framing. The
140 Text,   0,  33 |            of its own framing. The ideas of Sense are allowed to
141 Text,   0,  33 |         spirit; yet still they are ideas, and certainly no idea,
142 Text,   0,  34 |     thereof a chimerical scheme of ideas takes place. All things
143 Text,   0,  34 |          opposition to chimeras or ideas of our own framing; but
144 Text,   0,  34 |          that sense they are alike ideas.~
145 Text,   0,  36 |        souls, which will or excite ideas in themselves at pleasure;
146 Text,   0,  38 |            to say we eat and drink ideas, and are clothed with ideas.
147 Text,   0,  38 |        ideas, and are clothed with ideas. I acknowledge it does so -
148 Text,   0,  38 |           is meant by calling them ideas; which word if it was as
149 Text,   0,  38 |          called things rather than ideas.~
150 Text,   0,  39 |         thinking things as well as ideas. Since therefore the objects
151 Text,   0,  43 |        thoughts by certain visible ideas and sensations attending
152 Text,   0,  43 |           any language suggest the ideas they are made to stand for;
153 Text,   0,  44 |                            44. The ideas of sight and touch make
154 Text,   0,  44 |           that in strict truth the ideas of sight, when we apprehend
155 Text,   0,  44 |          but only admonish us what ideas of touch will be imprinted
156 Text,   0,  44 |    concerning Vision, that visible ideas are the Language whereby
157 Text,   0,  44 |           informs us what tangible ideas he is about to imprint upon
158 Text,   0,  45 |            possible either for his ideas or their archetypes to exist
159 Text,   0,  48 |       sense to be nothing else but ideas which cannot exist unperceived;
160 Text,   0,  50 |        affected with such and such ideas. But how Matter should operate
161 Text,   0,  50 |            truth no more than mere ideas, and, therefore, cannot
162 Text,   0,  56 |     knowing they perceived several ideas, whereof they themselves
163 Text,   0,  56 |           made them maintain those ideas, or objects of perception
164 Text,   0,  56 |            perceived, of which our ideas are only images or resemblances,
165 Text,   0,  57 |            they should suppose the ideas of sense to be excited in
166 Text,   0,  57 |     supposing things like unto our ideas existing without, as in
167 Text,   0,  57 |         Spirit which excites those ideas in our minds, is not marked
168 Text,   0,  57 |      finite collection of sensible ideas, as human agents are by
169 Text,   0,  59 |            train and succession of ideas in our minds, often make,
170 Text,   0,  59 |         predictions concerning the ideas we shall be affected with
171 Text,   0,  60 |         put together; which, being ideas, have nothing powerful or
172 Text,   0,  64 |            to no more than this: - ideas are not anyhow and at random
173 Text,   0,  64 |         behold so great variety of ideas so artfully laid together,
174 Text,   0,  65 |       first, that the connexion of ideas does not imply the relation
175 Text,   0,  65 |           Secondly, the reason why ideas are formed into machines,
176 Text,   0,  65 |         words. That a few original ideas may be made to signify a
177 Text,   0,  65 |         the exciting such and such ideas; which in effect is all
178 Text,   0,  67 |        idea of matter the positive ideas of extension, figure, solidity
179 Text,   0,  67 |       which is the occasion of our ideas, or at the presence whereof
180 Text,   0,  67 |           God is pleased to excite ideas in us: it doth not appear
181 Text,   0,  68 |           at the presence of which ideas are excited in us by the
182 Text,   0,  70 |           the occasion of exciting ideas in our minds. For, say you,
183 Text,   0,  70 |       Matter, corresponding to our ideas, which, though they do not
184 Text,   0,  70 |           remind Him when and what ideas to imprint on our minds;
185 Text,   0,  71 |      whether there are not certain ideas of I know not what sort,
186 Text,   0,  72 |        occasion to God of exciting ideas in us; and what this amounts
187 Text,   0,  74 |          perceive, amongst all the ideas, sensations, notions which
188 Text,   0,  74 |           inert occasion to excite ideas in our minds?~
189 Text,   0,  75 |          there are certain unknown Ideas in the mind of God; for
190 Text,   0,  76 |           therefore there are such Ideas in the mind of God, and
191 Text,   0,  78 |           only furnish us with new ideas or sensations; and then
192 Text,   0,  78 |     nothing else but sensations or ideas, which exist only in a mind
193 Text,   0,  78 |            is true not only of the ideas we are acquainted with at
194 Text,   0,  78 |           likewise of all possible ideas whatsoever.~
195 Text,   0,  79 |          substance, or occasion of ideas; though indeed to go about
196 Text,   0,  79 |       which is the occasion of our ideas. And we shall understand
197 Text,   0,  81 |           framing abstract general ideas do talk as if they had such
198 Text,   0,  81 |         inlets of perception, what ideas the inexhaustible power
199 Text,   0,  81 |         know, innumerable sorts of ideas or sensations, as different
200 Text,   0,  81 |     endless variety of spirits and ideas that may possibly exist,
201 Text,   0,  82 |           something more than mere ideas; there being in Holy Writ
202 Text,   0,  82 |      difference betwixt things and ideas, realities and chimeras,
203 Text,   0,  84 |         was there only a change of ideas in the minds of the spectators?
204 Text,   0,  86 |     reduced to two heads - that of ideas and that of spirits. Of
205 Text,   0,  86 |            order.~ And first as to ideas or unthinking things. Our
206 Text,   0,  87 |            remaining the same, our ideas vary, and which of them,
207 Text,   0,  87 |      difference between things and ideas, and that the former have
208 Text,   0,  89 |         the name. viz. spirits and ideas. The former are active,
209 Text,   0,  89 |           strict sense we have not ideas. In like manner, we know
210 Text,   0,  89 |        relations between things or ideas - which relations are distinct
211 Text,   0,  89 |    relations are distinct from the ideas or things related, inasmuch
212 Text,   0,  89 |        former. To me it seems that ideas, spirits, and relations
213 Text,   0,  90 |                                90. Ideas imprinted on the senses
214 Text,   0,  91 |          wherein they suppose only ideas of the corporeal substances
215 Text,   0,  94 |         down and worship their own ideas, but rather address their
216 Text,   0,  95 |           of sensible qualities or ideas, and then their most unanswerable
217 Text,   0,  97 |           the doctrine of abstract ideas, such as it hath been set
218 Text,   0,  97 |       those particular actions and ideas that diversify the day,
219 Text,   0,  98 |  abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows
220 Text,   0,  98 |   abstracted from the sucession of ideas in our minds, it follows
221 Text,   0,  98 |         estimated by the number of ideas or actions succeeding each
222 Text,   0,  100|    virtuous without having precise ideas of justice and virtue. The
223 Text,   0,  101|           science conversant about ideas received from sense, are
224 Text,   0,  102|       motion, as well as all other ideas, is perfectly inert. See
225 Text,   0,  116|          elsewhere shewn, that the ideas of space and distance are
226 Text,   0,  118|       doctrine of abstract general ideas, and the existence of objects
227 Text,   0,  119|            for its object abstract ideas of Number; of which to understand
228 Text,   0,  120|          in abstract, there are no ideas of number in abstract denoted
229 Text,   0,  122|        here likewise that abstract ideas are thought to be signified
230 Text,   0,  122|          while they do not suggest ideas of particular things to
231 Text,   0,  124|           are no other than my own ideas; and it is no less plain
232 Text,   0,  124|       cannot resolve any one of my ideas into an infinite number
233 Text,   0,  124|           infinite number of other ideas, that is, that they are
234 Text,   0,  124|          conceivable, that is, for ideas, then to say a finite quantity
235 Text,   0,  125|       doctrine of abstract general ideas may be persuaded that (whatever
236 Text,   0,  125|         whatever be thought of the ideas of sense) extension in abstract
237 Text,   0,  126|         conversant about universal ideas (sect. 15, Introd.); where
238 Text,   0,  133|         supposing only spirits and ideas, and this scheme of things
239 Text,   0,  135|        concerning the knowledge of IDEAS, the method we proposed
240 Text,   0,  135|       wherein unthinking beings or ideas can exist; but that this
241 Text,   0,  135|        which supports or perceives ideas should itself be an idea
242 Text,   0,  136|     thereby some new sensations or ideas of sense. But I believe
243 Text,   0,  138|           thinking, and perceiving ideas, and there remains nothing
244 Text,   0,  139|           but that which perceives ideas, and wills, and reasons
245 Text,   0,  139|           by common consent called ideas, no reason can be assigned
246 Text,   0,  139|       perceived, but in perceiving ideas and thinking. It is therefore
247 Text,   0,  140|       Moreover, as we conceive the ideas that are in the minds of
248 Text,   0,  140|          me perceived has to those ideas perceived by another.~
249 Text,   0,  141|         soever, are barely passive ideas in the mind, which is more
250 Text,   0,  142|           way of idea. Spirits and ideas are things so wholly different,
251 Text,   0,  142|           mind, and its acts about ideas, inasmuch as I know or understand
252 Text,   0,  143|           the doctrine of abstract ideas has had no small share in
253 Text,   0,  144|       terms borrowed from sensible ideas. For example, the will is
254 Text,   0,  145|           their operations, or the ideas by them excited in us. I
255 Text,   0,  145|       changes, and combinations of ideas, that inform me there are
256 Text,   0,  145|          as is the knowledge of my ideas; but depending on the intervention
257 Text,   0,  145|   depending on the intervention of ideas, by me referred to agents
258 Text,   0,  146|            far greater part of the ideas or sensations perceived
259 Text,   0,  148|         only certain sensations or ideas excited in our own minds;
260 Text,   0,  148|            a certain collection of ideas as directs us to think there
261 Text,   0,  148|           and narrow assemblage of ideas denotes a particular human
262 Text,   0,  149|           them all that variety of ideas or sensations which continually