1. Adequate ideas are fuch as perfectly represent their archetypes.

2. Simple ideas all adequate.

3. Modes are all adequate. 4, 5. Modes in reference to settled names, may be inadequate.

6, 7. Ideas of fubftances, as referred to real effences, not adequate. B-11. Ideas of fubftances, as collections of their qualities, are all inadequate. 12. Simple ideas Tuña, and adequate.

1.3. Ideas of substances are

ITUTA, and inadequate. 14. Ideas of modes and relations are archetypes, and cannot but be adequate.

2. Metaphyfical truth contains a tacit propofition.

3. No idea, as

an appear

ance in the mind, true
or falfe.

4. Ideas referred to any thing,
may be true or false.
5. Other men's ideas, real
existence, and fuppofed
real effences, are what
men ufually refer their
ideas to.

6-8. The caufe of fuch references.

9. Simple ideas may be false in reference to others of the fame name, but are leaft liable to be fo. 10. Ideas of mixed modes moft liable to be falfe in this fenfe.

II. Or at least to be thought falfe.

12. And why.

13. As referred to real exiftences, none of our ideas can be falfe, but those of fubftances.

14, 16. First, Simple ideas in this fenfe not falfe, and why.

15. Though one man's idea of
blue fhould be different
from another's.
17. Secondly, Modes not
falfe.

18. Thirdly, Ideas of fub-
ftances, when falfe.
19. Truth or falsehood always
fuppofes affirmation or ne-
gation.

20.

ideas in themselves neither true nor falfe.

21. But are false, First, when judged agreeable to another man's idea without being fo.

24. Secondly, When judged to agree to real existence, when they do not.

23. Thirdly, When judged adequate without being fo, 24. Fourthly,

10. Why the genus is ordina

rily made use of in definitions.

11. General and universal are creatures of the understanding.

12. Abstract ideas are the ef

fences of the genera and species. 13. They are the workmanship of the understanding, but have their foundation in the fimilitude of things. 14. Each diftin&t abstract idea is a diftinct effence.

15. Real and nominal effence. 16. Conftant connexion be

tween the name and nonal effence.

11. Simple ideas, why undefinable further explained.

12, 13. The contrary fhowed in
complex ideas by instances
of a statue and rainbow.
14. The names of complex ideas
when to be made intelligi-
ble by words.

15. Fourthly, Names of fimple
ideas leaft doubtful.
16 Fifthly, Simple ideas have
few afcents in linea prædi-
camentali.

17. Sixthly, Names of fimple
ideas, ftand for ideas not at
all arbitrary.

CHA P. V.

are diftinguished by their

real effences, useless.

18. Real and nominal effence the fame in fimple ideas and modes, different in fubftances.

9. Effences ingenerable and incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

CHA P. IV.
Of the names of fimple ideas.
SECT.

1. Names of fimple ideas,
modes, and substances, have
each fomething peculiar.
2. Firft, Names of fimple ideas
and fubftances, intimate
real existence.

3. Secondly, Names of fimple
ideas and modes fignify al-
ways both real and nominal
effence.

4. Thirdly, Names of fimple

ideas undefinable.

5. If all were definable, it
would be a process in infi-
nitum.

6. What a definition is.
7. Simple ideas, why undefi-
nable.

8,9. Inftances, motion.
10. Light.

SECT.

relations.

1. They ftand for abstract ideas
as other general names.
2. First, The ideas they stand
for are made by the under-
standing.

3. Secondly, made arbitrarily,
and without patterns.
4. How this is done.
5. Evidently arbitrary, in that.
the idea is often before the
existence.

6. Inftances, murther, incest,
ftabbing.

7. But ftill fubfervient to the

end of language.

8. Whereof the intranflatable words of divers languages are a proof.

9. This shows fpecies to be made for communication. 10, 11. In mixed modes, it is the name that ties the combination together, and makes it a fpecies.

12. For the originals of mixed
modes, we look no farther
than the mind, which alfo
fhows them to be the work-
manship of the understand-
ing.
13. Their being made by the
understanding without pat-

terns,

31. But make several effences
fignified by the fame name.
32. The more general our ideas
are, the more incomplete
and partial they are..
33. This all accommodated to
the end of fpeech.
34. Inftance in caffuaris.
35. Men make the fpecies. In-
stance gold.

36. Though nature makes the
fimilitude.

37. And continues it in the races of things.

38. Each abftract idea is an effence.

39. Genera and fpecies are in order to naming. Inftance, watch.

40. Species of artificial things lefs confused than natural. 41. Artificial things of distinct fpecies.

42. Substances alone have proper names.

43. Difficulty to treat of words with words.

44, 45. Inftance of mixed modes in kineah and niouph. 46,47. Inftance of fubftances in zahab.

48. Their ideas imperfect, and
therefore various.

49. Therefore to fix their fpe-
cies, a real effence is fup-
pofed.
50. Which fuppofition is of no

ufe.
51. Conclufion.

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