CHAP. XXIII. Of the complex ideas of substances. SECT. 1. Ideas of substances, how made. 2. Our idea of substance in general. 3, 6. Of the sorts of substances. 4. No clear idea of substance in general. 5. As clear an idea of spirit as body. 7. Powers a great part of our complex idea of sub. stances. 8. And why. 9. Three sorts of ideas make our complex ones of sub. stances. 10. Powers make a great part of our complex ideas of substances. lities of bodies would dis- if we could disco. their minute parts. 12. Our faculties of discovery suited to our state. 13. Conjecture about spiritse 14. Complex ideas of sub. stances. stances, as clear as of 16. No idea of abstract sub. stance, 17. The cohesion of solid parts, and impulse, the primary ideas of body. 18. Thinking and motivity the prinary ideas of spirit. 19-21. Spirits capable of mo. tion. 22. Idea of soul and body compared. 23—27. Cohesion of solid parts in body, as hard to be conceived, as thinking in a soul. 28, 29. Communication of motion by impulse, or by thought, equally intelligible. 30. Ideas of body and spirit compared. 31. The notion of spirit in volves no more difficulty in it than that of body. 32. We know nothing beyond our simple ideas. 33-35. Idea of God. 36. No ideas in our complex one of spirits, but those flection. CHAP. XXIV. CT. 1. One idea. A 3 2. Made 2. Made by the power of CHAP. XXVII. Of identity and diversity. SECT. the things related. sonal identity: 12-15 Whether in the change of 6. Relation only betwixt two thinking substances. 7. All things capable of re- same person. 17. Self depends on conscious. 18--20. Objects of reward and pu. subjects related. nishment. 21, 22. Difference between iden. 23--25. Consciousness alone makes beyond the subjects deno- self. 26, 27. Person a forensic term. 28. The difficulty from ill use 29. Continuedexistencemakes Of cause and effect, and other 1. Whence their ideas got. SECT. ways two ideas. 9. Civil law, the measure of 10. Confusion, without re. 10, 11. Philosophical law, the measure of virtue and 11. Confusion concerns al. vice. 12. Its inforcements, com- 12. Causes of Confusion. mendation, and discredit. 13. Complex ideas may be rules of moral good and confused in another. 14. This, if not heeded, causes 14, 15. Morality is the relation of actions to these rules. ings. 16. The denominations of ac. 15. Instance in eternity. 18. All relations terminate in clear (or clearer) notions Of real and fantastical ideas. 1. Real ideas are conforman tion is the same, whether 2. Simple ideas all r al. compared to be true or tary combinations. Of clear and distinct, obscure and real, when they agree plained by sight. 4. Distinct and confused, 1. Adequate ideas are such fusion. First, complex 4, 5. Modes in reference to seta tled names, may be in. 8. Secondly, or its simple 6,7. Ideas of substances, as re. ferred to real essences, not 8.II. Ideas of substances, as 15. Though one man's idea of 13. Ideas of substances are 18. Thirdly, Ideas of sub. 21. But are false, First, when or false. to agree to real existence, 2. Metaphysical truth con. when they do not. tains a tacit proposition. 23. Thirdly, When judged adequate without being so. ance in the mind, true 24. Fourthly, When judged to represent the real essence. 4. Ideas referred to any 25. Ideas, when false. thing, may be true or 26. More properly to be call. false. ed right or wrong. n's ideas, real 27. Conclusion. men usually refer their CHAP. XXXIII. G8. The cause of such re- Of the association of ideas. SECT. 9. Simple ideas may be false 1. Something unreasonable in in reference to others of the same name, but are 2. Not wholly from self. least liable to be so. love. 10. Ideas of mixed modes 3. Nor from education. most liable to be false in 4. A degree of madness. this sense. 5. From a wrong connexion 11. Or at least to be thought of ideas. false. 6. This connexion howmade, 7, 8. Some antipathies an effect 13. As referred to real exist- of it. ences, none of our ideas 9. A great cause of errours. can be false, but those of 10-12. Instances. substances. 13. Why time cures some dis. 14, 16. First, Simple ideas in orders in the mind, which this sense not false, and reason cannot. why. 14--16. Farther instances of the effects 5. Other ideas to. ferences. most men. |