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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S12
Section 432 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C22.S12
English
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I think I shall not need to remark here that, though power and action make the greatest part of mixed modes, marked by names, and familiar in the minds and mouths of men, yet other simple ideas, and their several combinations, are not excluded: much less, I think, will it be necessary for me to enumerate all the mixed modes which have been settled, with names to them. That would be to make a dictionary of the greatest part of the words made use of in divinity, ethics, law, and politics, and several other sciences. All that is requisite to my present design, is to show what sort of ideas those are which I call mixed modes; how the mind comes by them; and that they are compositions made up of simple ideas got from sensation and reflection; which I suppose I have done.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Je ne croi pas, au reſte, qu’il ſoit néceſſaire de remarquer ici, que, quoi que la Puiſſance & l’Action conſtituent la plus grande partie des Modes mixtes qu’on a déſignez par des noms particuliers & qui ſont le plus ſouvent dans l’Eſprit & dans la bouche des hommes, il ne faut pourtant pas exclurre les autres Idées ſimples avec leurs différentes combinaiſons. Il eſt je penſe, encore moins néceſſaire de faire une énumeration de tous les Modes mixtes qui ont été fixez & déterminez par des noms particuliers. Ce ſeroit vouloir faire un Dictionnaire de la plus grande partie des Mots qu’on employe dans la Théologie, dans la Morale, dans la Jurisprudence, dans la Politique & dans diverſes autres Sciences. Tout ce qui fait à mon préſent deſſein, c’eſt de montrer, quelle eſpèce d’Idées ſont celles que je nomme Modes Mixtes, comment l’Eſprit vient à les acquerir, & que ce ſont des combinaiſons d’Idées ſimples qu’on acquiert par la Senſation & par la Réflexion : & c’eſt là, à mon avis, ce que j’ai fait.
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