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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S1

Section 557 of 1,114

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Besides what we have already mentioned concerning ideas, other considerations belong to them, in reference to THINGS FROM WHENCE THEY ARE TAKEN, or WHICH THEY MAY BE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT; and thus, I think, they may come under a threefold distinction, and are: - First, either real or fantastical; Secondly, adequate or inadequate; Thirdly, true or false.

First, by REAL IDEAS, I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with the real being and existence of things, or with their archetypes. FANTASTICAL or CHIMERICAL, I call such as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred, as to their archetypes. If we examine the several sorts of ideas before mentioned, we shall find that,

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

IL reſte encore quelques reflexions à faire ſur les Idées, par rapport aux choſes d’où elles ſont déduites, ou qu’on peut ſuppoſer qu’elles repréſentent ; & à cet égard je croi qu’on les peut conſiderer ſous cette triple diſtinction :

Prémiérement, comme Réelles ou Chimeriques :

En ſecond lieu, comme Completes ou Incompletes :

Et en troiſième lieu, comme Vrayes ou Fauſſes.

Et prémiérement, par Idées réelles j’entens celles qui ont du fondement dans la Nature ; qui ſont conformes à un Etre réel, à l’exiſtence des Choſes, ou à leurs Archetypes. Et j’appelle Idée phantaſtiques ou chimeriques celles qui n’ont point de fondement dans la nature, ni aucune conformité avec la réalité des choſes auxquelles elles ſe rapportent tacitement comme à leurs Archetypes.

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