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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S5
Section 566 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C31.S5
English
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Therefore these complex ideas of MODES, which they are referred by the mind, and intended to correspond to the ideas in the mind of some other intelligent being, expressed by the names we apply to them, they may be very deficient, wrong, and inadequate; because they agree not to that which the mind designs to be their archetype and pattern: in which respect only any idea of modes can be wrong, imperfect, or inadequate. And on this account our ideas of mixed modes are the most liable to be faulty of any other; but this refers more to proper speaking than knowing right.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Lors donc que nous rapportons dans notre Eſprit ces idées complexes des Modes à des Idées de quelque autre Etre Intelligent, exprimées par les noms que nous leur appliquons, prétendant qu’elles y répondent exactement, elles peuvent être en ce cas-là très-defectueuſes, fauſſes & incompletes ; parce qu’elles ne s’accordent pas avec ce que l’Eſprit ſe propoſe pour leur Archetype ou modèle. Et c’eſt à cet égard ſeulement qu’une idée de Modes peut être fauſſe, imparfaite ou incomplete. Sur ce pié-là nos Idées des Modes mixtes ſont plus ſujettes qu’aucune autre à être fauſſes & défectueuſes ; mais cela a plus de rapport à la propriété du Language qu’à la juſteſſe des connoiſſances.
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