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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S23
Section 598 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C32.S23
English
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(3) When in its complex idea it has united a certain number of simple ideas that do really exist together in some sort of creatures, but has also left out others as much inseparable, it JUDGES this to be a perfect complete idea of a sort of things which really it is not; v.g. having joined the ideas of substance, yellow, malleable, most heavy, and fusible, it takes that complex idea to be the complete idea of gold, when yet its peculiar fixedness, and solubility in AQUA REGIA, are as inseparable from those other ideas, or qualities, of that body as they are one from another.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
En troiſiéme lieu, lorſqu’ayant réuni dans ſon Idée complexe, un certain nombre d’idées ſimples qui exiſtent réellement enſemble dans quelques eſpèces de créatures, & en ayant exclus d’autres qui en ſont autant inſeparables, il juge que c’eſt l’idée parfaite & complete d’une eſpèce de choſes, ce qui n’eſt point effectivement : comme ſi venant à joindre les idées d’une ſubſtance jaune, malleable, fort peſante & fuſible, il ſuppoſe que cette idée complexe eſt une idée complete de l’Or, quoi qu’une certaine fixité & la capacité d’être diſſous dans l’Eau Regale ſoient auſſi inſeparables des autres idées ou qualitez de ce Corps, que celles-là le ſont l’une de l’autre.
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Degrees of knowledge and probability
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Ether and field
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Ideas from sensation and reflection
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Impressions and assent
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Judgment
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Knowledge
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Messiah
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Nominal and real essence
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Parable and reversal
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Personal identity and consciousness
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Primary and secondary qualities
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Psychological complex
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Reason
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Simple and complex ideas
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