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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S7
Section 145 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C8.S7
English
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To discover the nature of our IDEAS the better, and to discourse of them intelligibly, it will be convenient to distinguish them AS THEY ARE IDEAS OR PERCEPTIONS IN OUR MINDS; and AS THEY ARE MODIFICATIONS OF MATTER IN THE BODIES THAT CAUSE SUCH PERCEPTIONS IN US: that so we may not think (as perhaps usually is done) that they are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject; most of those of sensation being in the mind no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Mais afin de mieux découvrir la nature de nos Idées, & d’en diſcourir d’une maniére plus intelligible, il eſt néceſſaire de les diſtinguer entant qu’elles ſont des perceptions & des idées dans notre Eſprit, & entant qu’elles ſont, dans les Corps, des modifications de matiére qui produiſent ces perceptions dans l’Eſprit. Il faut, dis-je, diſtinguer exactement ces deux choſes, de peu que nous ne figurions (comme on n’eſt peut-être que trop accoûtumé à le faire) que nos idées ſont de véritables images ou reſſemblances de quelque choſe d’inhérent dans le Sujet qui les Produit : car la plûpart des Idées de Senſation qui ſont dans notre Eſprit, ne reſſemblent pas plus à quelque choſe qui exiſte hors de nous, que les noms qu’on employe pour les exprimer, reſſemblent à nos Idées, quoi que ces noms ne laiſſent pas de les exciter en nous, dès que nous les entendons.
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Care of the soul
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Degrees of knowledge and probability
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Ideas from sensation and reflection
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Impressions and assent
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Mindfulness
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Mode
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Nature
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Personal identity and consciousness
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Reason
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Simple and complex ideas
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Spirit
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