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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S8
Section 642 of 1,114
Canonical reference B3.C3.S8
English
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By the same way that they come by the general name and idea of MAN, they easily advance to more general names and notions. For, observing that several things that differ from their idea of man, and cannot therefore be comprehended out under that name, have yet certain qualities wherein they agree with man, by retaining only those qualities, and uniting them into one idea, they have again another and more general idea; to which having given a name they make a term of a more comprehensive extension: which new idea is made, not by any new addition, but only as before, by leaving out the shape, and some other properties signified by the name man, and retaining only a body, with life, sense, and spontaneous motion, comprehended under the name animal.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Par le même moyen qu’ils acquiérent le nom & l’idée générale d’Homme, ils acquiérent aiſément des noms, & des notions plus générales. Car venant à obſerver que pluſieurs choſes qui différent de l’idée qu’ils ont de l’Homme, & qui ne ſauroient par conſéquent être compriſes ſous ce nom, ont pourtant certaines qualitez en quoi elles conviennent avec l’Homme, ils ſe forment une autre idée plus générale en retenant ſeulement ces Qualitez & les réuniſſant dans une ſeule idée ; & en donnant un nom à cette idée, ils font un terme d’une comprehenſion plus étenduë. Or cette nouvelle Idée ne ſe fait point par aucune nouvelle addition, mais ſeulement comme la précedente, en ôtant la figure & quelques autres propriétez déſignées par le mot d’homme, & en retenant ſeulement un Corps, accompagné de vie, de ſentiment, & de motion ſpontannée, ce qui eſt compris ſous le nom d’Animal.
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