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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S3

Section 657 of 1,114

Canonical reference B3.C4.S3

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Secondly, The names of simple ideas and modes signify always the real as well as nominal essence of their species. But the names of natural substances signify rarely, if ever, anything but barely the nominal essences of those species; as we shall show in the chapter that treats of the names of substances in particular.

French

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

III. Les noms des idées ſimples ne peuvent être définis. En ſecond lieu, les noms des Idées ſimples & des Modes ſignifient toujours l’eſſence réelle de leurs Eſpèces auſſi bien que la nominale. Mais les noms des Subſtances naturelles ne ſignifient que rarement, pour ne pas dire jamais, autre choſe que l’eſſence nominale de leurs Eſpèces, comme on verra dans le Chapitre où nous traitons * des Noms des Subſtances en particulier.

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