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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S42
Section 729 of 1,114
Canonical reference B3.C6.S42
English
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This is further to be observed concerning substances, that they alone of all our several sorts of ideas have particular or proper names, whereby one only particular thing is signified. Because in simple ideas, modes, and relations, it seldom happens that men have occasion to mention often this or that particular when it is absent. Besides, the greatest part of mixed modes, being actions which perish in their birth, are not capable of a lasting duration, as substances which are the actors; and wherein the simple ideas that make up the complex ideas designed by the name have a lasting union.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Il faut de plus remarquer à l’égard des Subſtances, que de toutes les diverſes ſortes d’idées que nous avons, ce ſont les ſeules qui ayent des noms propres, par où l’on ne déſigne qu’une ſeule choſe particuliére. Et cela, parce que dans les Idées ſimples, dans les Modes & dans les Relations il arrive rarement que les hommes ayent occaſion de faire ſouvent mention d’aucune telle idée individuelle & particuliére lorſqu’elle eſt abſente. Outre que la plus grande partie des Modes mixtes étant des actions qui périſſent dès leur naiſſance, elles ne ſont pas capables d’une longue durée, ainſi que les Subſtances qui ſont des Agents & dans leſquelles les Idées ſimples qui forment les Idées complexes, déſignées par un nom particulier, ſubſiſtent long-temps unies enſemble.
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