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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S20
Section 766 of 1,114
Canonical reference B3.C9.S20
English
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Mixed modes, therefore, that are made up but of a few and obvious simple ideas, have usually names of no very uncertain signification. But the names of mixed modes, which comprehend a great number of simple ideas, are commonly of a very doubtful and undetermined meaning, as has been shown. The names of substances, being annexed to ideas that are neither the real essences, nor exact representations of the patterns they are referred to, are liable to yet greater imperfection and uncertainty, especially when we come to a philosophical use of them.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
C’eſt pourquoi les Modes mixtes qui ne ſont compoſez que d’un petit nombre d’Idées ſimples les plus communes, ont ordinairement des noms dont la ſignification n’eſt par fort incertaine. Mais les noms des Modes mixtes qui contiennent un grand nombre d’Idées ſimples, ont communément des ſignifications fort douteuſes & fort indéterminées, comme nous l’avons déjà montré. Les noms des Subſtances qu’on attache à des idées qui ne ſont ni des Eſſences réelles ni des repréſentations exactes des Modèles auxquels elles ſe rapportent, ſont encore ſujets à une plus grande incertitude, ſur-tout quand nous les employons à un uſage Philoſophique.
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