4. Ideas of modes.
First, Modes I call such complex ideas which, however compounded, contain not in them the
supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependences on, or affections of substances;--such
as are the ideas signified by the words triangle, gratitude, murder, etc. And if in this I use the word mode in
somewhat a different sense from its ordinary signification, I beg pardon; it being unavoidable in discourses,
differing from the ordinary received notions, either to make new words, or to use old words in somewhat a new
signification; the later whereof, in our present case, is perhaps the more tolerable of the two.
