6. Confusion of ideas is in reference to their names.
To remove this difficulty, and to help us to conceive aright
what it is that makes the confusion ideas are at any time chargeable with, we must consider, that things ranked
under distinct names are supposed different enough to be distinguished, that so each sort by its peculiar name may
be marked, and discoursed of apart upon any occasion: and there is nothing more evident, than that the greatest
part of different names are supposed to stand for different things. Now every idea a man has, being visibly what it
is, and distinct from all other ideas but itself; that which makes it confused, is, when it is such that it may as well
be called by another name as that which it is expressed by; the difference which keeps the things (to be ranked
under those two different names) distinct, and makes some of them belong rather to the one and some of them to
the other of those names, being left out; and so the distinction, which was intended to be kept up by those
different names, is quite lost.
