1. Ideas considered in reference to their archetypes.
Besides what we have already mentioned concerning ideas,
other considerations belong to them, in reference to things from whence they are taken, or which they may be
supposed to represent; and thus, I think, they may come under a three-fold distinction, and are:--
First, either real or fantastical;
Secondly, adequate or inadequate;
Thirdly, true or false.
First, by real ideas, I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with the real being and
existence of things, or with their archetypes. Fantastical or chimerical, I call such as have no foundation in nature,
nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred, as to their archetypes. If we
examine the several sorts of ideas before mentioned, we shall find that,