23. When judged adequate, without being so.
(3) When in its complex idea it has united a certain number of
simple ideas that do really exist together in some sort of creatures, but has also left out others as much
inseparable, it judges this to be a perfect complete idea of a sort of things which really it is not; v.g. having joined
the ideas of substance, yellow, malleable, most heavy, and fusible, it takes that complex idea to be the complete
idea of gold, when yet its peculiar fixedness, and solubility in aqua regia, are as inseparable from those other
ideas, or qualities, of that body as they are one from another.