5. To the reality of things.
Secondly, Because men would not be thought to talk barely of their own imagination,
but of things as really they are; therefore they often suppose the words to stand also for the reality of things. But
this relating more particularly to substances and their names, as perhaps the former does to simple ideas and
modes, we shall speak of these two different ways of applying words more at large, when we come to treat of the
names of mixed modes and substances in particular: though give me leave here to say, that it is a perverting the
use of words, and brings unavoidable obscurity and confusion into whenever we make them stand for anything
but those ideas we have in our own minds.
