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Of the Names of Simple Ideas An essay concerning human understanding | ||
1. Names of simple ideas, modes, and substances, have each something peculiar.
Though all words, as I have shown, signify nothing immediately but the ideas in the mind of the speaker; yet, upon a nearer survey, we shall find the names of simple ideas, mixed modes (under which I comprise relations too), and natural substances, have each of them something peculiar and different from the other. For example:
Chapter IV
Of the Names of Simple Ideas An essay concerning human understanding | ||