 | Chapter V
Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations An essay concerning human understanding |  |
2. First, The abstract ideas they stand for are made by the understanding.
The first particularity I shall observe in them, is, that the abstract ideas, or, if you please, the essences, of the several species of mixed modes, are made by the understanding, wherein they differ from those of simple ideas: in which sort the mind has no power to make any one, but only receives such as are presented to it by the real existence of things operating upon it.
| Chapter V
Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations An essay concerning human understanding | |