14. Names of mixed modes stand always for their real essences, which are the workmanship of our minds.
Another thing we may observe from what has been said is, That the names of mixed modes always signify (when
they have any determined signification) the real essences of their species. For, these abstract ideas being the
workmanship of the mind, and not referred to the real existence of things, there is no supposition of anything
more signified by that name, but barely that complex idea the mind itself has formed; which is all it would have
expressed by it; and is that on which all the properties of the species depend, and from which alone they all flow:
and so in these the real and nominal essence is the same; which, of what concernment it is to the certain
knowledge of general truth, we shall see hereafter.
