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18. Men can have no ideas of real essences.
Fourthly, The real essences of those things which we distinguish into species, and as so distinguished we name, ought to be known; i.e., we ought to have ideas of them. But since we are ignorant in these four points, the supposed real essences of things stand us not in stead for the distinguishing substances into species.
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