11. Moral and metaphysical truth.
Besides truth taken in the strict sense before mentioned, there are other sorts of
truths: As, 1. Moral truth, which is speaking of things according to the persuasion of our own minds, though the
proposition we speak agree not to the reality of things; 2. Metaphysical truth, which is nothing but the real
existence of things, conformable to the ideas to which we have annexed their names. This, though it seems to
consist in the very beings of things, yet, when considered a little nearly, will appear to include a tacit proposition,
whereby the mind joins that particular thing to the idea it had before settled with the name to it. But these
considerations of truth, either having been before taken notice of, or not being much to our present purpose, it
may suffice here only to have mentioned them.
