14. Each diftinct abftrait Idea

is a diftinct Effence. 15. Real and Nominal Effence. 16. Conftant Connection between the Name and Nominal Effence.

17. Suppofition, that Species are diftinguished by their real Effences, useless. 18. Real and Nominal Effence the fame in fimple Ideas and Modes, different in Subftances.

19. Effences ingenerable and incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

CHA P. IV.

Of the Names of fimple Ideas. SECT.

1. Names of fimple Ideas, Modes and Subftances, have each Something peculiar.

2. Firft, Names of fimple Ideas and Subftances, intimate real Exiftence.

3. Secondly, Names of fimple
Ideas and Modes fignify al-
ways both real and nominal
Effence.

4. Thirdly, Names of fimple
Ideas undefinable.
5: If all were definable, 'twould
be a Process in infinitum.
6. What a Definition is.
7. Simple Ideas, why unde-
finable.

8, 9. Inftances, Motion. 10. Light.

11. Simple Ideas, why undefi

nable further explained. 12, 13. The contrary fhewed in complex Ideas by Inftances of a Statue and Rainbow. 14. The Names of complex Ideas

1. They ftand for abstract Ideas as other general Names. 2. First, The Ideas they ftand for are made by the UnderStanding.

3. Secondly, made arbitrarily, and without Patterns. 4. How this is done. 5. Evidently arbitrary, in that the Idea is often before the Exiftence.

6. Inftances, Murther, Incest, Stabbing

7. But fill fubfervient to the End of Language. 8. Whereof the intranflatable Words of diverfe Languages are a Proof.

9. This fhews Species to be made for Communication. 10, 11. In mixed Modes, 'tis the Name that ties the Combination together, and makes it a Species.

12. For the Original of mixed Modes, we look no farther than the Mind, which alfo fhews them to be the Workmanship of the Understanding.

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