A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . ANEW TREATISE O F T H E Art o£ THINKING. PART I. ~ S E C T. II. Of the Variety of Ideas^ which arifes fromtheir Obje^s. CHAP. I. Of the different ObjeBs of our Idens^ as thofeObjeiis are confider d in themfelves, U R Ideas muft needs vary accordingto the DilFcrence of thofeThings we defire to know; Suhjlances andand our Miftakcs arife only applying fome Ideasto
A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . ANEW TREATISE O F T H E Art o£ THINKING. PART I. ~ S E C T. II. Of the Variety of Ideas^ which arifes fromtheir Obje^s. CHAP. I. Of the different ObjeBs of our Idens^ as thofeObjeiis are confider d in themfelves, U R Ideas muft needs vary accordingto the DilFcrence of thofeThings we defire to know; Suhjlances andand our Miftakcs arife only applying fome Ideasto feveral Objects, which they do not be-long to. Logic mull therefore enable us to make our U 3 Ideas. 294 A new TREATISE of Part L Ideas agreeable to their Objeds. Some Maxims may beof life to that End. When I confider a Piece of Wax, I fee it is a realThing; and I perceive likewile that its/%%r<? (its Round-ncfs, for inftance) is fomething real\ but 1 find a verygreat Difference between thofe two Realities. The Wathas its ovjn Exijlences ? Exiftence, which is fiot thefame with the Exiflence ot the Bodies that furround it; tisthe Exiftence of that Wax, and not of any other Thing what-ibever. The fame cannot be faid of its Roundnefs ; forit does notexiflfeparately from the Wax : That Roundnefs isthe Wax it felf terminated after a certain Manner ; tis theState of the Wax: And the State of a Thing is the Thing itfelf, exiiling after a certain Manner. We learn from thence to dittingnifli two Ideas, whicharife from two Sorts of Beings ; Thofe that have their ownExiflence^Vifeparate Exiflence^ are c^iWiSuhjiances; and wecall Alodes thofe Realities, which have not a feparate
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