item: #1 of 69 id: locke-essay_001-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_001-1695 date: 1695 words: 8244 flesch: 53 summary: John Locke has dedicated his Essay on Human Understanding to his lord. He hopes that his lord's approval of the Essay will prevent it from being condemned without reading it. John Locke hopes it will be a reason to lead his lord further. keywords: actions; book; clear; design; determined; different; edition; essay; exerting; extent; good; great; ideas; innate; inquiry; knowledge; little; long; lordship; man; matter; meaning; men; mind; nature; necessary; new; notions; opinion; order; pains; parts; present; reader; reason; right; satisfaction; soul; subject; thee; things; thoughts; time; treatise; true; truth; understanding; use; vice; view; virtue; way; words; world; worth cache: locke-essay_001-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_001-1695.txt item: #2 of 69 id: locke-essay_002-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_002-1695 date: 1695 words: 7587 flesch: 57 summary: No Innate Speculative Principles is the way shown how we come by any knowledge, sufficient to prove it not innate. It is an established opinion that there are in the understanding certain innate principles, some primary notions, koinai ennoiai, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it. It would be sufficient to convince unprejudiced readers of the falseness of this supposition. keywords: assent; capable; certain; children; evident; general; hearing; ideas; ignorant; impossible; impressions; innate; knowledge; known; maxims; men; mind; names; nature; principles; propositions; reason; terms; thing; time; truths; understanding; universal; use; way; words cache: locke-essay_002-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_002-1695.txt item: #3 of 69 id: locke-essay_003-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_003-1695 date: 1695 words: 8213 flesch: 60 summary: There are no innate moral or practical principles. Faith and justice are not owned as principles by all men. Practical principles are derived from nature and derived from the operation of operation of nature, and they are in vain distinguished from speculative maxims. keywords: actions; assent; breach; certain; certainty; characters; children; common; conscience; consent; contrary; different; doubt; duty; evident; general; god; good; great; impossible; innate; innate law; innate practical; innate principles; justice; knowledge; known; law; life; little; man; mankind; marks; men; minds; moral; moral principles; morality; natural; nature; nay; need; obligation; opinions; people; practical; practical principles; practice; principles; proof; propositions; punishment; reason; right; rules; set; things; thoughts; time; true; truth; universal; virtue; viz; words; worship cache: locke-essay_003-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_003-1695.txt item: #4 of 69 id: locke-essay_004-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_004-1695 date: 1695 words: 8017 flesch: 62 summary: Innate principles are not innate, unless their ideas are. New-born children do not bring many ideas into the world with them. "Impossibility" and "identity" are also not innate ideas, but they require care and attention to form them right in our understandings. keywords: actual; assent; characters; children; clear; colours; consciousness; deity; different; doubt; faculties; god; goodness; great; ideas; identity; innate; innate ideas; innate principles; knowledge; little; man; mankind; memory; men; mind; new; notion; people; principles; propositions; reason; right; things; thoughts; true; truth; universal; use; want; way; ways; wise; world cache: locke-essay_004-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_004-1695.txt item: #5 of 69 id: locke-essay_005-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_005-1695 date: 1695 words: 6246 flesch: 64 summary: Idea is the object of thinking. All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Experience is the source of knowledge. Sensations are the other source of ideas. The mind takes its own operations and the manner of them into account. keywords: body; conscious; experience; hypothesis; ideas; impressions; knowledge; man; matter; memory; men; mind; necessary; objects; operations; parts; perception; persons; reason; reflection; sensation; senses; sensible; sleeping; soul; thinking; thoughts; time; understanding; variety cache: locke-essay_005-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_005-1695.txt item: #6 of 69 id: locke-essay_006-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_006-1695 date: 1695 words: 830 flesch: 59 summary: There are simple and complex ideas in the mind. The mind can neither make nor destroy them. Only the qualities that affect the senses are imaginable. It is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, to invent or frame one new simple idea. keywords: distinct; ideas; man; mind; power; qualities; senses; simple; understanding cache: locke-essay_006-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_006-1695.txt item: #7 of 69 id: locke-essay_007-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_007-1695 date: 1695 words: 566 flesch: 76 summary: There are some simple ideas that come into our minds by one sense only, others that convey themselves into the mind by more senses than one, others from reflection only, and some that make themselves visible by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Few simple ideas have names. keywords: different; ideas; mind; names; sense; simple cache: locke-essay_007-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_007-1695.txt item: #8 of 69 id: locke-essay_008-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_008-1695 date: 1695 words: 1875 flesch: 62 summary: The idea of solidity comes from the resistance of body to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses. This resistance keeps other bodies out of the space which it possesses, so great that no force can surmount it. The world is built on the supposition that the world is based on the ideas of space and motion. keywords: approach; bodies; body; figure; idea; motion; parts; place; resistance; solidity; space; water cache: locke-essay_008-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_008-1695.txt item: #9 of 69 id: locke-essay_009-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_009-1695 date: 1695 words: 87 flesch: 72 summary: Ideas received both by seeing and touching are, of space or extension, figure, rest, and motion. They make perceivable impressions both on the eyes and touch. I will speak more at large of these ideas in another place. keywords: ideas cache: locke-essay_009-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_009-1695.txt item: #10 of 69 id: locke-essay_010-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_010-1695 date: 1695 words: 185 flesch: 68 summary: Simple ideas are the operations of mind about its other ideas. The idea of perception and the idea of willing are the principal actions of the mind. The power of thinking is called Understanding, and the power of volition is called the Will. keywords: ideas; mind cache: locke-essay_010-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_010-1695.txt item: #11 of 69 id: locke-essay_011-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_011-1695 date: 1695 words: 1577 flesch: 61 summary: There are simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Pleasure and pain are the ideas of pleasure and pain. Pain is often produced by the same objects and ideas that produce pleasure in us. Pain has the same efficacy and use as pleasure. keywords: bodies; delight; end; ideas; minds; motion; objects; pain; pleasure; power; reflection; sensation; simple; thoughts cache: locke-essay_011-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_011-1695.txt item: #12 of 69 id: locke-essay_012-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_012-1695 date: 1695 words: 4516 flesch: 60 summary: There are some further considerations concerning Simple Ideas of Sensation. Positive ideas are distinguished from privative ideas. Negative names can be used to distinguish positive ideas from negative ones. The idea of black is no less positive in a person's mind than that of white. keywords: bodies; body; bulk; cause; different; figure; ideas; insensible; light; manna; mind; motion; parts; positive; powers; primary; qualities; secondary; sensation; senses; sun; white cache: locke-essay_012-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_012-1695.txt item: #13 of 69 id: locke-essay_013-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_013-1695 date: 1695 words: 2711 flesch: 64 summary: Phenomenon is the first and simplest idea of the mind. Reflection alone can give us the idea of what perception is. Children may have ideas in the womb, but they have none innate. The ideas of hunger and warmth are two of the first that children have. keywords: animals; bodies; body; children; cube; degree; globe; ideas; judgment; knowledge; man; mind; motion; notice; organ; perception; sensation; sense; sight; womb cache: locke-essay_013-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_013-1695.txt item: #14 of 69 id: locke-essay_014-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_014-1695 date: 1695 words: 2401 flesch: 62 summary: The faculty of the mind is called retention. Retention is the keeping of simple ideas from sensation or reflection. The memory is the storehouse of these ideas. Attention, repetition, pleasure and pain fix ideas in the memory. The memories of some people are very weak. keywords: children; faculty; great; ideas; knowledge; man; memory; men; mind; notice; objects; perception; senses; sight; spirits; thoughts; understanding; view cache: locke-essay_014-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_014-1695.txt item: #15 of 69 id: locke-essay_015-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_015-1695 date: 1695 words: 3065 flesch: 61 summary: No knowledge without discernment. The difference between wit and judgment. Comparing the ideas of different tribes. Comprehending the difference between different colours taken from two very different bodies taken from different parts of the same body. The idea of bitter and sweet being distinct in the mind. keywords: brutes; complex; difference; distinct; faculties; faculty; general; having; ideas; knowledge; little; man; men; mind; ones; operations; particular; reason; simple; things; time; understanding; use; words cache: locke-essay_015-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_015-1695.txt item: #16 of 69 id: locke-essay_016-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_016-1695 date: 1695 words: 1280 flesch: 60 summary: The mind makes complex ideas out of simple ones. Complex ideas are either of modes, substances, or relations. Simple ideas are of two sorts: simple modes and complex modes. Complex modes are of several simple ideas put together to make one complex one. Complex relations are of multiple simple ones put together. keywords: complex; ideas; man; mind; modes; ones; power; sensation; simple; substances cache: locke-essay_016-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_016-1695.txt item: #17 of 69 id: locke-essay_017-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_017-1695 date: 1695 words: 6147 flesch: 59 summary: Simple ideas are the materials of all our knowledge. They are as distinct and distinct in the mind as those of the greatest distance or contrariety. The idea of two is as distinct from that of one as blueness from heat, or either of them from any number. Each different distance is a different modification of space. The power of repeating or doubling any idea of any distance is that which gives us the idea of immensity. keywords: beings; board; bodies; body; chess; clear; different; distance; distinct; existence; extension; god; hath; idea; infinite; man; matter; men; mind; motion; parts; place; power; simple; solidity; space; substance; superficies; things; touch; use; vacuum; void cache: locke-essay_017-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_017-1695.txt item: #18 of 69 id: locke-essay_018-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_018-1695 date: 1695 words: 6579 flesch: 55 summary: The idea of duration is derived from reflection on the train of our ideas. When a man is awake, he keeps a succession of ideas in his mind, but when he is asleep, he has no such succession. The idea of eternity is also derived from the same common original with the rest of the ideas. keywords: appearances; bodies; body; certain; constant; days; distance; duration; equal; eternity; extension; hours; ideas; length; man; measure; minds; motion; parts; periods; regular; revolutions; succession; sun; thing; thoughts; time; train; use; world; years cache: locke-essay_018-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_018-1695.txt item: #19 of 69 id: locke-essay_019-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_019-1695 date: 1695 words: 3276 flesch: 55 summary: Ideas of Duration and Expansion are both capable of greater and less. The mind has this common idea of continued lengths, capable of more or less quantities. It can double, multiply, and enlarge the length of any length of duration beyond the existence of all corporeal beings. God fills immensity. keywords: beings; bodies; body; capable; certain; distance; duration; existence; expansion; extension; idea; infinite; length; matter; mind; parts; place; space; things; thoughts; time; world cache: locke-essay_019-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_019-1695.txt item: #20 of 69 id: locke-essay_020-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_020-1695 date: 1695 words: 1820 flesch: 58 summary: Number is the most universal and simple idea in the world. Its modes are made by addition and repetition. The simple modes of number are of all other the most distinct. Numbers are more precise and distinguishable than in extension. They are more general in their use and more determinate in their application. keywords: adding; complex; distinct; extension; great; idea; millions; modes; multitude; names; necessary; number; simple; unit cache: locke-essay_020-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_020-1695.txt item: #21 of 69 id: locke-essay_021-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_021-1695 date: 1695 words: 6138 flesch: 52 summary: Infinite and infinite are the modes of quantity. The idea of God is related to his duration, ubiquity, and power, wisdom, and goodness. The ideas of space, duration, and number are related to expansion and contraction. Our idea of space is boundless, which naturally leads us to the idea of infinity. keywords: addition; body; bounds; capable; clear; duration; end; endless; eternal; eternity; existence; great; idea; increase; infinite; infinite duration; infinite space; matter; mind; negation; number; parts; positive; positive idea; power; quantity; space; thoughts cache: locke-essay_021-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_021-1695.txt item: #22 of 69 id: locke-essay_022-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_022-1695 date: 1695 words: 1130 flesch: 59 summary: In Chapter XVIII I explain some simple modes of the simple ideas of sensation. I also explain some more complex ideas, such as modes of motion, colours, sounds, tastes, and smells. Some simple modes have no names, but others do. keywords: complex; different; distinct; ideas; men; mind; modes; motion; names; simple cache: locke-essay_022-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_022-1695.txt item: #23 of 69 id: locke-essay_023-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_023-1695 date: 1695 words: 1011 flesch: 52 summary: There are different modes of thinking. Sensation, remembrance, contemplation, reverie, and dreaming are just a few examples of them. Thinking is the action, not the essence, of intention and remission of the mind in thinking, with a great variety of degrees of attention. keywords: attention; distinct; dreaming; ideas; mind; modes; senses; sleep; thinking cache: locke-essay_023-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_023-1695.txt item: #24 of 69 id: locke-essay_024-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_024-1695 date: 1695 words: 1675 flesch: 70 summary: According to the chapter XX of "Pleasure and Pain" there are two types of ideas: good and evil. Good and evil are good and bad, respectively. Love and hatred are based on different ideas of pleasure and pain. Desire is more or less vehement. keywords: delight; evil; good; ideas; love; mind; pain; passions; pleasure; thought; uneasiness cache: locke-essay_024-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_024-1695.txt item: #25 of 69 id: locke-essay_025-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_025-1695 date: 1695 words: 21693 flesch: 61 summary: The idea of power comes from the change of perceivable ideas in the mind. It is two-fold: active and passive. The clearest idea of active power had from spirit. God is above all passive power. Power includes a relation to action or change. keywords: ability; able; absent; action; active; agent; apt; best; bodies; body; capable; case; causes; certain; change; choice; consideration; constant; contrary; desire; determination; determined; different; end; evil; faculties; faculty; forbear; free; freedom; future; good; great; greater; greatest; hand; happiness; happy; ideas; indifferency; judge; judgment; liberty; life; like; little; man; men; mind; misery; mistake; motion; nature; necessary; necessity; pain; particular; place; pleasure; possible; power; preference; preferring; present; pursuit; question; reason; respect; rest; right; set; speaking; state; things; thinking; thought; time; true; understanding; uneasiness; use; view; viz; volition; voluntary; want; way; willing; wills; wrong cache: locke-essay_025-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_025-1695.txt item: #26 of 69 id: locke-essay_026-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_026-1695 date: 1695 words: 2893 flesch: 59 summary: Mixed modes are complex ideas made up of several simple ideas put together by the mind. The name "mixed mode" means a combination of simple ideas of different kinds. The mind often exercises an active power in making these several combinations, and it can make variety of complex ideas. keywords: action; combinations; complex; complex ideas; existence; ideas; man; men; mind; mixed; modes; names; power; simple; simple ideas; things; use; words cache: locke-essay_026-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_026-1695.txt item: #27 of 69 id: locke-essay_027-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_027-1695 date: 1695 words: 9439 flesch: 52 summary: In Chapter XXIII of our Complex Ideas of Substances, I explain how ideas of particular substances, how they are made, and how they relate to each other. I also explain how the idea of substance, in general, is a collection of simple ideas. keywords: bodies; body; capable; certain; clear; cohesion; colour; complex; complex ideas; corporeal; different; distinct; doubt; existence; extended; extension; god; great; having; ideas; immaterial; impulse; infinite; knowledge; man; matter; motion; particular; parts; power; pressure; primary; qualities; reflection; sensation; senses; sensible; simple; simple ideas; solid; sorts; spirit; substance; things; thinking cache: locke-essay_027-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_027-1695.txt item: #28 of 69 id: locke-essay_028-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_028-1695 date: 1695 words: 520 flesch: 46 summary: A collective idea is one idea made by the power of composing in the mind. Collective ideas of substances are made up of several distinct substances. They are artificial draughts of the mind, bringing things remote and independent on one another into one view. keywords: collective; idea; mind; substances cache: locke-essay_028-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_028-1695.txt item: #29 of 69 id: locke-essay_029-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_029-1695 date: 1695 words: 2111 flesch: 53 summary: In Chapter XXV of Relation, the author explains the concept of relation. He also explains the difference between absolute and relative terms. He explains the relation between different ideas and their relation to each other in the following chapters. keywords: caius; clear; distinct; father; ideas; man; mind; positive; relation; relative; simple; terms; things; v.g; words cache: locke-essay_029-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_029-1695.txt item: #30 of 69 id: locke-essay_030-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_030-1695 date: 1695 words: 1637 flesch: 57 summary: According to the theory of cause and effect, a simple idea, either an idea, substance, or mode, begin to be, and an effect is that which had its beginning from some other thing. Time and place are also the foundations of very large relations. keywords: cause; duration; effect; idea; man; minds; ordinary; relation; simple; substance; things; time; words cache: locke-essay_030-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_030-1695.txt item: #31 of 69 id: locke-essay_031-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_031-1695 date: 1695 words: 8923 flesch: 57 summary: Identity and diversity are relations and ways of comparing well founded. God is without beginning, eternal, unalterable, and everywhere. Finite spirits have their determinate time and place of beginning. The same will hold of every particle of matter. keywords: actions; animal; bodies; body; change; concerned; consciousness; continued; different; distinct; existence; great; idea; identity; immaterial; individual; life; little; man; matter; men; parrot; particles; parts; past; person; personal; place; present; prince; self; socrates; soul; spirit; substance; thing; thinking; thought; time; united cache: locke-essay_031-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_031-1695.txt item: #32 of 69 id: locke-essay_032-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_032-1695 date: 1695 words: 5013 flesch: 55 summary: There are ideas of proportional relations, natural relations, instituted relations, voluntary relations, and moral relations. They are related to each other by their origin, circumstances of their origin or beginning, and their relations with other people. They have different names in different countries. keywords: actions; clear; collection; conformity; country; different; disagreement; evil; fashion; god; good; ideas; law; laws; man; measure; men; moral; names; notion; particular; power; rectitude; relation; right; rule; simple; simple ideas; things; true; vice; virtue; word cache: locke-essay_032-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_032-1695.txt item: #33 of 69 id: locke-essay_033-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_033-1695 date: 1695 words: 4077 flesch: 58 summary: Some ideas are clear and distinct, others obscure and confused. Confusion of ideas is the confusion of ideas. Simple ideas are made up of simple ideas. Obscure ideas are dull organs or transient impressions made by the objects, or a weakness in the memory. keywords: clear; complex; confused; confusion; different; distinct; distinct idea; division; figure; ideas; infinite; man; mind; names; number; obscure; ones; order; parts; simple; things cache: locke-essay_033-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_033-1695.txt item: #34 of 69 id: locke-essay_034-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_034-1695 date: 1695 words: 1103 flesch: 56 summary: There are three types of ideas: real, fantastical and chimerical. Real ideas have a foundation in nature. Simple ideas are all real. Complex ideas are voluntary combinations of simple ideas put together, and they are not as real as the simple ideas. keywords: archetypes; complex; fantastical; ideas; real; reality; simple; substances; things cache: locke-essay_034-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_034-1695.txt item: #35 of 69 id: locke-essay_035-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_035-1695 date: 1695 words: 4018 flesch: 57 summary: There are two types of ideas: adequate and inadequate. Simple ideas are adequate because they are the effects of certain powers in things, fitted and ordained by God to produce sensations in us. Complex ideas of modes are adequate as they are collections of simple ideas without reference to archetypes. keywords: adequate; archetypes; body; complex; complex ideas; essence; figure; ideas; men; mind; modes; particular; powers; produce; properties; qualities; real; simple; substances; things cache: locke-essay_035-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_035-1695.txt item: #36 of 69 id: locke-essay_036-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_036-1695 date: 1695 words: 4542 flesch: 63 summary: In Chapter XXXII of True and False Ideas, the author explains the difference between true and false ideas. He explains that ideas are nothing but bare appearances, or perceptions in our minds, and they can only be said to be true or false by affirmation or negation. keywords: appearances; complex; essence; existence; false; falsehood; ideas; knowledge; man; men; mind; modes; names; real; reference; simple; substances; things; true; truth; use cache: locke-essay_036-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_036-1695.txt item: #37 of 69 id: locke-essay_037-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_037-1695 date: 1695 words: 3136 flesch: 58 summary: There is something unreasonable in most men. It is not from education or prejudice, but from the association of ideas. Some ideas have a natural correspondence and connexion one with another. Other ideas are created by chance or custom and are hard to separate. keywords: cause; connexion; custom; different; education; great; ideas; instance; little; madness; makes; man; men; mind; natural; nature; original; pain; person; reason; separate; thing; thought; time; truth; understanding cache: locke-essay_037-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_037-1695.txt item: #38 of 69 id: locke-essay_038-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_038-1695 date: 1695 words: 1001 flesch: 53 summary: Man is able to form articulate sounds, but this is not enough to produce language. It is necessary to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions, and to make them stand as marks for the ideas within a person's mind. Words derived from sensible ideas signify sensible ideas. keywords: general; ideas; language; names; sensible; signs; sounds; things; use; words cache: locke-essay_038-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_038-1695.txt item: #39 of 69 id: locke-essay_039-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_039-1695 date: 1695 words: 1760 flesch: 59 summary: The use of words is necessary for communication of ideas. Words stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of the speaker that uses them. A child uses the word gold for the colour of the peacock's tail and nothing else. Words are voluntary signs. keywords: certain; ideas; man; men; signification; signs; sounds; things; use; words cache: locke-essay_039-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_039-1695.txt item: #40 of 69 id: locke-essay_040-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_040-1695 date: 1695 words: 4960 flesch: 58 summary: The greatest part of words that make all languages are general terms. It is impossible that every particular thing should have a distinct peculiar name. A distinct name for every thing would not be of great use for the improvement of knowledge. Men learn names, and use them in talk with others only that they may be understood. keywords: abstract; abstract ideas; complex; constitution; different; distinct; essence; evident; general; genus; ideas; man; men; mind; names; particular; proper; real; signification; sorts; species; term; things; understanding; use; words cache: locke-essay_040-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_040-1695.txt item: #41 of 69 id: locke-essay_041-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_041-1695 date: 1695 words: 3418 flesch: 63 summary: The names of simple ideas, mixed modes, and natural substances have each something peculiar and different from the other. Simple ideas are undefinable, and the names of complex ideas are not. A definition is nothing more than the showing the meaning of one word by several other not synonymous terms. keywords: blind; colours; complex; definition; ideas; light; man; meaning; mind; mixed; modes; motion; names; signification; simple; simple ideas; substances; terms; use; word cache: locke-essay_041-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_041-1695.txt item: #42 of 69 id: locke-essay_042-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_042-1695 date: 1695 words: 4248 flesch: 57 summary: Mixed modes stand for abstract ideas. They are made by the mind arbitrarily and without reference to any real existence. The ideas of mixed modes are a voluntary collection of ideas, put together in the mind, independent from any original patterns in nature. keywords: abstract; complex; distinct; essences; existence; general; ideas; little; man; men; mind; mixed; mixed modes; modes; names; nature; patterns; real; reason; species; things; understanding; union cache: locke-essay_042-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_042-1695.txt item: #43 of 69 id: locke-essay_043-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_043-1695 date: 1695 words: 13953 flesch: 55 summary: The common names of substances stand for sorts. The essence of each sort is our abstract idea to which the name is annexed. The real essence is the constitution of the insensible parts of the body. Nothing is essential to individuals. Other creatures may be made with more and better faculties than I. keywords: abstract; abstract ideas; adam; animals; annexed; beings; body; boundaries; certain; colour; common; complex; complex idea; constitution; different; distinct; distinct species; distinguished; essence; essential; evident; general; gold; ideas; impossible; individual; internal; knowledge; language; making; man; matter; men; mind; modes; names; nature; new; nominal; nominal essence; number; particular; plain; precise; properties; qualities; real; real essence; reason; sense; sensible; shape; signification; simple; simple ideas; sort; species; specific; spirits; substances; supposed; things; true; use; words cache: locke-essay_043-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_043-1695.txt item: #44 of 69 id: locke-essay_044-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_044-1695 date: 1695 words: 1043 flesch: 63 summary: Particles are used to signify the connexion that the mind gives to ideas, or propositions, one with another. In the right use of particles consists the art of well-speaking. They show the relation of the mind to its own thoughts. keywords: great; ideas; language; mind; names; particles; thoughts; use; words cache: locke-essay_044-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_044-1695.txt item: #45 of 69 id: locke-essay_045-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_045-1695 date: 1695 words: 730 flesch: 54 summary: The difference between abstract and concrete terms shows the difference of our ideas. The Roman Schools introduced animalitas, humanitas, corporietas, and some others, but they did not use the real names for the ideas they were trying to describe. keywords: abstract; concrete; difference; essence; ideas; man; names; substances cache: locke-essay_045-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_045-1695.txt item: #46 of 69 id: locke-essay_046-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_046-1695 date: 1695 words: 6007 flesch: 55 summary: In Chapter IX of the Imperfection of Words, the author explains why some words are doubtful and uncertain in their significations. He explains the difference between the civil and philosophical use of words and the difference of ideas they stand for. keywords: colour; common; complex; different; doubtful; gold; great; ideas; imperfection; language; liable; meaning; men; mind; mixed; modes; names; nature; notions; philosophical; precise; qualities; real; reason; signification; simple; stand; standards; substances; things; thoughts; true; uncertain; use; words cache: locke-essay_046-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_046-1695.txt item: #47 of 69 id: locke-essay_047-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_047-1695 date: 1695 words: 7786 flesch: 60 summary: There are several faults and neglects in the use of words. Words are often employed without clear and distinct ideas. Some words are introduced without clear ideas annexed to them, even in their first original. Other words, to which ideas were annexed at first, are used afterwards without distinct meanings. keywords: abuse; body; certain; clear; common; complex; different; discourse; distinct; essence; extension; gold; great; hard; hath; ideas; imperfection; knowledge; known; language; learning; life; little; man; matter; meaning; men; minds; modes; names; nature; notions; obscurity; plain; precise; real; signification; signs; sounds; species; stand; substances; terms; things; truth; use; way; whereof; words; world cache: locke-essay_047-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_047-1695.txt item: #48 of 69 id: locke-essay_048-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_048-1695 date: 1695 words: 6401 flesch: 56 summary: There are many inconveniences of the imperfections of languages, but there are also remedies for them. Misuse of words is the great cause of errors. Unconventional use of words makes people more conceited and obstinate. keywords: bat; bird; clear; common; complex; definition; discourses; distinct; great; ideas; knowledge; known; language; little; man; meaning; men; mind; mixed; modes; moral; names; natural; necessary; obscurity; precise; qualities; remedy; sense; signification; simple; simple ideas; sort; stand; substances; terms; things; truth; use; way; words cache: locke-essay_048-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_048-1695.txt item: #49 of 69 id: locke-essay_049-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_049-1695 date: 1695 words: 2135 flesch: 63 summary: Knots are the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas. There are four kinds of agreement and disagreement: identity, diversity, relationship, co-existence, and real existence. The first is the first act of the mind, when it has any sentiments or ideas. keywords: agreement; disagreement; equal; existence; ideas; knowledge; mind; perception; proposition; right; triangle; true; truth cache: locke-essay_049-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_049-1695.txt item: #50 of 69 id: locke-essay_050-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_050-1695 date: 1695 words: 3381 flesch: 53 summary: The different degrees of clearness of our knowledge lie in the different way of perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas. Intuitive knowledge is the clearest and most certain that human frailty is capable of. The next degree of knowledge is demonstrative, where the mind perceives the agreement of ideas but not immediately. keywords: agreement; angles; capable; certain; certainty; clear; clearness; degrees; demonstration; different; disagreement; equality; evidence; ideas; intuitive; knowledge; light; mind; number; perception; whiteness cache: locke-essay_050-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_050-1695.txt item: #51 of 69 id: locke-essay_051-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_051-1695 date: 1695 words: 9668 flesch: 52 summary: Koncerning the Extent of Human Knowledge, it follows that knowledge extends no further than the perception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas. Intuitive knowledge extends itself not to all the relations of all our ideas. Sensitive knowledge is narrower than rational knowledge and demonstrative knowledge. keywords: able; agreement; beings; bodies; body; capable; cause; certain; certainty; complex; conceive; connexion; demonstration; different; disagreement; distinct; existence; experience; extent; figure; general; great; ideas; ignorance; ignorant; knowledge; little; man; matter; mind; motion; nature; necessary; operations; particular; parts; powers; primary; qualities; reach; reason; remote; secondary; senses; sensible; simple; sort; spirits; subject; substances; things; thinking; thought; want; way; world cache: locke-essay_051-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_051-1695.txt item: #52 of 69 id: locke-essay_052-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_052-1695 date: 1695 words: 4897 flesch: 66 summary: All knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of our own ideas. Simple ideas are the product of things operating on the mind, in a natural way, and produce perceptions which by the Wisdom and Will of our Maker they are ordained and adapted to. All complex ideas are their own archetypes. keywords: agreement; archetypes; beast; certainty; changelings; complex; existence; figure; ideas; knowledge; life; little; man; mind; moral; names; nature; rational; real; reality; shape; simple; soul; species; substances; things; thoughts; true; truth cache: locke-essay_052-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_052-1695.txt item: #53 of 69 id: locke-essay_053-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_053-1695 date: 1695 words: 2148 flesch: 63 summary: Truth is the right joining or separating of signs, i.e. ideas and words. Truth is a mental proposition. It is difficult to distinguish between mental and verbal propositions. Most people use words instead of ideas in their thinking and reasoning. keywords: agreement; ideas; knowledge; mental; mind; propositions; real; signs; things; truth; use; verbal; words cache: locke-essay_053-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_053-1695.txt item: #54 of 69 id: locke-essay_054-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_054-1695 date: 1695 words: 5106 flesch: 51 summary: The Treatise of Knowledge is about the truth and certainty of universal propositions. It is also about the difference between the real and the nominal essence of a proposition and the abstract idea which it stands for. The real essence of each species is unknown and undetermined. keywords: abstract; bodies; body; certainty; colour; complex; connexion; essence; general; gold; ideas; knowledge; little; motion; names; necessary; nominal; propositions; qualities; real; simple; species; stand; substances; things; truth; universal; way cache: locke-essay_054-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_054-1695.txt item: #55 of 69 id: locke-essay_055-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_055-1695 date: 1695 words: 7554 flesch: 58 summary: Maxims and axioms are self-evident propositions. The self-evidence consists in the perception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas. All propositions are equally true. The difference of ideas, as soon as they are understood, makes the truth of the proposition visible. keywords: axioms; body; certain; different; distinct; equal; evidence; evident; general; general maxims; great; ideas; impossible; knowledge; known; man; maxims; men; mind; particular; parts; principles; proof; propositions; reason; sciences; self; terms; thing; true; truth; use; words cache: locke-essay_055-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_055-1695.txt item: #56 of 69 id: locke-essay_056-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_056-1695 date: 1695 words: 3723 flesch: 57 summary: Some propositions bring no increase to our knowledge. An ignorant person can make a million propositions without any real knowledge. The foundation of all our knowledge lies in the faculty of perceiving the same idea to be the same and discerning it from the different. keywords: body; certain; certainty; complex; gold; great; hath; idea; identical; instructive; knowledge; man; propositions; real; signification; soul; term; things; trifling; truth; use; verbal; word cache: locke-essay_056-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_056-1695.txt item: #57 of 69 id: locke-essay_057-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_057-1695 date: 1695 words: 415 flesch: 59 summary: There are general propositions that concern not existence. We have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition, of the existence of God by demonstration and of other things by sensation. We are conscious to ourselves of our being in every act of sensation, reasoning or thinking. keywords: certain; existence; knowledge; things cache: locke-essay_057-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_057-1695.txt item: #58 of 69 id: locke-essay_058-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_058-1695 date: 1695 words: 4665 flesch: 59 summary: There is a God. Man knows that he exists. Nothing can produce a being, so something must have existed from eternity. God is the most powerful and most knowing being. There was a time when there was no knowing being, and when knowledge began to be. keywords: beings; certain; cogitative; conceive; creation; eternal; eternity; evident; existence; god; impossible; knowing; knowledge; man; material; matter; mind; motion; particle; parts; perception; power; reason; rest; thing; thinking; thought; truth cache: locke-essay_058-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_058-1695.txt item: #59 of 69 id: locke-essay_059-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_059-1695 date: 1695 words: 3813 flesch: 56 summary: The knowledge of the existence of other finite beings is to be had only by actual sensation. It is the actual receiving of ideas from without that gives us notice of other things' existence. This notice by our senses, though not so certain as demonstration, may be called knowledge. keywords: abstract; actual; assurance; certain; certainty; doth; doubt; existence; faculties; god; great; ideas; knowledge; man; memory; mind; pain; pleasure; propositions; senses; things; true cache: locke-essay_059-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_059-1695.txt item: #60 of 69 id: locke-essay_060-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_060-1695 date: 1695 words: 4412 flesch: 52 summary: Maxims are not the foundation of all knowledge. The great advancement and certainty of real knowledge in the sciences was not due to the influence of maxims, but from the clear, distinct, complete ideas their thoughts were employed about. Knowledge began in the mind and was founded on particulars. keywords: abstract; bigger; bodies; body; certain; certainty; clear; complex; doubt; equals; experience; finger; general; great; ideas; knowledge; little; mathematics; maxims; men; names; natural; nature; nominal; principles; properties; real; science; thoughts; truth; use; way cache: locke-essay_060-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_060-1695.txt item: #61 of 69 id: locke-essay_061-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_061-1695 date: 1695 words: 875 flesch: 58 summary: In Chapter XIII of the book "Some Further Considerations Concerning our Knowledge" the author explains that knowledge is partly necessary, partly voluntary. Men that have senses cannot choose but receive some ideas by them, and if they have memory, they cannot but retain some of them. What a man does see, he cannot see otherwise than he does, and what he perceives, he can only know that he sees. keywords: eyes; ideas; knowledge; man; men; voluntary cache: locke-essay_061-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_061-1695.txt item: #62 of 69 id: locke-essay_062-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_062-1695 date: 1695 words: 728 flesch: 56 summary: Judgment is the faculty of the mind that supplies our want of clear and certain knowledge. The mind exercises this faculty out of necessity, where demonstrative proof and knowledge are not to be had, and sometimes out of laziness, unskilfulness, or haste. keywords: certain; disagreement; ideas; judgment; knowledge; mind; state; things cache: locke-essay_062-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_062-1695.txt item: #63 of 69 id: locke-essay_063-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_063-1695 date: 1695 words: 1429 flesch: 59 summary: Probability is the appearance of agreement upon fallible proofs. It is likeliness to be true, the notation of the word signifying such a proposition, for which there are arguments or proofs to make it pass, or be received for true. Faith is the belief, assent, or opinion based on arguments or proof that persuade us to receive it as true without certain knowledge. keywords: agreement; assent; certain; experience; grounds; knowledge; man; probability; proposition; testimony; true cache: locke-essay_063-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_063-1695.txt item: #64 of 69 id: locke-essay_064-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_064-1695 date: 1695 words: 4527 flesch: 53 summary: According to the chapter XVI of the Confessions of Socrates, the degree of assent is regulated by the grounds of probability. It is impossible for a man to keep all the evidence in his memory, so that he can be persuaded of several opinions. The greatest part of men are sceptic and change their mind every moment. keywords: assent; capable; case; certain; degree; different; doubt; evidence; experience; fact; great; grounds; knowledge; like; little; man; matter; men; nature; observation; opinions; particular; parts; probability; probable; proofs; question; reason; revelation; right; testimony; things; truth cache: locke-essay_064-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_064-1695.txt item: #65 of 69 id: locke-essay_065-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_065-1695 date: 1695 words: 8483 flesch: 57 summary: There are four degrees of reason: the first and highest is the discovering and finding out of truths, the second is the regular and methodical disposition of them, the third is the perceiving their connexion, and the fourth, a making a right conclusion. keywords: agreement; argumentation; argumentum; assent; better; certain; clear; conclusion; connexion; demonstration; disagreement; doubt; extremes; faculty; force; forms; god; great; helps; ideas; inference; intermediate; judgment; knowledge; little; man; men; mind; need; order; probability; probable; proofs; proposition; reason; reasoning; right; syllogism; things; thought; true; truth; use; view; way cache: locke-essay_065-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_065-1695.txt item: #66 of 69 id: locke-essay_066-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_066-1695 date: 1695 words: 3384 flesch: 52 summary: Faith and reason are two different types of knowledge. Faith is the assent to any proposition, not made out by the deductions of reason, but on the credit of the proposer. Revelation is the discovery of the certainty or probability of propositions or truths. Words, by their immediate operation on us, cause no other ideas but of their natural sounds. Words excite and revive latent ideas but only such ideas as were there before. keywords: assent; clear; divine; evidence; faculties; faith; god; ideas; knowledge; man; matter; mind; natural; principles; proposition; reason; revelation; things; truth; use cache: locke-essay_066-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_066-1695.txt item: #67 of 69 id: locke-essay_067-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_067-1695 date: 1695 words: 4189 flesch: 61 summary: Love of truth is necessary for the search of truth. Enthusiasm is a force that takes away reason and revelation from the mind. The forwardness to dictate another's beliefs is a corruption of our judgments. Immediate revelation is easier for men to establish their opinions and regulate their conduct. keywords: assent; authority; divine; enthusiasm; evidence; god; knowledge; light; love; man; men; mind; natural; persuasion; proofs; proposition; reason; revelation; spirit; strength; sure; true; truth; way cache: locke-essay_067-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_067-1695.txt item: #68 of 69 id: locke-essay_068-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_068-1695 date: 1695 words: 5444 flesch: 57 summary: There are four causes of wrong assent: want of proofs, want of ability to use them, lack of will to see them, wrong measures of probability and contrariety of opinions. The greatest part of mankind is ignorant of those things which are of greatest importance to them. keywords: arguments; assent; authority; cases; cause; certain; clear; common; contrary; error; evidence; great; greatest; hath; ignorance; inquiry; knowledge; like; man; mankind; matter; means; measures; men; minds; opinions; power; principles; probabilities; probability; probable; proofs; received; things; true; truth; understandings; use; want; way; words; world; wrong cache: locke-essay_068-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_068-1695.txt item: #69 of 69 id: locke-essay_069-1695 author: locke title: locke-essay_069-1695 date: 1695 words: 667 flesch: 60 summary: In Chapter XXI of the Division of the Sciences, the author explains the division of science into three types: Physica, Praktike and Semeiotike, and Logike. The philosophy of Phusike is the study of the nature of things, God, angels, spirits, bodies, and their affections. Logike deals with the doctrine of signs. keywords: end; knowledge; man; mind; signs; things; understanding; use cache: locke-essay_069-1695.txt plain text: locke-essay_069-1695.txt