loS ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



CHAP. VU. 



PhiJofoPhy of the Human Mind founded upon the preceding Hijiory of 

 if — Smgle and complex Apprehenfio7i—Co?nhination of Propofitions^or 

 Syliogifm — DiJIin^ion hetivixt the Operations of the Mind upon Sub-^ 



jecls ivithout the Mind and 'U'ithin it — Di/ltnSfionberwixt the Gno- 

 ftic and Oreaic Faculties of the Mind — This Diflinclion not properly 



fluted by the Commentators upon Ariflotle — Only tivo Gnojlic Facul- 

 ties, Senfe and Intelled — Different meanings of the ivord ^cwk — 

 Ihe Mind AOiWe as ivell as Paffive in Perceptions of Senje — The Per- 

 ceptions of the ObjeSls of Senfe, by the means of the Phantafia — Of 

 InteHeSl — // percei'ves Ideas either ftngle, or in combination — Of 

 Reafoning — Science and Opinion — Explication of all the different 

 Words ujed upon the SubjeSl of Mind — Of the Operation of Intellect in 

 Abftradion. 



IN the preceding chapter, I have only delivered a plain hlftory of 

 the operations of the human mind, which I propofe to make the 

 ground-work of the philofophy of it, which is to be the fubjed of 

 this chapter. 



And I begin with the dinin£lion with Vx^hich Ariftotle begins his 

 lo"-ical works, 'viz. the diftindion betwixt fingle apprehenftons and com- 

 plex^ \ a dilVmclion, which is evident from the account above given 

 of the operations of the human mind. By fmgle apprehenfon, I 

 me.m the apprehe^ifion of a fingle thing ; by complex apprehenfion, I 

 mean the apprehenfion of things in combination ; that is, when they 



are 



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iiKf. Categoiiae, cap. 2. 



