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Neceffary to be proved that Generals exifi — That NeceJJtty ozving to 

 the total ignorance of antient Philofophy — That there are Ideas 

 exijling fomeivhere^ and particularly in the Divine Mind — Whether 

 they exijl in the Human Mind^ a ^eftion of FaSi — The Confufion of 

 Senfe and Imagination ivith Intelle^^ the Ground of the Error of the 

 Materialifis on this Point. — No Science vuithout ideas — Neither Defi- 

 nition nor Demonflration of Individuals, 



BU T, before I proceed to thofe obfervatlons, It will be proper to 

 fhow that the Categories have an exiftence ; for, if it be true 

 that there is no fuch thing as intellect, and that there is no difference 

 betwixt fenfations and ideas, except in the degree of the impreffion that 

 they make upon the mind, according to the philofophy of the author 

 of the Effays^ then there is no fuch thing exifting as generals, nor, by 

 confequence, categories, or predicaments, which are no other than the 

 moft general ideas. Whereas, on the other hand, if it be proved that we 

 have the conception of generals, it is, I hope, made fufficiently evi- 

 dent, in the preceeding chapter, that there is a progrefs in the mind 

 from lefs general to more general, till we come to what is moft ge- 

 neral of all, or univerfal, that is, the categories. 



That there {hould be any difpute upon this fubjed, muft appear 

 very wonderful to thofe who have ftudied the philofophy of Plato and 



S s Ariftotle ; 



