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 CHAP. III. 



OF IDEAS. 



Ideas of Senfation and Reflexion. Simple and (omfkx. Modes anil 

 Sulftances, 



IDEAS being the images of impreffions, want 

 their force and vivacity, ift, Ideas of fenfation 

 are the mere reprefentations of effects wrought on 

 the fenfes. idly, We give names to the particular 

 actions of our own minds, as perception, thinking, 

 doubting, reafoning, and thefe Mr. Locke calls ideas 

 of reflection *. 



It is probable many of our firft ideas are com- 

 plex, that is, the refult of feveral fenfations com- 

 bined or united together. A child will hardly dif- 

 tinguifli between the figure and colour j as in a glafs 

 globe, it will have the idea of the globe itfelf, before 

 it will diftinguifii between the roundnefs and the 

 brightness of which it is compounded ; they are never- 

 thelefs as diftinct ideas as fweetnels and hardnefs, 

 y.hich may exift in the fame fubftance, and one of 

 them not be perceived as united with the other. 

 " Though the hand feels foftnefs and warmth in the 

 fame piece of wax, yet the fimple ideas in the fame fubject 

 are as perfectly diftinct as thofe that come in by dif- 

 tinct fenfes." Simple ideas will be recollected in 

 objects differing in every refpecVbut that one, from 

 thofe by which we originally received them. Though 

 a horfe, for inftance, may poffefs no obvious quality 



* Locke, B. 2. c. 2. 



