10 ATREATISE 



notions: for comparing it to different things,we (hall meet with 

 different refpects between them ; and confcquently,we ftial con- 

 fider the fame thing,under different notionsus when we confider 

 an apple,under the notions of greennefle, of fweetnefle, of round- 

 neflc: of mello wnefle,&c. in fuch fort,as we have amply declared 

 in the firR:Trcatife,and therefore need not here enlarge our felves 

 any further upon this particular. Now thefe notions are fo obfo- 

 lutely fevered one from another, and every one of them hath fuch 

 a compleatnefle within it"felte,that we may ufc any one of them, 

 without medling at all with any of the others. And this we doe 

 two feverall wayes : the one, when our manner of apprchenfion 

 determineth us to one precife notion, which is fo ftimmed up 

 within it fclfe, as it not'onely abftraclcth from all other notions, 

 but alfo quite excludeth them, and admitted no fociety with 

 them. The other way is, when we confider a thing under a deter-; 

 ininatenotion,yet\vedoeitinfuchamanner, that although we 

 abftrad from all other notions, ncverthelefie we doe fo, rather by 

 neglecting then by excluding them : and even in the manner of 

 our expreflion of it, weinfinuate that there are other notions 

 (without fpecifying what) belonging unto it. 



Of the fitft kind of notions, are whiteneffc , weight, heaf, 

 and fuch like, (whofe names are called ab$r*&t4 termes) 

 which although they arife out of our comparing of the things 

 that are white, heavy, hot, &c. to our fantafie, or to othtr 

 things ; yet thefe notions are fo precife, and (hut up within 

 themfelves, that they abfolutely exclude all others, (asoflong, 

 {hurt, fquare, rough, (harp, or whatfocver dfe) which may in 

 the things accompany the whitencffe, weight, heat, &c. that our 

 confederation is then bufied only withall. Of the fecond kind of 

 abftrafled notions,are white, heavy,hor, &c. ( whofe names, ex- 

 preffing them, are called concrete terines:) which although they 

 caufe in us no other apprehenfions then of whitenefle, of weight, 

 of heat,&c. yet they arc not fo rigoroufly paled in, as the others 

 are, from admitting fociety with any bcfides ; but doe imply ta- 

 citely,that the thing which 'is white,heavy,hot, &c. hath befides 

 ^ that, fomc other confideration belonging unto it Cwhatfoever it 

 be) which is not exprefled. 



No win this later abftradion, it happeneth fometimes, that 



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