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the notion e%preifed,hath but an accidental! connexion with the 

 other notions,that are in the thing unexprefled : as for example ; 

 it is meerely accidcntall to the white wall as it is white, to be high 

 orlow,offtone,of plafter,or the like. Butotherwhilcs,the ex- 

 preffed notion is fo eflentiall to the concealed ones,that they can- 

 not be without it: as when we apprehend a cloven foot, al- 

 though this apprehenfion doe abftract from all other notions be- 

 fides clovenfootedneffe ( if fo I may fay) yet, (as above we have de- 

 clared) it is infuch a manner, that itimplyeth other conliderati- 

 ns,not yet expreffcd, in that cloven foot : among which, fome 

 may be of that nature,that they cannot have a Being without prc- 

 fuppofing clovenfootedncfle ; but others may be meerly acciden- 

 tal! to that notion : as (Tor inltance fakej let one be, that the foot 

 if cloven into three parts - t and let another be, that it it blacker 

 hairie ; of th*fe,this late r notion of black or htirie, is of the Hrft 

 kindofabftradlionSjWhich we faid had but an accidentall conne- 

 xion with that which comprehended them without exprefling 

 them : for other things befides the cloven foot,, may be black c r 

 hairie ; in fuch fort as height or lowiieffc, to be of ftone or of pla- 

 fter,may belong unto other ftraftures befides the white wall : but 

 to be cloven footed into three parts , doth fo neceflarily depend of 

 being cloven footed in general!, (which implyeththisparticularj 

 and fo diredly includeth it,as it cannot fubfift vj\thc>\&clovenfoot- 

 H/4*ejfe:fat though we may conceive a foot to be cloven, without 

 determining in our apprehenfion, into how many toes it is clo- 

 ven ; yet we cannot conceive it to have three, foure, or five tots, 

 without appre hending it to be cloven : fo that in fuch like appre- 

 henfions, the notion which is expreffcd , is fo eflentiall to the no- 

 tion that is concealed and added unto it, as the concealed one 

 cannot be conceived without theexprefledone and whenfoe- 

 ver it is mentioned, the other is neccffarily alfo brought in, and 

 affirmed with it. 



Now, fome of thefc later kinds of notions, (in which what is I2< 

 cxpn fled is eflentialto what is concealed)may be of fuch a nature Ofuniverfall 

 as to be capable of receiving the addition of fundry other notions, notions. 

 fo repugnant unto one another,that they cannot agree together in 

 one fubjcft;& yet that general! notion,without determining any 

 of the othcrs,be indifferent to the contrary additions that include 

 it,and belong as much to any one, as to any other of them : and 



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