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when both are plung'd into it , one 

 of them (hall have been newly held 

 to the fire, and the other be benum- 

 med with froft. And indeed the 

 cuftom of fpeaking has introduced 

 an ambiguity into the word Coldj 

 which often occafions miftakes, not 

 eafily without much attention and 

 fometimes circumlocution alfo to be 

 avoided i fince ufually by Gold is 

 meant that which immediately af- 

 fe&s the fenfory of him that pro- 

 nounces a body Cold, whereas fome- 

 times 'tis taken in a more general 

 notion for fuch a Negation or Immi* 

 nution of motion , as though it a- 

 perates not perceivably on our fen- 

 fes, does yet upon other bodies J and 

 fometimes alfo it is taken (which 

 is perhaps the more Philofophical 

 fenfe) for a perception, made in 

 and by the mind , of the alteration 

 produced in the Corporeal Organs 

 by the operation of that, whatever 

 it be, on whofe account a body is 

 found to be cold. 



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