1. Adequate ideas are fuch as perfectly represent their archetypes.

2. Simple ideas all adequate.

3. Modes are all adequate. 4, 5. Modes in reference to fettled names, may be inadequate.

6, 7. Ideas of fubftances, as referred to real effences, not adequate. 8-11. Ideas of fubftances, as collections of their quali ties, are all inadequate. 12. Simple ideas ïxtura, and adequate.

13. Ideas of fubftances are

Tuna, and inadequate. 14. Ideas of modes and relations are archetypes, and cannot but be adequate.

13. As referred to real exiftences, none of our ideas can be falfe, but those of fubftances.

14, 16. First, fimple ideas in this fenfe not falfe, and why.

15. Though one man's idea of blue fhould be different from another's.

17. Secondly,

Modes not

falfe. 18. Thirdly, Ideas of fubftances, when falfe.

19. Truth or falsehood always fuppofes affirmation or negation.

20. Ideas in themfelves neither true nor falfe, 21. But are falfe, Firft, when judged agreeable to another man's idea without being fo.

22. Secondly, When judged to agree to real existence, when they do not....

23. Thirdly, When judged adequate without being fo. 24. Fourthly.

10. Why the genus is ordina-

rily made ufe of in defini-

tions.

11. General and univerfal are

creatures of the under-

standing.

12. Abstract ideas are the ef-

fences of the genera and

fpecies.

13. They are the workmanship

of the understanding, but

have their foundation in

the fimilitude of things.

14. Each diftinct abstract idea

is a diftinct effence.

15. Real and nominal effence.

16. Conftant connexion be-

tween the name and no-

minal effence.

17. Suppofition, that fpecies

are diftinguifhed by their

real effences, useless.

18. Real and nominal effence

the fame in fimple ideas

and modes, different in

substances.

19. Effences ingenerable and

incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

CHA P. IV.

Of the names of fimple ideas.

SECT.

1. Names of fimple ideas,

modes, and fubftances, have

each fomething peculiar.

2. First, Names of fimple ideas
and fubftances, intimate
real existence.

3. Secondly, Names of fimple
ideas and modes fignify al
ways both real and nominal
effence.

4. Thirdly, Names of fimple

ideas undefinable.

5. If all were definable, it

would be a process in infi-

nitum.

6. What a definition is.

7. Simple ideas, why undefi-
nable.

8, 9. Inftances, motion.
10. Light.

1. They ftand for abstract ideas

as other general names.

2. First, The ideas they stand

for are made by the under-

ftanding.

3. Secondly, made arbitrarily,

and without patterns.

4. How this is done.

5. Evidently arbitrary, in that

the idea is often before the

existence...

6. Inftances, murther, inceft,

ftabbing.

7. But ftill fubfervient to the

end of language.

8. Whereof the intranflatable
words of divers languages
are a proof.

9. This fhows fpecies to be
made for communication.
10, 11. In mixed modes, it is the
name that ties the combi-

nation together, and makes
it a fpecies.

12. For the originals of mixed

modes, we look no farther

than the mind, which also

fhows them to be the work-
manship of the understand-
ing.
13. Their being made by the
understanding without pat-

terns,

which we know lefs. 11. That the nominal effence is that whereby we diftinguish fpecies, farther evident from fpirits.

12. Whereof there are probably numberless fpecies.

13. The nominal effence that of the fpecies, proved from water and ice.

14-18. Difficulties against a certain number of real effences. 19. Our nominal effences of fubftances, not perfect collections of properties.

21. But fuch a collection as our name ftands for.

22. Our abstract ideas are to us

the measure of fpecies. Inftances in that of man. 23. Species not diftinguished by generation,

24. Not by fubftantial forms. 25. The specific effences are made by the mind.

26, 27. Therefore very various and uncertain.

28. But not fo arbitrary as
mixed modes.

29. Though very imperfect.
30. Which yet ferve for com-
mon converse.

31. But make several effences
fignified by the fame name.
32. The more general our ideas
are, the more incomplete
and partial they are.
33. This all accommodated to
the end of speech.
34. Inftance in caffuaris.
35. Men make the species. In-
ftance gold.

36. Though nature makes the
fimilitude.

37. And continues it in the races of things.

38. Each abstract idea is an effence.

39. Genera and fpecies are in order to naming. Inftance, watch.

40. Species of artificial things lefs confufed than natural. 41. Artificial things of diftinct fpecies.

42. Subftances alone have pro