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OF TRUE AND FALSE IDEAS.

1. Truth and falsehood properly belongs to propositions.
2. Metaphysical truth contains a tacit proposition.

1. Something unreasonable in most men.

2. Not wholly from self-love.

3. Nor from education.

4. A degree of madness.

5. From a wrong connexion of ideas.

6. This connexion how made.

7, 8. Some antipathies an effect of it.
9. A great cause of errors.

10-12. Instances.

SECT.

BOOK III.

OF WORDS.

OF WORDS OR LANGUAGE IN GENERAL.

1. Words are sensible signs necessary for communication.

2, 3. Words are the sensible signs of his ideas who uses them.

4. Words often secretly referred, first, to the ideas in other

men's minds.

5. Secondly, to the reality of things.
6. Words by use readily excite ideas.
7. Words often used without signification.
8. Their signification perfectly arbitrary.

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3, 4. And useless.

5. What things have proper names.

6-8. How general words are made.

9. General natures are nothing but abstract ideas.

10. Why the genus is ordinarily made use of in definitions.
11. General and universal are creatures of the understanding.
12. Abstract ideas are the essences of the genera and species.
13. They are the workmanship of the understanding, but have
their foundation in the similitude of things.

14. Each distinct abstract idea is a distinct essence.

15. Real and nominal essence.

18. Real and nominal essence the same in simple ideas and
modes, different in substances.

19. Essences ingenerable and incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

10, 11. In mixed modes, it is the name that ties the combination
together, and makes it a species.

12. For the originals of mixed modes, we look no farther than
the mind, which also shows them to be the workmanship
of the understanding.

13. Their being made by the understanding without patterns,
shows the reason why they are so compounded.

14. Names of mixed modes stand always for their real essences.
15. Why their names are usually got before their ideas.
16. Reason of my being so large on this subject.

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