PHIL 262 Lecture 19: PHIL-262,University of Arizona,Textbook(p19)
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Real, but unknown constitution of their insensible parts that flow from sensible qualities that cause us to do"s tonight"s them from one another into common denominations. Impossible for two things with the same essence to possess different properties. Real and nominal essence the same in simple ideas and modes, different in substances. Real - constitution of insensible parts color, weight) Words signify nothing immediately except in the minds of the speaker. Names of simple ideas and substances with the abstract ideas in the mind that immediately signify intimate some real existence from which they derived their original pattern. Names of simple ideas and modes signify always both real and nominal essence. Definition - showing the meaning of one word by several other synonyms (not a good definition) Mixed modes stands for ideas that are perfectly arbitrary. Simple modes differ little from simple ideas. Mixed mode and relations stand for abstract ideas.