PHIL 262 Lecture 20: PHIL-262,University of Arizona,Textbook(p20)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 262
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Mixed modes are made by the understanding, very arbitrarily without pattern. Made for communication, the chief end of language. The use of language is by short, sounds to signify with ease and dispatch general conceptions: a great variety of independant ideas collected into one complex one. Mixed modes are the workmanship of understanding. Common names of substances stands for sorts - the being made signs of such complex ideas; particular substances are able to be comprehended by one name. Essence boundary of each sort whereby it is constituted that particular sort, and distinguished from others abstract idea to which a name is annexed. Nominal essence to distinguish it from that real cogitation of substances. Real essence all the properties of that sort.