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18. Real and nominal essence

the same in simple ideas
and modes, different in
substances.

19. Essences ingenerable and
incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

CHAP. V.

Of the names of mixed modes and
relations.

SECT.

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qualities, which are known
but imperfectly.

15. With this imperfection
they may serve for civil,
but not well for philoso-
phical use.

16. Instance, liquor of the

1. Abuse of words.
2, 3. First, words without any,
or without clear ideas.
4. Occasioned by learning
names, before the ideas
they belong to.
5. Secondly, a steady appli
cation of them.
6. Thirdly, affected obscu-
rity, by wrong applica

tion.

7. Logic and dispute have

much contributed to this.

8. Calling it subtilty.

9. This learning very little

benefits society.

10. But destroys the instru

ments of knowledge and

communication.

11. As useful as to confound

the sound of the letters.

12. This

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