...Substance in general. — So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it...asked, what is the subject wherein colour or weight inheres, he would have nothing to say, but the solid extended parts ; and if he were demanded what...

...Clerc's empiricist logic is pervaded by what can be called maintained that a man neral 'but only a Supch Qualities, which are capable of producing simple Ideas...us; which Qualities are commonly called Accidents'. 44 In a very similar vein Le Clerc describes substances as 'I do not know what unknown subjects, in...

...call substance. ... So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it...'accidents.' If any one should be asked . . . 'What is it that solidity and extension inhere in,' he woidd not be in a much better case than the Indian before...

...result" (II. xxiii. 1), but when anyone enquires into the kind of notion he has of this substratum, "he will find he has no other Idea of it at all, but...which are capable of producing simple Ideas in us" (II. xxiii. 2). The only idea of substance that we have is therefore a purely relative one; we have...

...Essay, quoted in full: So that if any one will examine himself concerning his Notion of pure Substance in general, he will find he has no other Idea of it...asked, what is the subject wherein Colour or Weight inheres, he would have nothing to say, but the solid extended parts: And if he were demanded, what...