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Excerpt from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Vol. 2 of 3 Though I am forced to differ from him in those apprehensions he has expressed in the latter cod'cf his preface, concerning what I had said about virtue and vice; yet we are better agreed than he thinks, in what he says in his third chapter, p. 78, concerning natural in scription and 1unate notions. I shall not deny him the privilege he claims, p. 52. To state the quest1on as he pleases, especially when he states it so, as to leave nothing in 1t contrary to what I have said for, according to him, innate notions being cond1t10nal things, de pending upon the concurrence of several other circumstances, in or der to the soul's exerting them; all that he says for innate, imprint ed, ' impressed notions (for of innate ideas he says nothing at all) amounts at last only to this that there are certain propomtions, which though the soul from the begmnmg, or when a man is born, does not know, yet by assistance from the outward senses, and the help of some previous cultivation, it may afterwards come certainly to know the truth of which is no more than what I have affirmed in my first book. For I suppose by the soul's exerting them, he means its beginning to know them, or else the soul's exerting of notions will be to me a very unintellig1ble expression and I think at best is a very unfit one in this case, 1t misleading men's thoughts by an insinuation, as if these notions were in the mind before the soul exerts them, i. E. Before they are known: whereas truly before they are known, there is nothip'g of them in the mind; but a capacity to know them, when the concurrence of those circumstances, which this ingenious author thinks necessary in order to the soul's exerting them, brings them into our knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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