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I readily agree with this learned author, that the faculties of brutes can by no means attain to abstraction. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. I answer, when words are used without a meaning, you may put them together as you please without danger of running into a contradiction. In man indeed a thrifty management of those things which he cannot procure without much pains and industry may be esteemed wisdom. Using NetDetective you can find everything about Vicky Rene. His answer is: "Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas. Since therefore the objects of sense exist only in the mind, and are withal thoughtless and inactive, I chose to mark them by the word idea, which implies those properties. Hence, the knowledge I have of other spirits is not immediate, as is the knowledge of my ideas; but depending on the intervention of ideas, by me referred to agents or spirits distinct from myself, as effects or concomitant signs. Nothing can be plainer than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature) cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance; such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature; that is to say, "the soul of man is naturally immortal." The ideas of Sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those of the imagination; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series, the admirable connexion whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author. Vicky Rene you can find here. Now I desire that you would explain to me what is meant by Matter's supporting extension. What therefore becomes of the sun, moon and stars? In short, whatever advances have been made, either by ancient or modern philosophers, in the study of nature do all proceed on the supposition that corporeal substance or Matter doth really exist. Qualities, as hath been shewn, are nothing else but sensations or ideas, which exist only in a mind perceiving them; and this is true not only of the ideas we are acquainted with at present, but likewise of all possible ideas whatsoever. It is, I say, evident from what has been said in the foregoing parts of this Treatise, and in sect. Fourthly, it will be objected that from the foregoing principles it follows things are every moment annihilated and created anew. Vicky Rene information. For example, the mind having observed that Peter, James, and John resemble each other in certain common agreements of shape and other qualities, leaves out of the complex or compounded idea it has of Peter, James, and any other particular man, that which is peculiar to each, retaining only what is common to all, and so makes an abstract idea wherein all the particulars equally partake- abstracting entirely from and cutting off all those circumstances and differences which might determine it to any particular existence. Both which may justly be thought pernicious and absurd notions. And in doing of this there is no damage done to the rest of mankind, who, I dare say, will never miss it. But, it is more unaccountable that it should be received among Christians, professing belief in the Holy Scriptures, which constantly ascribe those effects to the immediate hand of God that heathen philosophers are wont to impute to Nature. Bid your servant meet you at such a time in such a place, and he shall never stay to deliberate on the meaning of those words; in conceiving that particular time and place, or the motion by which he is to get thither, he finds not the least difficulty. But, notwithstanding what has been said, I must confess it does not appear to me that there can be any motion other than relative; so that to conceive motion there must be at least conceived two bodies, whereof the distance or position in regard to each other is varied.
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