I shall here treat a little more in detail of experience, and shall examine the method adopted by the Empirics, and by recent philosophers.
[k] By native strength, I mean that not bestowed on us by external causes, as I shall afterwards explain in my philosophy.
[l] Here I term them operations: I shall explain their nature in my philosophy.
[m] I shall take care not only to demonstrate what I have just advanced, but also that we have hitherto proceeded rightly, and other things needful to be known.
[33 note1] (1) In modern language, "the idea may become the subject of another presentation." (2) Objectivus generally corresponds to the modern "subjective," formalis to the modern "objective." [Trans.- Note 1]
[n] (1) Observe that we are not here inquiring how the first subjective essence is innate in us. (2) This belongs to an investigation into nature, where all these matters are amply explained, and it is shown that without ideas neither affirmation, nor negation, nor volition are possible.
[o] The nature of mental search is explained in my philosophy.
[p] To be connected with other things is to be produced by them, or to produce them.
[q] In the same way as we have here no doubt of the truth of our knowledge.
[r] See below the note on hypotheses, whereof we have a clear understanding; the fiction consists in saying that such hypotheses exist in heavenly bodies.