If you take away abstraction, how do men differ from beasts? I answer, by shape, by language. Rather by degrees of more and less.
Wt means Locke by inferences in words, consequences of words, as something different from consequences of ideas? I conceive no such thing.
I.
N. B. Much complaint about the imperfection of language[101].
M.
But perhaps some man may say, an inert thoughtless Substance may exist, though not extended, moved, &c., but with other properties whereof we have no idea. But even this I shall demonstrate to be impossible, wn I come to treat more particularly of Existence.
Will not rightly distinguish'd from Desire by Locke—it seeming to superadd nothing to the idea of an action, but the uneasiness for its absence or non-existence.
S.