S.
'Tis allow'd that particles stand not for ideas, and yet they are not said to be empty useless sounds. The truth really is, they stand for operations of the mind, i.e. volitions.
Mo.
Locke says all our knowledge is about particulars. If so, pray wt is the following ratiocination but a jumble of words? “Omnis homo est animal; omne animal vivit: ergo omnis homo vivit.” It amounts (if you annex particular ideas to the words “animal” and “vivit”) to no more than this: “Omnis homo est homo; omnis homo est homo: ergo, omnis homo est homo.” A mere sport and trifling with sounds.
Mo.
We have no ideas of vertues & vices, no ideas of moral actions[127]. Wherefore it may be question'd whether we are capable of arriving at demonstration about them[128], the morality consisting in the volition chiefly.
E.
Strange it is that men should be at a loss to find their idea of Existence; since that (if such there be distinct from perception) it is brought into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection[129], methinks it should be most familiar to us, and we best acquainted with it.
E.