M. E.
Cause of much errour & confusion that men knew not what was meant by Reality[170].
I.
Des Cartes, in Med. 2, says the notion of this particular wax is less clear than that of wax in general; and in the same Med., a little before, he forbears to consider bodies in general, because (says he) these general conceptions are usually confused.
M. S.
Des Cartes, in Med. 3, calls himself a thinking substance, and a stone an extended substance; and adds that they both agree in this, that they are substances. And in the next paragraph he calls extension a mode of substance.
S.
'Tis commonly said by the philosophers, that if the soul of man were self-existent it would have given itself all possible perfection. This I do not understand.
Mo.
Mem. To excite men to the pleasures of the eye & the ear, which surfeit not, nor bring those evils after them, as others.