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Essays and Miscellanies

CHAPTER XI
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The conception of the mind is the vision that the intelligence of a rational animal hath received; when that vision falls upon the rational soul, then it is called the conception of the mind, for it hath derived its name from the mind [Greek omitted] from [Greek omitted].

Therefore these visions are not to be found in any other animals; they only are appropriated to gods and to us men.

If these we consider generally, they are phantasms; if specifically, they are notions.

As pence or staters, if you consider them according to their own value, are simply pence and staters; but if you give them as a price for a naval voyage, they are called not merely pence, etc., but your freight..


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