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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XXVI
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The like when we say the creatures are all weak things; weak there is but a relative term, signifying the disproportion there is in the power of God and the creatures.

And so abundance of words, in ordinary speech, stand only for relations (and perhaps the greatest part) which at first sight seem to have no such signification: v.g.the ship has necessary stores.
NECESSARY and STORES are both relative words; one having a relation to the accomplishing the voyage intended, and the other to future use.
All which relations, how they are confined to, and terminate in ideas derived from sensation or reflection, is too obvious to need any explication..


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