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23 May 1815
Chrest Est 2
Ground of
(7) [Complex or complicated] Understand, with the
exception of that species of complexity or complicationcomplicatedness,
complic which has place in the case of concrete, as <add>opposite to</add>contradistinguished from abstract is sensible ideas. - Whence (it may be and) causes the exception? Answer - From being;
it sha viz: that, though in other cases, the more complex the idea is, the more greater
the labour of mind or fire of attention is, which is necessary to
the obtaining the conception in a clear compleat and
correct and shew state, here it is otherwise.such is not the case here.
In By every No portion of matter evenever presents
itself to sense, without presenting at one and the same time
a numbermultitude of simple ideas, of all which taken togetherwherebyall togetheraltogether form one
the concrete one, in a state more or less correct and compleat; is
At the samecomposed. At the same time, though naturally all these ideas
present themselves together, the mind has it in its
power to detach any one or more of them from [+] or make it up
into a compound,
with other simple
ideas, detached the
later manner from
other sources.
the rest, and either keep it in view, in a separate take it
in contemplation
separatelyin this detached state.[+]. But , to for<add>the</add>making of make this separation - this
obstruction (as it is called), - more trouble- a stronger
force of attention - is necessary, than for the taking them
in a promiscuous bundle, as it were - in the bundle in which they have been laid<add>together</add>by the hands of Nature: as they happen to persons
Members: that is, than for the considering the to considerable object in its concrete
state.
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