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Principles of human action
The want of precision in the current language subjects
us here to another difficulty. The word motive we
have already had found occasion to employ in three different
senses; each of every one of which are warranted by adopted in common use.
These senses all agree on this that they are significative
either of real or semi-real entities: the
exterior motive being a semi-real physical entity:
a physical [or else a pathological] event: the two interior motives both of them real mental entities: [ideas
in the mind.] the one an idea, the other a sensation of the
mind. But there is yet another sense of the word motive
which tho' still more usual to it than either of
these is totally disparate from all of them. A sense
which makes it significative of a fictitious entity,
a kind of passion quality, disposition or propensity on the mind. It is
in this sense that Anger, Love, Self-preservation, the seven <add>passions or propensities following</add>
curiosity, and benevolence are spoken of under the
name of motives:+ +1. Physical desire; 2.Lucre; 3.Pride, or the Desire of Esteem; 4.Curiosity; 5.Sympathy; 6. Anger; 7.Self-preservation. Here then lies the difficulty: for
those entities to which we have already given the name
of motive it would be difficult to find another name any other characteristic:
[that would answer the purpose] At the same time to
call these by that give the same name indiscriminately to those and
to these last would be to throw all things into confusion.
If the same common name of motives were
in use for both, to distinguish the one from the other
it would be necessary to find different epithets for them,
one epithet for members of <add>the one class, another for the other.</add>
These epithets then would mark out so many species
of which motive would be stand as the genus. They would thus
be stand represented as species of the same genus.
But as we have seen the truth is they are so disparate, as not to meet in

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