Qu. How can all words be said to stand for ideas? The word blue stands for a colour without any extension, or abstract from extension. But we have not an idea of colour without extension. We cannot imagine colour without extension. Locke seems wrongly to assign a double use of words: one for communicating & the other for recording our thoughts. ’Tis absurd to use words for recording our thoughts to ourselves, or in our private meditations(75). No one abstract simple idea like another. Two simple ideas may be connected with one & the same 3d simple idea, or be intromitted by one & the same sense. But consider’d in themselves they can have nothing common, and consequently no likeness. Qu. How can there be any abstract ideas of colours? It seems not so easily as of tastes or sounds. But then all ideas whatsoever are particular. I can by no means conceive an abstract general idea. ’Tis one thing to abstract one concrete idea from another of a different kind, & another thing to abstract an idea from all particulars of the same kind(76). (M39) Mem. Much to recommend and approve of experimental philosophy. (M40) What means Cause as distinguish’d from Occasion? Nothing but a being wch wills, when the effect follows the volition. Those things that happen from without we are not the cause of. Therefore there is some other Cause of them, i.e. there is a Being that wills these perceptions in us(77). (M41) [(78)It should be said, nothing but a Will—a Being which wills being unintelligible.] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ One square cannot be double of another. Hence the Pythagoric theorem is false. Some writers of catoptrics absurd enough to place the apparent place of the object in the Barrovian case behind the eye. Blew and yellow chequers still diminishing terminate in green. This may help to prove the composition of green. There is in green 2 foundations of 2 relations of likeness to blew & yellow. Therefore green is compounded. A mixt cause will produce a mixt effect. Therefore colours are all compounded that we see. Mem. To consider Newton’s two sorts of green. N. B. My abstract & general doctrines ought not to be condemn’d by the Royall Society. ’Tis wt their meeting did ultimately intend. V. Sprat’s History S. R.(79) Mem. To premise a definition of idea(80). ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ (M42) The 2 great principles of Morality—the being of a God & the freedom of man. Those to be handled in the beginning of the Second Book(81). Subvertitur geometria ut non practica sed speculativa. Archimedes’s proposition about squaring the circle has nothing to do with circumferences containing less than 96 points; & if the circumference contain 96 points it may be apply’d, but nothing will follow against indivisibles. V. Barrow.