Classification of Thoughts

"I should ... divide my thoughts into certain kinds ... Of my thoughts some are, so to speak, images of things,and to these alone is the title `idea' applied; examples are my thought of a man, or of a chimera, of heaven, of an angel, or [even] of God. But other thoughts possess other forms as well. For example in willing, fearing, approving, denying, thought I always perceive something as the subject of the action of my mind, yet by this action I always add something else to the idea which I have of that thing; and of the thoughts of this kind are called volitions or affections and others judgments." (IP3 50bf)


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