OBJECT. VI.

* _But there are Other (~Thoughts~) That have Superadded Forms to them,

as when I Will, when I Fear, when I Affirm, when I Deny; I know I have

alwayes (whenever I think) some certain thing as the Subject or Object

of my Thought, but in this last sort of Thoughts there is something

More which I think upon then Barely the Likeness of the Thing; and of

these Thoughts some are called Wills and Affections, and others of them

Judgements._

When any one _Fears_ or _Wills_, he has certainly the _Image_ of the

_Thing Fear’d_, or _Action Will’d_, but what more a _Willing_ or

_Fearing_ Man has in his Thoughts is not explain’d; and tho _Fear_ be a

_Thought_, yet I see not how it can be any other then the _Thought_ of

the _Thing Fear’d_; For what is the _Fear_ of a _Lion rushing on me_, but

the _Idea_ of a Lion Rushing on me, and the _Effect_ (which that _Idea_

produces in the _Heart_) whereby the Man _Fearing_ is excited to that

Animal Motion which is called Flight? but now this Motion of _Flying_

is not _Thought_, it remains therefore that in _Fear_ there is no other

_Thought_, but that which consists in the _likeness_ of the thing. And

the same may be said of _Will_.

Moreover _Affirmation_ and _Negation_ are not without a _voice_ and

_words_, and hence ’tis that Brutes can neither _affirme_ or _deny_ not

so much as in their Thought, and consequently neither can they judge.

But yet the same thought may be in a beast as in a Man; for when we

_affirme_ that a Man runs, we have not a _thought_ different from what

a Dog has when he sees his Master running; _Affirmation_ therefore or

_Negation_ superadds nothing to _meer thoughts_, unless perhaps it adds

this thought, that the _names_ of which an _Affirmation_ consists are (to

the Person _affirming_) the _Names_ of the _same thing_; and this is not

to comprehend in the _thought_ more then the _likeness_ of the _thing_,

but it is only comprehending the same _likeness twice_.

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