![]() The common degrees of these are easily distinguished tho' it is not impos|sible but in particular instances they may very nearly approach to each other. Every one of himself will rea|dily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking. ![]() I believe it will not be very neces|sary to employ many words in explaining this distinction. ![]() By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning such as, for instance, are all the perceptions excited by the present dis|course, excepting only, those which arise from the sight and touch, and excepting the immediate pleasure or uneasiness it may oc|casion. Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions and under this name I comprehend all our sensa|tions, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul. ![]() They strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. ![]() The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which _ALL the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. ![]()
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