A Compend of Logick Author:John Andrews Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I. Of Simple Apprehenfion, Simple apprehenfion being that operation of the mind by which it is furnifh- ed with ideas, a treatife on it, is, in a grea... more »t meafure, a treatife on ideas, and on the procedure of the mind with re- fpeft to them : and it is alfo a treatife on words and definitions; becaufe, without thefe, we fhould often be at a lofs both in acquiring and communicating our ideas. The firft part, therefore, of Logick, may be divided into two chapters : One treating of ideas; and the other, of terms and definitions. CHAP, chapter{Section 4CHAP. I. Of Simple dpprehenfion, and the faculties by which it is exerted:—Of Ideas, or the first principles of Knowledge :—Of the fources from which they are derived ; and of the different forts of them. Simple Apprehension is that operation of the underftanding by which it attends to, and notices, the feveral ob- jefts that are prefented to it. It is called fimple apprehenfion, becaufe it is employed in the mere apprehending or noticing of things: without comparing them with each other, or afligning to them any attributes; which is the province of judgment. And by this operation it is, that the mind, as we have already obferved, is furnifhed with ideas: for without chapter{Section 5without previoufly attending to, and noticing, the objefts that are prefented to it, it is impoffible that the mind fhould ever have any ideas of them ; or, in other words, be able to reprefent to it- felf the appearances which they exhibit. In performing this operation, two faculties are made ufe of, which are quite diftinft from. each other ; Sensation, and Consciousness. If the objeft occurring be an external thing, the mind perceives it, and its qualities, by means of the fenfes; and the power of doing this is called The Fac...« less