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You're listening to the Partial Exam in Life episode 259,

a Part 2 on John Locke's As a Concerned Human Understanding.

So let's get into Chapter 25 on relation and then we can talk about identity and more about

material substances versus spiritual substances and all that.

But relation seems like a obvious thing to get out.

Do you want to just read the beginning of that? Go ahead Dylan.

Besides the ideas, whether simple or complex that the mind has of things as they are in themselves,

there are others it gets from comparison with one another.

The understanding in the consideration of anything is not confined to that precise object.

It can carry any idea as it were beyond itself or at least look beyond it to see how it stands

in conformity with any other. When the mind so considers one thing that it does as it were

bring to it and set it by another, carry its view from one to the other.

This is as the words import relation and respect and the denominations given to positive things

intimating that respect and serving as marks to lead the thoughts beyond the subject itself

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