SECT. VIII.
THe second Reason is somewhat coincident with some of those we have already examined; but it is briefly proposed by them thus: There can be no conception, no not of a Logical Place, or Ubi, without Extension. But Cogitation is easily conceived without conceiving any Extension: Wherefore the Mind cogitating, exempt from all Extension, is exempt also from all Locality whether Physical or Logical; and is so loosened from it, that it has no relation nor applicability thereto; as if those things had no relation nor applicability to other certain things without which they might be conceived.
The weakness of this argumentation is easily deprehended from hence, That the Intensness of heat or motion is considered without any respect to its extension, and yet it is referred to an extended Subject, viz. To a Bullet shot, or red hot Iron. And though in intent and defixed thoughts upon some either difficult or pleasing Object, we do not at all observe how the time passeth, nor take the slightest notice of it, nothing hinders notwithstanding but those Cogitations may be applied to time, and it be rightly said, that about six a clock, suppose, in the Morning they began, and continued till eleven; and in like manner the place may be defined where they were conceived, viz. within the Walls of such an ones Study, although perhaps all that time this so fixt Contemplator did not take notice whether he was in his Study or in the Fields.
And to speak out the matter at once, From the precision of our thoughts to infer the real precision or separation of the things themselves, is a very putid and puerile Sophism; and still the more enormous and wilde, to collect also thence, that they have no relation nor applicability one to another. For we may have a clear and distinct apprehension of a thing which may be connected with another by an essential Tye, that Tye being not taken notice of, (and much more when they are connected ⟨onely⟩ with a circumstantial one) but not a full and adequate ⟨apprehension⟩, and such as sees through and penetrates all the ⟨degrees⟩of
