Our ideas of relations often clearer than of the subjects related. Secondly, This further may be considered concerning relation,that though it be not contained in the real existence of things, but something extraneous and superinduced, yet the ideas which relative words stand for are often clearer and more distinct than of those substances to which they do belong. The ideas, then, of relations, are capable at least of being more perfect and distinct in our minds than those of substances. Relations all terminate in simple ideas. Thirdly, Though there bea great number of considerations wherein things may be compared one with another, and so a multitude of relations, yet they all terminate in, and are concerned about those simple ideas, either of sensation or reflection, which I think to be the whole materials of all our knowledge.
Terms leading the mind beyond the subject denominated, are relative.
All relatives made up of simple ideas.