Ideas of individual objects

Individual Objects.—Our first knowledge is of individuals—particular trees, particular flowers, particular men. These individual ideas are presented to us in two ways. We know some objects as simulta¬neous wholes, whose parts are co-existent ; as a rose, a landscape, a house. Other ideas are successive wholes, whose parts do not co-exist, but follow one another in time ; a storm, a shipwreck, a journey. In other words, some of our ideas relate to obiects in space, others to events in time.
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