BOOK I PART III
rately defined, a lively idea related to or associ-
ated with a present impression.
We may here take occasion to observe a very
remarkable error, which being frequently in-
culcated in the schools, has become a kind of
establishd maxim, and is universally received
by all logicians. This error consists in the vul-
gar division of the acts of the understanding,
intoconception, judgmentandreasoning, and in
the definitions we give of them. Conception is
defind to be the simple survey of one or more
ideas: Judgment to be the separating or unit-
ing of different ideas: Reasoning to be the sep-
arating or uniting of different ideas by the in-
terposition of others, which show the relation
they bear to each other. But these distinctions
and definitions are faulty in very considerable
articles. Forfirst, it is far from being true, that