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Of Modes of Thinking

§ 1. WHEN the Mind turns its view inwards upon it self, and contemplates its own Actions, Thinking is the first that occurs. In it the Mind observes a great variety of Modifications, and from thence receives distinct Ideas. Thus the Perception, which [228]actually accompanies, and is annexed to any impression on the Body, made by an external Object, being distinct from all other Modifications of thinking, furnishes the mind with a distinct Idea, which we call Sensation; which is, as it were, the actual entrance of any Idea into the Understanding by the Senses. The same Idea, when it again recurs without the operation of the like Object on the external Sensory, is Remembrance: if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavour found, and brought again in view, ’tis Recollection: If it be held there long under attentive Consideration, ’tis Contemplation: When Ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the Understanding, it is that, which the French call Reverie; our Language has scarce a name for it: When the Ideas that offer themselves, (for as I have observed in another place, whilst we are awake, there will always be a train of Ideas succeeding one another in our minds,) are taken notice of, and, as it were, registered in the Memory, it is Attention […].

§ 2. These are some few instances of those various Modes of thinking, which the Mind may observe in it self, and so have as distinct Ideas of, as it hath of White and Red, a Square or a Circle. I do not pretend to enumerate them all, nor to treat at large of this set of Ideas, which are got from Reflection: […] I shall have occasion hereafter to treat more at large of Reasoning, Judging, Volition, and Knowledge, which are some of the most considerable Operations of the mind, and Modes of thinking.

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