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    The nominal essence of the sun is the combination of sens... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The name 'sun' may be truly and properly applied to any substance that possesses the combination of sensible qualities by which things called 'sun' are distinguished from other substances.

    The nominal essence of the sun is the combination of sensible qualities by which anything called 'sun' is distinguished from other substances.

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    Your lordship’s proof here brought out of my Essay, concerning the sun, I humbly conceive will not reach it; because what is said there, does not at all concern the real, but nominal essence; as is evident from hence, that the idea I speak of there, is a complex idea; but we have no complex idea of the internal constitution, or real essence of the sun. Besides, I say expressly, that our distinguishing substances into species by names, is not at all founded on their real essences. So that the sun

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