MODE

(Lat. modus.) A term used by Locke to denote '•such complex Ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependences on, or affections of, sub Of these modes there are two kinds, simple and modes are "only variations or different combinations of the same simple idea, without the mixture of any other, as a dozen or a score, which are nothing hut the ideas of so many distinct units added together." Mixed ihw/i.. are those "compounded of simple ideas of several kindput together to make one complex one — e. g., beauty; anil consisting of a certain composition of colour and figure, delight In the beholder." It need hardly be said that this distinction is founded on a very imperfect and false The term is now universally laid aside by writers on mental philosophy. Mode. In.Music, the melodious constitution of the occonsisting of seven e ential and natural sounds bekey or fundamental. It is not any single note or sound, but the order of the concinous degrees of an octave, the fundamental note whereof may, in another sense, be called the key, as it signifies the principal note which regurest. The difference between a mode and a key is, octave with its natural concinous degrees is called a mode with respect to the manner of dividing it, whilst as regards its place in the scale of music or pitch it is called a key. [s. 775]