The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three
1.Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made.
2.The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations.
3.The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
The value of a combination is obtained by applying the procedure specified by the operator to the arguments that are the values of the operands
整个组合体的值,取决于将特定的运算符施加在其参数列表数值上,所得到结果。
比如,下面的组合体的值为75
(+ 21 35 12 7)
To evaluate a combination, do the following:
Evaluate the subexpressions of the combination
Apply the procedure that is the value of the leftmost subexpression(the operator) to the arguments that are the values of the other subexpressions(the operands)