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INDEX

TO THE

ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

The Volumes are distinguished by the Roman Numerals
I, II, III, preceding the Number of the Page, and
those Figures which follow § refer to the Section.

A.

ABBOT of St. Martin, Vol. II.
page 209, § 26

Abstraction, I. 138, § 9

Puts a perfect distance betwixt
men and brutes, I. 139, § 10
What, II. 157, § 9

How, I. 143, § 1

Abstract ideas, why made, II. 128,
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terms cannot be affirmed
one of another, II. 232, § 1
Accident, II. 2, § 2

Actions, the best evidence of men's
principles, I. 37, § 7

But two sorts of actions, I. 222,
§ 4: I. 281, § 11
Unpleasant may be made plea-
sant, and how, I. 266, § 69
Cannot be the same in different
places, II. 46, § 2

Considered as modes, or as moral,

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Alteration, II. 41, § 2

Analogy, useful in natural philoso-
phy, III. 101, § 12

Anger, I. 218, § 12, 14
Antipathy and sympathy, whence,
II. 140, § 7
Arguments of four sorts,

I. Ad verecundiam, III. 123,§ 19
2. Ad ignorantiam, ibid. § 20
3. Ad hominem, ibid. § 21
4. Ad judicium, ibid. § 22. This
alone right, III. 142, § 22
Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in
arithmetic, II. 342, § 19
Artificial things are most of them
collective ideas, II. 34, § 3
Why we are less liable to confu-

sion, about artificial things,
than about natural, II. 221,§ 40
Havedistinct species,II. 222, §41
Assent to maxims, I. 17, § 10

Upon hearing and understanding

the terms, 1. 22, § 17, 18
Assent, a mark of self-evidence,
I. 23, § 18

Not of innate, ibid. § 18: I. 24, ́
§ 19, 20: 1. 68, § 19

Assent to probability, III. 89, § 3
Ought to be proportioned to the
proofs, III. 145, § 1

Association of ideas, II. 138, §1,&c.
This association how made, I
139, §6

Ill effects of it, as to antipathies,

II. 140, § 7, 8 : II. 143, § 15
And this in sects of philosophy

and religion, II. 144, § 18
Its ill influences as to intellectual
habits, ibid. § 17
Assurance, III. 96, § 6
Atheism in the world, I. 57, § 8
Atom, what, II. 46, § 3
Authority; relying on others opi-
nions, one great cause of er-
rour, III. 157, § 17

B.

BEINGS, but two sorts, III. 54,
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The eternal being must be cogi-
tative, ibid. § 10
Belief, what, III., 89, § 3

To believe without reason, is
against our duty, III. 125,
§ 24
Best in our opinion, not a rule of
God's actions, I. 63, § 12
Blind man, if made to see, would
not know which a globe, which
a cube, by his sight, though
he knew them by his touch,
I. 124, § 8

Blood, how it appears in a micro-
scope, il. 15, § 11.

Brutes have no universal ideas, I.
139, § 10, 11
Abstract, not, ibid. § 10
Body. We have no more primary
ideas of body than of spirit,
II. 20, § 16

The primary ideas of body, ibid.
§ 17

The extension or cohesion of
body,as hard to be understood,
as the thinking of spirit, II.
22-5, § 23, 24, 25, 26,
27

Moving of body by body as hard

to be conceived as by spirit,
II., 20 § 28

Operates only by impulse, I. 113,
§ 11
What, I. 152, § 11

The author's notion of the body,

2 Cor. v. 10. II. 69, and of
his own body, 1 Cor. xv. 35,
&c. II, 72. The meaning of
the same body, II. 68. Whe-
ther the word body be a simple
or complex term, II. 71. This
only a controversy about the
sense of a word, II. 80
But, its several significations, IF.
231, § 5

C.

CAPACITY, I. 148, § 3
Capacities, to know their extent,
useful, I. 3, § 4

To cure scepticism and idleness,
I. 4, § 6

Are suited to our present state,
I. 3, § 5

Cause, II. 40, § 1

And effect, ibid.
Certainty depends on intuition, II.
297, § 1

Wherein it consists, II, 366,
§ 18

Of truth. III. 1

To be had in very few general
propositions, concerning sub-
stances, III. 17, § 13
Where to be had, III. 20, § 16
Verbal, III. 5, § 8
Real, ibid.

Sensible knowledge, the utmost
certainty we have of existence,
III. 63, § 2

The author's notion of it not
dangerous, II. 287, &c.

How it differs from assurance,
III. 96, § 6
Changelings, whether men or no,
II. 361, § 13, 14
Clearness alone hinders confusion
of ideas, I. 135, § 3
Clear and obscure ideas, II. 102,
§ 2

Colours, modes of colours, I. 210,

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Comments upon law, why infinite,
II. 239, § 9

Complex ideas how made, I. 137,

§ 6: I. 143, § 1

In these the mind is more than
passive, I. 144, § 2

Ideas reduceable to modes, sub-
stances, and relations, ibid. § 3
Comparing ideas, I. 137, § 4
Herein men excel brutes,ibid. § 5
Compounding ideas, ibid. § 6
In this is a great difference be-
tween men and brutes,ibid.§7
Compulsion, I. 227, § 13
Confidence, III. 97, § 7
Confusion of ideas, wherein it con-

sists, II. 103-4, § 5, 6, 7
Causes of confusion in ideas, II.
104-6, § 7, 8, 9: II. 107, § 12
Of ideas,grounded on a reference

to names, II.106-7, § 10, 11, 12
Its remedy, II. 108, § 12
Confused ideas, II. 103, § 4
Conscience is our own opinion of

our own actions, I. 38, § 8
Consciousness makes the same per-
son, II. 52, § 10: II. 58, § 16
Probably annexed to the same
individual, immaterial sub-
stance, II. 63, § 25

Not limited to quantity, II. 301,
§ 9

Why that has been supposed, II.
302, § 10

Not to be expected in all cases,
III. 68, § 10

What, III. 88, § 1: III. 120,
§ 15

Desire, I. 217, § 6

Is a state of uneasiness, I. 237-8,
§ 31, 32

Is moved only by happiness, I.
245, § 41

How far, I. 246, § 43
How to be raised, I. 249, § 46
Misled by wrong judgment, I.
259, § 60

Dictionaries, how to be made, II.
284, § 25

Discerning, I. 134, § 1

The foundation of some general
maxims, I. 135, § 1
Discourse cannot be between two
men, who have different names
for the same idea, or different
ideas for the same name, I.
103, § 5

Despair, I. 218, § 11

Necessary to thinking, I. 83, Disposition, I. 281, § 101

§ 10, 11: I. 89, § 19

What, ibid. § 19

Contemplation, I. 128, § 1
Creation, II. 41, § 2

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Not to be denied, because we
cannot conceive the manner
how, III. 61, § 19

D.

DEFINITION, why the genus is
used in definitions, II. 158,
§ 10
Defining of terms would cut off
a great part of disputes, II.
259, § 15
Demonstration, II. 299, § 3
Not so clear as intuitive know-
ledge, ibid. § 4: II. 300, §
6, 7

Intuitive knowledge necessary in
each step of a demonstration,
ibid. § 7

Disputing. The art of disputing
prejudicial to knowledge, II.
254-5, § 6, 7, 8, 9

Destroys the use of language, II.
255, § 10

Disputes, whence, I. 162, § 28
Disputes, multiplicity of them ow-
ing to the abuse of words, II.
263, § 22

Are most about the signification
of words, II. 272, § 7
Distance, II. 147, § 3
Distinct ideas, II. 103, § 4
Divisibility of matter incompre-
hensible, II. 28, § 31
Dreaming, I. 213, § 1

Seldom in some men, I. 85, § 14
Dreams for the most part irrational,
I. 87, § 16

In dreams no ideas but of sensa-
tion, or reflection, ibid. § 17
Duration, I. 163, § 1, 2

Whence we get the idea of dura-

tion, 1. 163-5, § 3, 4, 5
Not from motion, I. 169, § 16
Its measures, ibid. § 17, 18
Any regular periodical appear-
ance, I. 170-1, § 19, 20
None of its measures known to
be exact, 1. 172, § 21
We only guess them equal by the

train of our ideas, ibid. § 21
Minutes, days, years, &c. not ne-
cessary to duration, I. 174,
§ 23
Change of the measures of dura-
tion, change not the notion of
it, ibid. 23

The measures of duration, as the
revolutions of the sun, may be
applied to duration before the
sun existed, I. 174-6, § 24,
25, 28

Duration without beginning, I.
175, § 26

How we measure duration, I.
176-7, § 27, 28, 29
Recapitulation, concerning our
ideas of duration, time, and
eternity, I. 178, § 31
Duration and expansion compared,
I. 179, § 1

They mutually embrace each
other, I. 188, § 12
Considered as a line, I. 187, §11
Duration not conceivable by us
without succession, I. 188,§ 12

E.

EDUCATION, partly the cause of
unreasonableness, II. 138, § 3

Effect, II. 40, § 1
Enthusiasm, III. 134
Described, III. 137, § 6, 7
Its rise, III. 136, § 5
Ground of persuasion must be ex-
amined,andhow, III. 138,§ 10
Firmness of it, no sufficient
proof, III. 142, § 12, 13
Fails of the evidence it pretends
to, IlI. 140, § 11

Envy, I. 218, § 13, 14
Errour, what, III. 145, § 1
Causes of errour,
ibid.
1. Want of proofs, ibid. § 2
2. Want of skill to use them, III.
148, § 5

3. Want of will to use them, III.
149, § 6

4. Wrong measures of probabi-
lity, III. 150, § 7

Fewer men assent to errours, than
is supposed, III. 158, § 18
Essence, real and nominal, II. 168,
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Supposition of unintelligible,real
essences of species, of no use,
II. 169, § 17

Real and nominal essences, in
simple ideas and modes always
the same, in substances always
different, II. 170, § 18
Essences, how ingenerable and in-
corruptible, II. 171, § 19
Specific essences of mixed modes
are of men's making, and how,
II. 182, § 3
Though arbitrary, yet not at ran-
dom, II. 184, § 7

Of mixed modes, why called no-
tions, Il. 189, § 12
What, II. 193, § 2 ·

Relate only to species, II. 194, §4
Real essences, what, II. 196, § 6
We know the mnot, II. 198, § 9
Our specific essences of sub-

stances are nothing but col-
lections of sensible ideas, II.
205, § 21

Nominal are made by the mind.
II. 208, § 26

But not altogether arbitrarily,
II. 211, § 28

Nominal essences of substances,
how made, II. 211, § 28, 29
Are very various, II. 213, § 30:
II. 214, § 31

Of species, are the abstract ideas,
the names stand for, II. 161,
§ 12: II. 171, § 19
Are of man's making, II, 165,

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But founded in the agreement of
things, II. 166, § 13

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Real essences determine not our
species, II. 16, §13
Every distinct abstract idea, with
a name, is a distinct essence of
a distinct species, ibid. § 14
Real essences of substances, not
to be known, III. 16, § 12
Essential, what, II. 193, § 2: II.
195, § 5

Nothing essential to individuals,
II. 194, § 4

But to species, II. 196 § 6
Essential difference, what, II.
105, § 5

Eternal verities, III. 71, § 14
Eternity, in our disputes and rea-

sonings about it, why we are
apt to blunder, II. 109, § 15
Whence we get its idea, I. 176,
§ 27

Evil, what, I. 245, § 42
Existence, an idea of sensation and
reflection, I. 108, § 7
Our own existence we know in-
tuitively, 11. 51, § 2
And cannot doubt of it, ibid.
Of created things, knowable only
by our senses, III. 62, § 1
Past existence known only by
memory, III. 69, § 11
Expansion, boundless, I. 180, § 2.
Should be applied to space in
general, I. 161, § 27
Experience often helps us, where
we think not that it does, I.
123, § 8

Extasy, I. 213, § 1
Extension: we have no distinct

ideas of very great, or very
little extension, II 140, § 16
Of body, incomprehensible, II.
22, § 23, &c.

Denominations, from place and
extension, are many of them
relatives, II 43, § 5

And body not the same thing,
I. 152, § 11

Its definition insignificant, I.

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154, § 15

VOL. III.

Of body and of space how dis-
tinguished, I. 102, §.5: I.
160, § 27

F.

FACULTIES of the mind. first
exercised, I..141, § 14

Are but powers, I. 229, § 17
Operate not, I. 230, § 18, 20
Faith and opinion, as distinguished
from knowledge, what, III.
89, § 2, 3

And knowledge, their difference,
ibid § 3

What, III. 103, § 14
Not opposite to reason, III. 124,
§ 24

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As contra-distinguished to rea-
son, what, III. 126, § 2
Cannot convince us of any thing
contrary to our reason, ill.
129, &c § 5, 6, 8

Matter of faith is only divine
revelation, III 152, § 9
Things above reason are only
proper matters of faith, II.
131, § 7: III. 132, § 9`
Falsehood, what it is, III. 6, § 9
Fancy, I. 132, § 8

Fantastical ideas, II. 116, § 1.
Fear, III. 79, § 10.
Figure, I. 148-9, § 5, 6
Figurative speech, an abuse of lan-
guage, II. 269, § 4

Finite, and infinite, modes of quan-
tity, I. 194, § 1

All positive ideas of quantity,
finite, I. 199, § 8
Forms,substantial forms distinguish

not species, Il. 200, § 10.
Free, how far a man is so, I. 232,
§ 21

A man not free to will, or not to
will, ibid. § 22, 23, 24
Freedom belongs only to agents,
I. 230, § 19

Wherein it consists, I. 235,

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