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.
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, $ 6, 7, 8
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,
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
BEINGS, but two sorts, III. 54, $9
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
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,
84 Comments upon law, why infinite, II. 239, § 9
Complex ideas how made, I. 137,
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
Not to be denied, because we cannot conceive the manner how, III. 61, § 19
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
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, $ 15 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,
But founded in the agreement of things, II. 166, § 13
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.
Of body and of space how dis- tinguished, I. 102, §.5: I. 160, § 27
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
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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