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Of co-existence very narrow, 338. § 9,10,11.
And therefore, of fubftances very narrow,339,

&c. § 14, 15, 16.

Of other relations indeterminable, 341. § 18.
Of existence, 344. $21.

Certain and universal, where to be had, 348.
$29.

Ill ufe of words, a great hindrance of know-
ledge, 349. § 30.

General, where to be got, 350. § 31.
Lies only in our thoughts, 355. § 13.
Reality of our knowledge, 349.

Of mathematical truths, how real, 352. § 6.
Of morality, real, ibid. § 7.

Of fubftances, how far real, 339. § 12.
What makes our knowledge real, 351. § 3. .
P. 353. $8.

Knowledge, confidering things, and not names,
the way to knowledge, 355. § 13.

Of fubftances, wherein it confifts, 339. $10.
What required to any tolerable knowledge of
fubftances, 368. § 14.
Self-evident, 370. $2.

Of identity and diversity, as large as our ideas,
338. § 8. p. 370. $4.

Wherein it confifts, ibid.

Of co-existence, very fcanty, 372. §.5.
Of relations of modes, not so scanty. ibid. § 6.
Of real existence, none, ibid. § 7.
Begins in particulars, 373. § 9.
Intuitive of our own existence, 388. § 3.
Demonftrative of a God, 389. § 1.
Improvement of knowledge, 402.
Not improved by maxims, ibid.
Why fo thought, ibid. § 2.

Knowledge improved, only by perfecting and
comparing ideas, 404. § 6. p. 408. § 14.
And finding their relations, 405. § 7.

By
In fubftances, how to be improved, 405. §9.
Partly neceffary, partly voluntary, 409. § 1.
P. 410. $2.

intermediate ideas, 408. § 14.

Why fome, and fo little, 410. § 2.
How increased, 414. § 6.

L.

LANGUAGES, why they change, 166. § 7.
Wherein it confifts, 243. § 1, 2, 3.

Its ufe, 263. $7.

Its imperfections, 293. § I.
Double use, ibid. § 1.

The ufe of language deftroyed by the subtilty

of difputing, 296. § 10, 11. Ends of language, 302. $23.

Its imperfections, not eafy to be cured, 304, and 315. 2, 4, 5, 6.

The cure of them neceffary to philosophy, 316. § 3.

To use no word without a clear and diftinct idea annexed to it, is one remedy of the imperfections of language, 317. § 8. p. 318. $9.

Propriety in the use of words, another remedy,
319. $11.

Law of nature generally allowed, 19. § 6.
There is, though not innate, 22. § 13.
Its inforcement, 208. § 6.

Learning, the ill ftate of learning in these latter
ages, 293, &c.

Of the schools lies chiefly in the abuse of words, 296, &c. 305.

Such learning of ill confequence, 3c6. $ 10, &c.

Liberty, what, 134. § 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. p. 136. $15.

Belongs not to the will, ibid. § 14.

To be determined by the refult of our own deliberation, is no reftraint of liberty, 149. $ 48, 49, 50.

Liberty, founded in a power of fufpending our
particular defires, 149. § 47. P. 151.
$51, 52.

Light, its abfurd definitions, 257. § 10.
Light in the mind, what, 445. § 13.

Logick has introduced obfcurity into languages,
305. § 6, 7.

And hindered knowledge, ibid. § 7.
Love, 129. § 4•

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$ 19:

Mathematicks, their methods, 405. $7. Im-
provement, 409. $ 15. Of the use of
them, in natural philofophy, 728.
Matter incomprehenfible, both in its cohesion and
divifibility, 178. § 23. p. 181. § 30, 31.
What, 308. $15.

Whether it may think, is not to be known,
336. § 6. p. 755, &c.

Cannot produce motion, or any thing else,
391. § 10.

And motion cannot produce thought, ibid.
Not eternal, 395. § 18.

Maxims, 370, &c. p. 379. § 12, 13, 14, 15.

The author denies not the certainty of them, 696. He allows them to be of fome ufe, 697. Not alone felf-evident, 370. § 3. Are not the truths first known, 373. $9. Not the foundation of our knowledge, ib. §10. Wherein 5 I 2

Wherein their evidence confifts, 373. § 10.
Their ufe, 375. § 11, 12.

Why the most general felf-evident propofitions alone, pafs for maxims, ibid. § 11. Are commonly proofs, only where there is no need of proofs, 369. § 15.

Of little ufe, with clear terms, 381.-§ 19. Of dangerous ufe, with doubtful terms, 379, &c. 12. p. 382. § 20.

When first known, 7, &c. § 9, 12, 13. p. 8. $ 14, 16.

How they gain affent, 12. § 21, 22.
Made from particular obfervations, ibid.
Not in the understanding before they are ac-
tually known, 12. § 22.

Neither their terms nor ideas innate,13. $23.
Leaft known to children and illiterate people,
15. $ 27.
Memory, 75 $ 2.

Attention, pleasure, and pain, fettle ideas in
the memory, ibid. § 3.

And repetition, ibid. 4. p. 76. § 6..
Difference of memory, 75. $4, 5.

In remembrance, the mind fometimes active,
fometimes paffive, 76. § 7.

Its neceffity, ibid. § 5. p. 77. § 8.
Defects, 77. $ 8, 9.

In brutes, 78. § 10.

Metaphyficks, and school divinity filled with unin

ftructive propofitions, 386. $9. Method ufed in mathematicks, 405. § 7. Mind, the quickness of its actions,. 73. § 10. Minutes, hours, days, not neceffary to duration,

102. $23.

Miracles, the ground of affent to miracles, 417. §

13.

Mifery, what, 146. § 42.

Modes, mixed modes, 164. § I..

Made by the mind, 165. § 2.

Sometimes got by the explication of their names, 165. § 3.

Whence a mixed mode has its unity, ib.
$4.
Occafion of mixed modes, 166. § 5.
Mixed modes, their ideas, how got, 167. $9.
Modes fimple and complex, 85. § 4.
Simple modes, 86. §.1.

Of motion, 125. §2.

Morel good and evil, what, 208. § 5.

Three rules, whereby men judge of moral
rectitude. ibid. §7.

Beings, how founded on fimple ideas of fen-
fation and reflection, 212. § 14, 15.
Rules not felf-evident, 18. § 4.
Variety of opinions, concerning moral rules,
whence, 18. § 5, 6.

Rules, if innate, cannot with public allowance be tranfgreffed, 21, &c. § 11, 12, 13: Morality, capable of demonftration, 320. $ 16. p. 341. § 18. p. 405. § 8.

The proper ftudy of mankind, 375. §11.
Of actions, in their conformity to a rule, 213..

Miftakes in moral notions, owing to names 213. § 16.

Difcourfes in morality, if not clear, it is the fault of the fpeaker, 321. § 17. Hindrances of demonstrative treating of morality. 1. Want of marks. 2. Complexednefs, 341. § 19. 3. Intereft, 344. § 20. Change of names in morality, changes not the nature of things, 353. § 9.

And mechanifm, hard to be reconciled, 24. §14. Morality, fecured amidst men's wrong judgments, 160. § 70.

Motion, flow or very fwift, why not perceived,
98. § 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Voluntary, inexplicable, 396. § 19.
Its abfurd definitions, 257. § 8, 9.

N.

NAM
NAMING of ideas, 81. § 8.

Names moral, established by law, are not to be varied from, 354. § 10.

Of fubftances, ftanding for real effences, are not capable to convey certainty to the understanding, 363. § 5.

Standing for nominal effences, will make some, though not many certain propofitions, 364.. $ 6.

Why men fubftitute names for real effences, which they know not, 310. § 19. Two falfe fuppofitions, in fuch an ufe of names, 311. $21.

A particular name to every particular thing, impoffible, 248. $2.

And ufelefs, ibid. $3.

Proper names, where ufed, 248. §4, 5. Specifick names are affixed to the nominal effence, 253. $ 16.

Of fimple ideas and fubftances, refer to things, 256. $2.

What names ftand for both real and nominal. effence, ibid. § 3.

Of fimple ideas not capable of definitions, ibid. 4.

Why, ibid. § 7.

Of leaft doubtful fignification, 260. § 15. Have few afcents "in linea prædicamentali,' 260. $ 16.

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Of complex ideas, may be defined, 259. §12. Of mixed modes ftand for arbitrary ideas, 261. $2, 3. p. 286. § 44.

Tie together the parts of their complex ideas,.. 265. § 10.

Stand always for the real effence, 266. § 14. Why got, ufually, before the ideas are known, ibid. § 15.

Of relations comprehended under those of mixed modes, 267. § 16.

General names of fubftances ftand for forts, 268. § I.

Neceffary to fpecies, 284. § 39.

Proper

Proper names belong only to fubftances, 285. $42.

Of modes in their firft application, 286.

$ 44, 45.

Of fubftances in their first application, 287. $46, 47.

Specifick names ftand for different things in different men, 288. § 48.

Are put in the place of the thing supposed to have the real effence of the fpecies, ib. §49. Of mixed modes, doubtful often, because of the great compofition of the ideas they stand for, 294. $6.

Because they want standards in nature, ib. § 7. Of fubftances, doubtful, because referred to patterns, that cannot be known, or known but imperfectly, 297, &c. § 11, 12, 13, 14. In their philofophical use hard to have fettled fignifications, 298. § 15.

Inftance, liquor, 299. $16. gold, ibid. §17. p. 309. § 17.

Of fimple ideas, why leaft doubtful, 300. §18. Leaft compounded ideas have the leaft dubious names, 301. $ 19.

Nature of man, what it is, 510, &c. The author's notion of nature and perfon defended, 552, &c. Bishop of Worcester's account of nature, 554, &c. No need to confult Greek or Latin authors to understand this English. word, 687. Mr. Boyle makes it not the fame with fubftance, 688. The author's reply to the Bishop, faying, "it is the fub"ject of effential properties." 731. Natural philofophy, not capable of science, 347. $26. p. 406. § 10.

Yet very ufeful, 407. § 12.
How to be improved, ibid.

What has hindered its improvement, 408.
Neceffity, 135. $13.

Negative terms, 243. § 4.

Names fignify the abfence of positive ideas, 63. $.5

Newton (Mr.) 375. § 11.

Nothing: that nothing cannot produce any thing,. is demonftration, 389. 3

Notions, 165. §2..

Number, 112.

Modes of number the most diftinct ideas,. ibid. $3.

Obftinate, they are moft, who have least examined, 415. § 3.

Opinion, what, 413. § 3.

How opinions grow up to principles, 27. § 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.

Opinion of others, a wrong ground of assent, 414. § 6. p. 455. § 17.

Organs. Our organs fuited to our state, 173. &c. § 12, 13.

P.

PAIN, prefent, works prefently, 157. § 64.
Its ufe, 60. $4.

Parrot, mentioned by Sir W. T. 195. §8.
Holds a rational difcourfe, ibid.

Particles join parts, or whole fentences together, 289. § 1.

In them lies the beauty of well-speaking, 290. $2.

How their use is to be known, ibid. § 3.
They exprefs fome action, or posture of the
mind, ibid. § 4.

Pafchal, his great memory, 77. § 9.
Paffion, 168. § 11.

Paffions, how they lead us into error, 419. § 11.
Turn on pleasure and pain, 129. § 3.
Paffions are feldom fingle, 145. $39.
Perception threefold, 133. § 5.

In perception, the mind for the most part paf-
five, 70. § 1,

Is an impreffion made on the mind, ib. § 3, 4--
In the womb, ibid. § 5.

Difference between it, and innate ideas, 71. §6..
Puts the difference between the animal and
vegetable kingdom, 73. § 11.

The feveral degrees of it, thew the wisdom and goodness of the maker, ibid. § 12. Belongs to all animals, ibid § 12, 13, 14. The first inlet of knowledge, 74. $15. Perfon what, 196. $9. How explained by theBishop of Worcester, 562, &c.

His definition of it confidered, 565. No more against the Trinity than the Bishop's, 586. A forenfick term, 204. § 26.

The fame confcioufnefs alone makes the fame: perfon, 198. §. 13. p. 203. § 23.

The fame foul without the fame consciousness, makes not the fame perfon, 199. § 14, &c.. Reward and punishment follow perfonal identity, 201. § 18.

Demonftrations in numbers, the most deter- Perfonal Identity, a defence of Mr. Locke's

minate, ibid. $4.

The general mealure, 115. $8.

Affords the cleareft idea of infinity, 119. §9.

Numeration, what, 113. $5.

Names, neceffary to it, ibid. § 5, 6..
And order, 114. § 7.

Why not early in children, and in fome never,. ibid.

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opinion concerning it, 775. Phancy, 77. § 8..

Phantaftical ideas, 222. § 1.

Philofophers, their authority fhould not determine: our judgment, 692.

Place, 87. 7, 8..

Ufe of place, 88. § 9..

Nothing but a relative pofition, 89. 10. Sometimes taken for the fpace a body fills, ib.. SIC..

Twofold, 108. § 6, 7..

Pleafure and pain, 128. §. 1. p. 139, § 15, 16..

Join

Join themselves to most of our ideas, 60. §2. Pleafure, why joined to feveral actions, 60. §3. Power, how we come by its idea, 131. § 1.

Active and paffive, ibid. § 2.

No paffive power in God, no active power in matter; both active and paffive in fpirits, ibid. §2.

Our idea of active power cleareft from reflection, 132. § 4.

Powers operate not on powers, 137. § 18. Make a great part of the ideas of fubftances, 171. $7.

Why, ibid. § 8.

An idea of fenfation and reflection, 64. § 8.
Practical principles not innate, 16. § 1.

Not univerfally affented to, 17. § 2.
Are for operation, ibid. § 3.

Not agreed, 24. § 14.
Different, 27. § 21.

Principles, not to be received without strict examination, 404. § 4. p. 451. $8.

The ill confequences of wrong principles, 451, &c. $ 9, 10.

None innate, 4.

None univerfally affented to, 5. § 2, 3, 4.
How ordinarily got, 27. § 22, &c.

Are to be examined, 29. § 26, 27.

Not innate, if the ideas, they are made up of,
are not innate, 30. § 1,

Privative terms, 248. § 4.
Probability, what, 412, &c. § 1, 3.

The grounds of probability, 413. § 4.
In matter of fact, 414. § 6.
How we are to judge, in probabilities, 413. §5.
Difficulties in probabilities, 418. § 9.
Grounds of probability in fpeculation,419.§12.
Wrong measures of probability, 451. §7.
How evaded by prejudiced minds, 453. § 13,

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Properties of fpecifick effences, not known, 275. $19.

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Of things very numerous, 229. § 10. p. 236.
$24.
Propofitions, identical, teach nothing, 382. § 2.
Generical, teach nothing, 384. § 4. p. 387.
$13.

Wherein a part of the definition is predicated
of the fubject, teach nothing, 372, &c.
$ 5, 6.

But the fignification of the word, ibid. § 7.
Concerning fubftances, generally either tri-

fling or uncertain, 373. § 9.
Merely verbal, how to be known, 379. § 12.
Abstract terms, predicated one of another, pro-
duce merely verbal propofitions, ibid.
Or part of a complex idea, predicated of the
whole, 384. 4. p. 387. § 13.
More propofitions, merely verbal, than is fuf-
pected, ibid. § 13.

Univerfal propofitions concern not existence,
388. § 1.

Propofitions: what propofitions concern existence,
ibid. § 1.

Certain propofitions, concerning existence,
are particular; concerning abftract ideas,
may be general, 401. § 13.
Mental, 358. $ 3. P. 359. § 5.
Verbal, ibid. § 3. p. ibid. § 5.
Mental, hard to be treated, ibid. § 3, 4.
Punishment, what, 208. § 5.

And reward, follow consciousness, 201. § 18.
P. 204. $26.

An unconscious drunkard, why punished,
202. $22.

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333. 11, 12, 13.

What, 64. § 10. p. 66. § 16.
How faid to be in things, 222. § 2.
Secondary, would be other, if we could disco-
ver the minute parts of bodies, 173. § 11.
Primary qualities, 64. §9.

How they produce ideas in us, 65. § 12.
Secondary qualities, ibid. § 13, 14, 15.
Primary qualities refemble our ideas, fe-
condary not, 66. § 15, 16, &c.
Three forts of qualities in bodies, 68. § 23.

i. e. primary, fecondary, immediately per-
ceivable; and fecondary, mediately perceiv-
able, 69. 25.

Secondary qualities, are bare powers, 68, &c. § 23, 24, 25.

Secondary qualities have no difcernible connexion with the first, 69. § 25. Quotations, how little to be relied on, 418. § 10.

REAL ideas, 216.

R.

Reafon, its various fignifications, 422. § I.
What, ibid. § 2.

Reason is natural revelation, 442. § 4.
It must judge of revelation, 446. § 14, 15.
It must be our laft guide in every thing, ibid.
Four parts of reafon, 423. §3.
Where reafon fails us, 431. §9.
Neceffary in all but intuition, 432. § 15.
As contra-diftinguifhed to faith, what, 436. $2.
Reafon helps us not to the knowledge of innate
truths, 5.5, 6, 7, 8.

General

General ideas, general terms, and reason, ufually grow together, 9. § 15. Recollection, 126. § I. Reflection, 44. $ 4.

Related, 185. S I.

Relation, 185.

Relation proportional, 206. § 1.
Natural, ibid. § 2.
Inftituted, 207. § 3.
Moral, ibid. § 4.
Numerous, 214. § 17.

Terminate in fimple ideas, ibid. § 18.
Our clear idea of relation, ibid. § 19.
Names of relations doubtful, ibid. 19.
Without correlative terms, not fo commonly
obferved, 186. § 2.

Different from the things related, ibid. §4. Changes without any change in the subject, ibid. § 5.

Always between two, 187. § 6.

All things capable of relation, ibid. § 6. The idea of the relation, often clearer than of the things related, 187. § 8.

All terminate in fimple ideas of fenfation and reflection, 188. § 9.

Relative, 185. § I.

Muft over-rule probabilities of reafon, 439. § 8, 9.

Reward, what, 208. § 5.

Rhetorick, an art of deceiving, 315. § 34.

S.

SAGACITY, 331. § 3.

Same, whether fubftance, mode or concrete, 205. 28.

Sand, white to the eye, pellucid in a microscope, 173. $11.

Sceptical, no one fo fceptical as to doubt his own existence, 389. § 2.

Scepticism, the author's definition of knowledge leads not to it, 682. The bifhop of Worcefter's arguing rather tends to it, 684. Syllogifm not neceffary to prevent it, 702. Schools, wherein faulty, 305. § 6, &c. Science, divided into a confideration of nature, of operation, and of figns, 446. No fcience of natural bodies, 348. § 29.. Scripture: interpretations of fcripture not to be impofed. 302. $23. The author's veneration of it, 673. The use of ideas, understanding it, ibid.

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Some relative terms, taken for external de- Self, what makes it, 201. § 20. p. 203. $23,

nominations, 186. § 2.

Some for abfolute, ibid. § 3.
How to be known, 188. § 10.

Many words, though feeming abfolute, are relatives, 186. § 3, 4, 5;

Religion, all men have time to inquire into, 448. $3.

But in many places are hindered from inquiring, 449. §4.

Remembrance, of great force, in common life, 77. § 8.

What, 39. § 20. p. 76. § 7.

Reputation, of great force, in common life, 211. $ 12.

Restraint, 135. § 13.

Refurrection, the author's notion of it, 665, &c..

Not neceffarily understood of the fame body, ibid. &c. The meaning of his body, 2 Cor.. v. 10. p. 651.

The fame body of Chrift arofe, and why, 655, 656. How the fcripture constantly fpeaks about it, 658, &c. Revelation, an unquestionable ground of affent, 421. § 14.

Belief, no proof of it, 446. § 15.

Traditional revelation cannot convey any new fimple ideas, 436. § 3.

Not fo fure, as our reafon, or fenfes, ibid. §4.. In things of reafon, no need of revelation, 437. $5.

Revelation, cannot over-rule our clear knowledge, 437. § 5. P. 440. § 10...

24, 25.

Self-love, 237. § 2. partly cause of unreasonableness in us,. ibid.

Self-evident propofitions, where to be had, 370,

&c.

Neither needed nor admitted proof, 381. $ 19.

Senfation, 44. § 3. diftinguishable from other
perceptions, 334. § 14.
Explained, 67. § 21.
What, 126, S. 3..

Senfes, why we cannot conceive other qualities, than the objects of our fenfes, 54. § 3. Learn to difcern by exercife, 322. $21. Much quicker would not be useful to us,. 174. § 12.

Our organs of fenfe fuited to our ftate, ibid..

&c. § 12, 13.

Senfible knowledge is as certain, as we need,, 399. $8.

Senfible knowledge goes not beyond the prefent act, 400. §.9.. Shame, 130. § 17.

Simple ideas, 53. § I..

Not made by the mind, ibid. 2.

Power of the mind over them, 86. § 1.

The materials of all our knowledge, 62. §10.. All pofitive, ib. § 1.

Very different from their caufes, 63. § 2, 3.

Sin, with different men, ftands for different ac-

tions, 26. § 19..

Solidity, 56. §.1..

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