to be, and not to be; not 6, 7. That men know them 9-11. It is false, that reason dis covers them. 12. The coming to the use of reason, not the time we come to know these maxims. 13. By this, they are not dis tinguished from other knowable truths. 14. If coming to the use of reason were the time of their discovery, it would not prove them innate. 15, 16. The steps by which the mind attains several truths. 17. Assenting as soon as pro posed and understood, proves them not innate. 18. If such an assent be a mark of innate, then that one and two are equal to three; that sweetness is not bitterness; and a thousand the like, must be innate. nate. 22. Implicitly known before proposing, signifies, that the mind is capable of understanding them, or else signifies nothing. 23. The argument of assenting on first hearing, is upon a false supposition of no precedent teaching. 24. Not innate, because not universally assented to. 25. These maxims not the first known. 26. And so not innate. 27. Not innate, because they appear least, where what is innate, shows itself clearest. 28. Recapitulation. CHAP. III. No innate practical principles. SECT. 1. No moral principles so men. 3. Obj. Though men deny them in their practice, yet they admit them in their thoughts, answered. 4. Moral rules need a proof, ergo, not innate. 5. Instance in keeping compacts. 6. Virtue generally approved, not because innate, but be cause profitable. 22-26. How men commonly come by their principles. 27. Principles must be examined. CHAP. IV. Other considerations about innate principles, both speculative and practical. SECT. 1. Principles not innate, unless their ideas be innate. 2, 3. Ideas, especially those belonging to principles, not born with children. 4, 5. Identity an idea not in nate. 6. Whole and part, not innate ideas. 7. Idea of worship not in nate. 8-11. Idea of God, not innate. 12. Suitable to God's good ness, that all men should have an idea of him, therefore naturally imprinted by him; answered. 13-16. Ideas of God, various in different men. 17. If the idea of God be not innate, no other can be supposed innate. 18. Idea of substance not innate. 19. No propositions can be innate, since no ideas are innate. 20. No ideas are remembered, till after they have been introduced. 21. Principles not innate, because of little use or little certainty. 22. Difference of men's discoveries depends upon the different applications of their faculties. 23. Men must think and know for themselves. 24. Whence the opinion of innate principles, 25. Conclusion. SECT. CHAP. I. Of ideas in general. BOOK II. OF IDEAS. 1. Idea is the object of thinking. 2. All ideas come from sen sation or reflection. 3. The objects of sensation one source of ideas. 4. The operations of our minds, the other source of them. 5. All our ideas are of the one or the other of these. 6. Observable in children. 7. Men are differently fur nished with these, according to the different objects they converse with. 8. Ideas of reflection later, because they need attention. 9. The soul begins to have ideas, when it begins to perceive. 10. The soul thinks not always; for this wants proofs. 11. It is not always conscious of it. 12. If a sleeping man thinks without knowing it, the sleeping and waking man are two persons. 13. Impossible to convince those that sleep without dreaming that they think. 14. That men dream without remembering it, in vain urged. 15. Upon this hypothesis, the thoughts of a sleeping man ought to be most rational. 16. On this hypothesis the soul must have ideas not derived from sensation or reflection, of which there is no appearance. 17. If I think when I know it not, nobody else can know it. 18. How knows any one that the soul always thinks? For if it be not a self-evident proposition, it needs proof. 19. That a man should be busy in thinking, and yet not retain it the next moment, very improbable. 20-23. No ideas but from sensation, or reflection, evident, if we observe children. 24. The original of all our CHAP. VII. ideas the understanding is Of simple ideas, both of sensation knowledge. 25. In the reception of simple most of all passive. Of ideas of one sense. 2. Few simple ideas have SECT. names. CHAP. IV. Of solidity. SECT. and reflection. 1-6. Pleasure and pain. 7. Existence and unity. 8. Power. 9. Succession. 10. Simple ideas the materials of all our knowledge. CHAP. VIII. Other considerations concerning simple ideas. SECT. 1-6. Positive ideas from privative causes. 7, 8. Ideas in the mind, qualities in bodies. 9, 10. Primary and secondary qualities. 11, 12. How primary qualities produce their ideas. 1. We receive this idea from 13, 14. How secondary. touch. |