PRINTED FOR W. OTRIDGE AND SON, LEIGH AND SOTHEBY, F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, J. WALKER, W. LOWNDES, LACKINGTON 1812. CO N T E N T S OF THIS PAGE ESSAY on Human Understanding, book iv. ch. 5, &c. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal Appendix to the Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion con- Of the Conduct of the Understanding Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Elements of Natural Philosophy Additional Pieces in this Volume. 267 277 305 about ideas agreeing to things. 9. Falsehood is the joining of names, otherwise than their ideas agree. treated of more at large. 11. Moral and metaphysical truth. 2. General truths hardly to be understood, but in ver- bal propositions. 3. Certainty two-fold, of truth, and of knowledge. known to be true, where mentioned, is not known. 5. This more particularly concerns substances. 6. The truth of few universal propositions concerning substances, is to be known. 7. Because, co-existence of ideas in few cases is to be known. 8, 9. Instance in gold. 10. As far as any such co-ex- istence can be known, so far universal propositions may be certain. But this will go but a little way, because, 11, 12. The qualities, which make our complex ideas of sub- stances, depend mostly on external, remote, and un- perceived causes. 13. Judgment may reach far- ther, but tha tis not know- ledge. 14. What is requisite for our knowledge of substances. 15. Whilst our ideas of sub- stances contain not their real constitutions, we can make but few general, C H A P. VI. truth and certainty. SECT. 1. Treating of words, neces. sary to knowledge. |