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TO THE

ESSAY concerning HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

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

A.

ABBOT of St. Martin, Vol. I.

Abstraction, I. 138, § 9

Puts a perfect distance betwixt men and brutes, I. 139, § 10 What, I. 438, § 9 How, I. 143, § 1 Abstract ideas, why made, I. 409, § 6, 7, 8

terms cannot be affirmed one of another, II. 4, § 1 Accident, I. 283, § 2

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

222,

But two sorts of actions, I.
4: I. 281, § 11
Unpleasant may be made plea-

sant, and how, I. 266, § 69 Cannot be the same in different places, I. 327, § 2 Considered as modes, or as moral, I. 379, § 15

Adequate ideas, I. 397, § 1, 2 $ We have not of any species of substances, II. 120, 26 Affirmations are only in concrete, 11. 4, § !

Agreement and disagreement of our ideas fourfold, II. 60, § 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Algebra, II. 220, § 15

Alteration, I. 322, § 2

Analogy, useful in natural philoso
phy, II. 238, § 12
Anger, I. 218, § 12, 14
Antipathy and sympathy, whence,
I. 421, § 7
Arguments of four sorts,

I. Ad verecundiam, II. 260, § 19 2. Ad ignorantiam, ibid, § 20 3. Ad hominem, ibid. § 21 4. Ad judicium, ibid. § 22. This alone right, II. 261, § 22 Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in arithmetic, II. 114, § 19 Artificial things are most of them collective ideas, I. 315, § 3 Why we are less liable to confusion, about artificial things, than about natural, I. 50, 40 Have distinct species, I. 503,941 Assent to maxims, I. 17, § 10 Upon hearing and understanding

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

Not of innate, ibid. § 18: I. 24, $19, 20: I. 68, § 19 Assent to probability, II. 226, § 3 Ought to be proportioned to the proofs, II. 282, § 1 Association of ideas, 1.419, § 1, &c. This association how made, I. 420, § 6

Ill

Ill effects of it, as to antipathies,
I. 421, § 7, 8: I. 424, § 15
And this in sects of philosophy
and religion, I. 425, § 18
Its ill influences as to intellectual
habits, ibid. 17
Assurance, II. 233, § 6
Atheism in the world, I. 57, § 8
Atom, what, I. 327, § 3
Authority; relying on others opi-
nions, one great cause of errour,
II. 294, 17.

BEINGS,

B.

EINGS, but two sorts, II.
191, 9

The eternal being must be cogi-
tative, ibid. §10
Belief, what, II. 226, § 3
To believe without reason, is
against our duty, II. 262, § 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, I. 296, § 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,
1. 301, § 16

The primary ideas of body, ibid.

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&c. I. 353. The meaning of
the same body, I. 349. Whe.
ther the word body be a simple
or complex term, I. 352. This
only a controversy about the
sense of a word, I. 361
But, its several significations, II.
3, § 5 - -

C.

APACITY, I. 148, § 3

Capacities, to know their ex-

tent, useful, I. 3, § 4

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

Are suited to our present state,
1. 3, § 5

Cause, I. 321, § 1
And effect, ibid.
Certainty depends on intuition, II.
69, § 1

Wherein it consists, II. 138, § 18
Of truth, II. 138

To be had in very few general
propositions, concerning sub-
stances, II. 154, § 13
Where to be had, II. 157, § 16
Verbal, II. 142, § 8
Real, ibid.

Sensible knowledge, the utmost
certainty we have of existence,
II. 200, § 2

The author's notion of it not
dangerous, II. 59, &c.
How it differs from assurance,
II. 233, § 6

Changelings, whether men or no,
II. 133, 13, 14
Clearness alone hinders confusion of
ideas, I. 136, § 3
Clear and obscure ideas, I. 383, § 2
Colours, modes of colours, I. 210,

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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, II. 234, § 7
Confusion of ideas, wherein it con-

sists, I. 384-5, § 5, 6, 7
Causes of confusion in ideas, I.
385-7, 7, 8, 9: 1. 388, § 12
Of ideas, grounded on a reference

to names, I. 387-8, § 10, 11, 12
Its remedy, 1. 389, 12
Confused ideas, I. 384, § 4
Conscience is our own opinion of

our own actions, I. 38, § 8
Consciousness makes the same per-

son, I. 333, § 10: I. 339, § 16
Probably annexed to the same
individual, immaterial sub-
stance, I. 344, § 25
Necessary to thinking, I. 83,
10, 11: 1, 89, § 19
What, ibid. § 19
Contemplation, I, 128, 1
Creation, I. 322, § 2

Not to be denied, because we
cannot conceive the manner
how, II. 198, § 19

D.

DEFINITION, why the genus

is used in definitions, I. 439,

610
Defining of terms would cut off a
great part of disputes, II. 31,
§ 15
Demonstration, II. 71, § 3
Not so clear as intuitive know-

ledge, ibid. 4: II. 72, § 6,7
Intuitive knowledge necessary in
each step of a demonstration,
ibid. § 7

Not limited to quantity, II. 73,
59

Why that has been supposed, II.
74, § 10

Not to be expected in all cases,
II. 205, § 10

What, II. 225, § 1: II.257, § 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, 1. 249, 46
Misled by wrong judgment, I.
.259, § 60
Dictionaries, how to be made, II.
56, 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, L
103, § 5

Despair, I. 218, § 11
Disposition, I. 281, § 10
Disputing. The art of disputing
prejudicial to knowledge, II.
25-7, 6, 7, 8, 9

Destroys the use of language, II.
27, 10

Disputes, whence, I. 162, § 28
Disputes,multiplicityof them owing
to the abuse of words, II. 35,
$22

Are most about the signification
of words, II. 44, § 7
Distance, I. 147, § 3
Distinct ideas, I. 384, § 4
Divisibility of matter incompre
hensible, I. 309, § 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, I. 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, I. 172, § 21

We

We only guess them equal by the
train of our ideas, ibid. § 21
Minutes, days, years, &c. not ne-
cessary to duration, I. 174,523
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
and eternity, I. 178, § 31
Duration and expansion compared,
I. 179, § i

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

ED

E.

DUCATION, partly the cause
of unreasonableness, I. 419, §3
Effect, I. 321, § 1
Enthusiasm, II. 271
Described, II. 174, § 6, 7
Its rise, II. 273, § 5
Ground of persuasion must be ex-

amined, and how, II. 275, § 10
Firmness of it, no sufficient

proof, II. 279, 12, 13
Fails of the evidence it pretends

to, II. 277, § 11
Envy, I. 218, § 13, 14
Errour, what, II. 282, 61

Causes of

errour, ibid.

1. Want of proofs, ibid. § 2
2. Want of skill to use them, II.
285, §5

3. Want of skill to use them, II.
282, 6

4. Wrong measures of probabi
lity, II. 287, $7
Fewer men assent to errours, than
is supposed, II. 295,

18

Essence, real and nominal, I. 449,
$15
Supposition of unintelligible,
real essences of species, of no
use, I. 450, 17

Real and nominal essences,in sim-
ple ideas and modes always the
same, in substances always
different, I. 451, § 18
Essences, how ingenerable and in-
corruptible, I. 452, § 19
Specific essences of mixed modes
are of men's making, and
how, I. 463, § 3

Though arbitrary, yet not at
random, I. 465, § 7
Of mixed modes, why called no-
tions, I. 470, § iz
What, I. 474, § 2

Relate only to species, I. 475, § 4
Real essences, what, I. 477,§6
We know them not, I. 479, §9
Our specific essences of substances

are nothing but collections of
sensible ideas, I. 486 § 21
Nominal are made by the mind,
I. 489,26

But not altogether arbitrarily,
I. 492, § 28

Nominal essences of substances,
how made, I. 492-3, § 28, 29
Are very various, I. 494, § 30:
I. 495, § 31

Of species, are the abstract ideas,
the names stand for, I. 442,
§ 12: 1.452, § 19
Arc of man's making, 1.446, 12
Eut founded in the agreement of
things, 1.447, § 13
Real essences determine not our
species, I. 448, § 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, II. 153, § 12
Essential, what, I. 474, § 2: I.
476, 5

Nothing essential to individuals,
1. 475, § 4

But to species, I. 477, § 6
Essential

Essential difference, what, I.

476, § 5
Eternal verities, II. 208, § 14
Eternity, in our disputes and rea-

fonings about it, why we are
apt to blunder, I. 390, § 15
Whence we get its idea, I. 176,
527

Evil, what, I. 245, § 42
Existence, an idea of sensation and

reflection, I. 108, §. 7
Our own existence we know in-
tuitively, II. 188, 2
And cannot doubt of it, ibid.
Of created things, knowable only
by our senses, 11. 199, § 1
Past existence known only by
memory, 11. 206, § 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, 1.
123,8
Extasy, I. 213, § 1
Extension: we have no distinct
ideas of very great, or very
little extension, 1. 391, § 16
Of body, incomprehensible, I.
303, $23, &c.
Denominations, from place and
extension, are many of them
relatives, I. 324, § 5
And body not the same thing,

1. 152, § 11

Its definition insignificant, I.
154, 15

Of body and of space how dis-
tinguished, I. 102, § 5: 1.
160, § 27

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What, II. 240, $14

Not opposite to reason, II. 261,
§24

As contra-distinguished to rea.
son, what, II. 263, § z
Cannot convince us of any thing
contrary to our reason, II.
266, &c., 5, 6, 8
Matter of faith is only divine
revelation, II. 269, § 9
Things above reason are only
proper matters of faith, II.
268, 7: II. 269, § 9
Falsehood, what it is, II. 143, 9
Fancy, I. 132, § 8
Fantastical ideas, 1. 393, § 1
Fear, II. 218, 10
§
Figure, I. 148-9, § 5, 6
Figurative speech, an abuse of lan.
guage, II. 41, 34
Finite, and infinite, modes of quan-
tity, I. 194, I

All positive ideas of quantity,
finite, I. 199, § 8
Forms,substantial forms distinguish
not species, I. 481, 10
Free, how far a man is so, I, 232,

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