ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.
The volumes are distinguished by the Roman numerals i, ii, pre- ceding the number of the page, and those figures which fol- low § refer to the section.
ABBOT of St. Martin, Vol. i. page
449, § 26 Abstraction, i. 148, § 9
Puts a perfect distance betwixt men and brutes, i. 149, § 10 What, i. 405, § 9
How, i. 152, § 1 Abstract ideas, why made, i. 380, § 6, 7,8
terms cannot be affirmed one of another, ii. 11, § 1 Accident, i. 270, § 2 Actions, the best evidence of men's
principles, i. 62, § 7
But two forts of actions, i. 217, §. 4: i. 268, § 11
Unpleasant may be made pleasant, and how, i. 256, § 69 Cannot be the fame in different places, i. 307, § 2
Confidered as modes, or as moral, i. 355, § 15 Adequate ideas, i. 369, § 1, 2
We have not of any species of sub- ftances, ii. 119, § 26 Affirmations are only in concrete, ii, 11, § 1
Agreement and difagreement of our ideas fourfold, ii. 62, § 3, 4, 5.
Alteration, i. 303, § 2
Analogy, useful in natural philosophy, ii. 219, § 12
Anger, i. 215, § 12, 14 Antipathy and fympathy, whence, i. 390, $7
Arguments of four forts,
1. Ad verecundiam, ii. 238, § 19 2. Ad ignorantiam, ibid. § 20 3. Ad hominem, ibid. § 21 4. Ad judicium, ibid. § 22. This alone right, ii. 239, § 22 Arithmetic the ufe of cyphers in a- rithmetic, ii. 113, § 19
Artificial things are most of them col- lective ideas, i. 299, § 3
Why we are lefs liable to confufion, about artificial things, than about natural, i. 459, § 40
Have diftinct fpecies, i. 459, § 41 Affent to maxims, i. 46, § 10
Upon hearing and understanding
the terms, i. 50, § 17, 18 Affent, a mark of felf evidence, i. 50, § 18
Not of innate, i. 50, § 18: i. 51, § 19, 20: i. 89, § 19
Affent to probability, ii. 208, § 3 Ought to be proportioned to the proofs, ii. 257, § 1 Affociation of ideas, i. 388, § 1, &c. This affociation how made, i. 389, $ 6
Ill effects of it, as to antipathies, i.
390, 7, 8: i. 392, § 15 And this in fects of philofophy and religion, i 394, § 19
Its ill influences as to intellectual
habits, i. 393, § 17
Affurance, ii. 215, § 6
Atheism in the world, i. 79, § 8 Atom, what, i 307, § 3
Authority; relying on others opin- ions, one great cause of error, ii. 267, 17
BEINGS, but two forts, ii. 179, § 9 The eternal Being must be cogita- tive, ii. 180, § 10 Belief, what, ii. 209, § 3
To believe without reafon, is a-
gainst our duty, ii. 240, § 24 Best in our opinion, not a rule of God's actions, i. 84, § 12 Blind man, if made to fee, would not know which a globe, which a cube, by his fight, though he knew them by his touch, i. 135, $ 8.
Blood, how it appears in a micro- fcope, i. 281, § 11
Brutes have no univerfal ideas, i. 149, $ 10, 11
Abstract not, i. 189, § 10 Body. We have no more primary ideas of body than of spirit, i. 278, § 16
The primary ideas of body, i. 285, $17
'The extenfion or cohesion of body,
as hard to be understood, as the thinking of fpirit, i. 287-290, § 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
Moving of body by body, as hard to be conceived as by spirit, i. 290, $ 28
Operates only by impulse, i. 126, $11
What, i. 159, § 11
The author's notion of his body, 2
Cor. v. 10. i. 327, and of his own body, 1 Cor. xv. 35, &c i. 330. The meaning of the fame body, i 326. Whether the word body be a fimple or complex term, i. This only a controverfy about the fenfe of a word, i. 359. But, its feveral fignifications, ii. 12, § 5.
Capacities, to know their extent, useful, i. 32, § 4
To cure fcepticism and idleness, i. 34, § 6
Are fuited to our present state, i. 33, $5
Cause, i. 297, § 1
And effect, i. 297, § 1
Certainty depends on intuition, ii. 70, $1
Wherein it consists, ii. 134, § 18 Of truth, ii. 184
To be had in very few general propofitions concerning fubftanc- es, ii. 142, § 13
Where to be had, ii. 159, § 16 Verbal, ii. 138, § 8 Real, ii. 138, § 8
Senfible knowledge, the utmost cer- tainty we have of existence, ii. 187, $ 2
The author's notion of it not dan- gerous, ii. 61, &c.
How it differs from affurance, ii. 215, $ 6
Changelings, whether men or no, ii. 130, § 13, 14
Cléarnefs alone hinders confufion of ideas, i. 146, § 3
Clear and obfcure ideas, i. 358, § 2 Colors, modes of colors, i. 209, § 4 Comments upon law, why infinite, ii. 19, $9
Complex ideas how made, i. 147, § 6: i. 152, § 1
In these the mind is more than pas- five, i. 153, § 2
Ideas reduceable to modes, fubftanc- es, and relations, i. 153, § S Comparing ideas, i. 146, § 4
Herein men excel brutes, i. 147, $5
Compounding ideas, i. 147, § 6 In this is a great difference between men and brutes, i. 147, § 7 Compulfion, i. 223, § 13 Confidence, ii. 216, § 7 Confufion of ideas, wherein it confifts,
i. 359-360, § 5, 6, 7
Causes of contufion in ideas, i. 360-
2. § 7, 8. 9: i. 363, § 12 Of ideas, grounded on a reference to names, i. 362-3, § 10, 11, 12 Its remedy, i. 363, § 12 Confufed ideas, i. 359, § 4 Confcience is our own opinion of our own actions, i. 62, § 8 Confcioufnefs makes the fame perfon, i. 313, § 10: i. 317, § 16
Probably annexed to the fame in- dividual, immaterial fúbstance, i. 322, § 25
Neceffary to thinking, i. 100, § 10, 11: i. 106, § 19 What, i. 106, § 19 Contemplation, i. 139, § 1 Creation, i. 303, § 2
Not to be denied, because we can- not conceive the manner how, ii. 185, § 19
DEFINITION, why the genus is used in definitions, i. 406, § 10 Defining of terms would cut off a great part of disputes, ii. 36, § 15 Demonstration, ii. 72, § 3
Not fo clear as intuitive knowledge, ii. 72, § 4: ii. 73, 6, 7 Intuitive knowledge neceffary in each step of a demonstration, ii. 73, $7
Not limited to quantity, ii. 74, § 9 Why that has been fuppofed, ii. 74, $ 10
Not to be expected in all cafes, ii." 192, $ 10
What, ii. 208, § 1 : ii. 236, § 15 Defire, i. 214, § 6
Is a state of uneafinefs, i. 232, § 31, 32
Is moved only by happiness, i. 238, $41
How far, i. 238, § 43
How to be raised, i. 241, § 46
Mifled by wrong judgement, i. 250, $ 60 Dictionaries, how to be made, ii. 58, $ 25
Difcerning, i. 145, § 1
The foundation of fome general maxims, i. 145, § 1 Discourse cannot be between two men, who have different names for the fame idea, or different ideas for the fame name, i. 118, § 5
Defpair, i. 215, § 11 Difpofition, i. 267, § 10 Difputing. The art of disputing pre- judicial to knowledge, ii. 31-3, § 6, 7, 8, 9
Destroys the use of language, ii. 33, $ 10
Difputes, whence, i. 168, § 28 Difputes, multiplicity of them owing
to the abuse of words, ii. 40, § 22 Are most about the fignification of words, ii. 48, § 7
Distance, i. 156, § 3
Diftinct ideas, i. 359, § 4 Divifibility of matter incomprehenfi- ble, i. 292, § 31
Dreaming, i. 210, § 1
Seldom in fome men, i. 103, § 14 Dreams for the most part irrational, i. 104, § 16
In dreams no ideas but of sensation, or reflection, i. 104, § 17 Duration, i. 168, § 1, 2
Whence we get the idea of duration, i. 169, § 3, 4, 5
Not from motion, i. 174, § 16 Its measure, i. 174, § 17, 18 Any regular periodical appearance, i. 175, § 19, 20
None of its measures known to be exact, i. 176, § 21
We only guefs them equal by the
train of our ideas, i. 176, § 21 Minutes, days, years, &c. not necef- fary to duration, i. 178, § 23 Change of the measures of duration, change not the notion of it, i. 178, $ 23
The measures of duration, as the revolutions of the fun, may be ap- plied to duration before the fun exifted, i. 178-9, § 24, 25, 28 Duration without beginning, i. 179, $ 26
How we measure duration, i. 180-1, $ 27, 28, 29 Recapitulation,concerning our ideas of duration, time, and eternity, i. 182, § 31
Duration and expansion compared, i. 182, § 1
They mutually embrace each other, i. 190, § 12
Confidered as a line, i. 189, § 11 Duration not conceivable by us without fucceffion, i. 190, § 12
EDUCATION, partly the cause of un- reasonableness, i. 388, § 3
Effect, i. 302, § 1 Enthufiafm, ii. 248 Described, ii. 250, § 6, 7 Its rife, ii. 249, § 5
Ground of persuasion must be ex- amined, and how, ii. 251, § 10 Firmness of it, no fufficient proof, ii. 254, § 12, 13
Fails of the evidence it pretends to, ii. 253, § 11 Envy, i. 215, § 13, 14
Error, what, ii. £57, § 1
Caufes of error, ii. 257, § 1
1. Want of proofs, ii. 257, § 2
2. Want of skill to use them, ii, 259, $5
3. Want of will to use them, ii. 260, $6
4. Wrong measures of probability, ii. 261, § 7
Fewer men affent to errors, than is fuppofed, ii. 268, § 18
Effence, real and nominal, i. 415, § 15 Suppofition of unintelligible, real effences of fpecies, of no ufe, i. 416, § 17
Real and nominal effences, in fimple ideas and modes always the fame, in substances always different, i. 416, § 18 Effences, how ingenerable and incor- ruptible, i. 417, § 19
Specific effences of mixed modes are of men's making, and how, i. 426, $ 3
Though arbitrary, yet not at ran- dom, i. 428, § 7
Of mixed modes, why called notions, i. 432, § 12 What, i. 436, § 2
Relate only to fpecies, i. 436, § 4 Real effences, what, i. 438, § 6 We know them not, i. 440, § 9 Our specific effences of fubftances
are nothing but collections of fen- fible ideas, i. 445, § 21
Nominal are made by the mind, i. 448, § 26
But not altogether arbitrarily, i. 451, $ 28.
Nominal effences of fubftances, how made, i. 451, § 28, 29.
Are very various, i. 494, § 30: i. 453, § 31
Of fpecies, are the abstract ideas, the names ftand for, i. 408, § 12: i. 417, § 19
Are of man's making, i. 408, § 12 But founded in the agreement of things, i. 413, § 13
Real effences determine not our spe- cies, i. 415, § 13 Every diftinct, abstract idea, with a name, is a diftinct effence of a dif- tinct fpecies, i. 414, § 14 Real effences of fubftances, not to be known, ii. 142, § 12 Effential, what, i. 436, § 2: i. 437, § 5 Nothing effential to individuals, i. 436, § 4
But to fpecies, i. 439, § 6
Effential difference, what, i. 437, § 5 Eternal verities, ii. 194, § 14 Eternity, in our disputes and reason- ings about it, why we are apt to blunder, i. 364, § 15
Whence we get its idea, i. 179, § 27 Evil, what, i. 238, § 42
Existence, an idea of fenfation and re- flection, i. 125, § 7
Our own existence we know intui- tively, ii. 176, § 2
And cannot doubt of it, ii. 176, § 2 Of created things, knowable only by our fenfes, ii. 186, § 1
Past existence known only by mem- ory, ii. 192, § 11
Expanfion, boundless, i. 184, § 2 Should be applied to space in gen- eral, i. 167, § 27
Experience often helps us, where we think not that it does, i. 135, § 8 Extafy, i. 210, § 1
Extenfion we have no diftinct ideas of very great, or very little exten- fion, i. 365, § 16
Of body, incomprehenfible, i. 287, $ 23, &c.
Denominations, from place and ex- tenfion, are many of them rela- tives, i. 305, § 5
And body not the fame thing, i. 159, $11
Its definition infignificant, i. 161, §
Of body and of space how distin- guifhed, i. 115, § 5: i. 167, § 27
F. FACULTIES of the mind first exer- çifed, i. 150, § 14
Are but powers, i. 225, § 17 Operate not, i. 225, § 18, 20 Faith and opinion, as diftinguished from knowledge, what, ii. 209, $
And knowledge, their difference, ii. 209, § 3
What, ii. 221, § 14
Not oppofite to reason, ii. 239, § 24 As contra-diftinguished to reason, what, ii. 241, § 2
Cannot convince us of any thing contrary to our reason, ii. 243, &c. § 5, 6, 8
Matter of faith is only divine rev- elation, ii. 246, § 9
Things above reafon are only prop.
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