INDEX

TO THE

ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

A.

ABBOT of St. Martin, vol. i, p. 481.

Abstraction, i, 161. Puts a perfect distance betwixt men and beasts,
i, 162. What, i, 433.

Abstraction, how, i, 166.

Abstract ideas. why made, i, 418. Terms cannot be affirmed one of
another, ii. 18.

Accident, i, 293,

Actions, the best evidence of men's principles, i, 67. But two sorts of
actions, i, 138. Unpleasant may be made pleasant, and how, i, 277.
Cannot be the same in different places, i, 332. Considered as modes,
or as moral, i, 379.

Adequate ideas, i, 397. Adequate ideas we have not of any species of
substances, ii, 128.

Affirmations are only in concrete, ii, 18.

Agreement and disagreement of our ideas fourfold, ii, 70, 75.
Algebra, ii, 217.

Antipathy and sympathy, whence, i. 418.

Arguments, of four sorts, (1.) Ad verecundiam, ii, 253. (2.) Ad igno-
rantiam, ibid. (3.) Ad hominem, ibid. (4.) Ad judicium, ibid.
Arithmetic, the use of cyphers in arithemetic, ii, 120.

Artificial things are most of them collective ideas, i, 321. Why we
are less in confusion about artificial things, than about natural, i,
492. Have distinct species, i, 493. Assent to maxims, i, 49. Up-
on hearing and understanding the terms, i, 53. A mark of self-evi-
dence, i, 54. Not of innate, i, 55. Is to propositions, ii. 223.
Ought to be proportioned to the proofs, ii. 27.

Association of ideas, i, 416. This association how made, i. 418. Ill
effects of it as to antipathies, i, 418. And this in sects of philoso-
phy and religion, i, 422. Its ill influences as to intellectual habits, ib.
Assurance, ii, 229.

Atheism in the world, i. 86.

Atom, what, i, 333.

Authority relying on others opinious, one great cause of error, ii. 283.

B.

BEINGS, but two sorts, ii, 192. The eternal Being must be cogita
tive, ibid.

Belief what, ii, 223. To be without reason, is against our duty, ii, 254,
Best in our opinion, not a rule of God's actions, i, 91.

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, 148.
Blood, how it appears in a microscope, i, 305.

Brutes have no universal ideas, i, 162. Abstract not, ibid.

Body, we have no more primary ideas of body, than of spirit, i, 309. The
primary ideas of body, ibid. The extension or cohesion of body, as
hard to be understood, as the thinking of spirit, i, 311. Moving of
body by body, as hard to be understood as by spirit, i, 314. What,
i, 113.

BUT, it several significations, ii, 17.

CAPACITY, i, 170.

C.

Capacities, to know their extent useful, i, 34. To cure scepticism and
idleness, i, 36. Are suited to our present state, i, 35.

Cause and effect, i, 327.

Certainty depends on intuition, ii, 78. Wherein it consists, ii, 143.
Of truth, ibid. To be had in very few propositions concerning
substances, ii, 158 Where to be had, ii. 160. Verbal, ii, 147.
Real, ibid. Sensible knowledge, the utmost certainty we have of
existence, ii, 199.

Changelings, whether men or no, ii, 139.

Clearness alone hinders confusion of ideas, i. 159. Clear and obscure
ideas, ibid.

Colours, modes of colours, i, 227.

Comments upon law, why infinite, ii, 24.

Complex ideas, how made, i, 160.

In these the mind is more than

passive, i, 166. Ideas reducible to modes, substances, and rela
tions, i, 167.

Comparing ideas, i, 59.

Herein men excel brutes, i, 160.

Compounding ideas, ibid. In this is a great difference between men

and brutes, ibid.

Compulsion, i, 242.

Confidence, ii, 230.

Confusion of ideas, wherein it consists, i, 386.

Causes of confusion in ideas, i, 387-389.

Of ideas grounded on a

reference to names, i, 388. Its remedy, ii. 389.

Confused ideas, i, 386.

Conscience is our own opinion of our own actions, i, 68.

Consciousness the same, i, 338, 343.

Consciousness probably annexed to the same individual, immaterial
substance, i. 348. Necessary to thinking, ibid. What, i, 188, 115.
Contemplation, i, 152.

Creation, i, 328. Not to be denied, because we cannot conceive the
manner how, ii, 198.

D.

DEFINITION, why the genus is used in definitions, i, 434.
Defining of terms would cut off a great part of disputes, ii, 42.
Demonstration, ii, 80. Not so clear as intuitive knowledge, ib. In-
tuitive knowledge necessary in each step of a demonstration, ibid.
Not limitted to quantity, ii, 82. Why that has been supposed, ibid.
Not to be expected in all cases, ii, 205. What, ii, 222.

Desire, i. 233. Is a state of uneasinesss, i. 257. Is moved only by
How to be raised, i, 262. Mis-

happiness, i. 258. How far, i, 259.
led by wrong judgment, i, 273.
Dictionaries. how to be made, ii, 66.

Discerning, i. 157. The foundation of some general maxims, i, 158.
Discourse cannot be between two men, who have different names for
the same idea, or different ideas for the same name, i. 128.
Disposition, ii. 290.

Disputing. The art of disputing prejudicial to knowledge, ii, 37-39.
Destroys the use of language, ii, 39.

Disputes, whence, i, 183. Multiplicity of disputes owing to the abuse
of words, ii, 47. Are most about the signification of words, ii, 55.
Distance, i, 169.

Distinct ideas, i, 386.

Divisibility of matter incomprehensible, i, 316.

Dreaming, i, 229. Seldom in some men, i, 111.

Dreams, for the most part irrational, i, 115. In dreams, no ideas but
of sensation or reflection, ibid,

Duration, i, 183. Whence we get the idea of duration, i, 184-5. Not
from motion, i, 189. Its measure, i, 190. Any regular periodical ap-
pearances, i, 190-1. None of its measures known to be exact, i, 192.
We only guess them equal by the train of our ideas, ibid. Minutes,
days, years, &c. not necessary to duration, i, 194. Change of the
measures of duration, change not the notion of it, ibid. The mea-
sures of duration, as the revolutions of the sun, may be applied to
duration before the sun existed, ibid. Duration without beginning,
i, 195, How we may measure duration, i, 196-7. Recapitulation
and
concerning our ideas of duration of time and eternity, i, 198
expansion compared, i, 199. Considered as a line, i, 206. Duration
not conceivable by us without succession, i, 207.

E.

EDUCATION partly cause of unreasonableness, i, 417.
Effect, i. 327.

Enthusiasm, ii, 263. Described, ii, 265. Its rise, ibid. Ground of
Firmness of it not
persuasion must be examined, and how, ii, 267

sufficient proof, ii, 269. Enthusiasm fails of the evidence it pretends
to, ii, 68.

Envy, i, 234.

Errour, what, ii, 272. Causes of errour, ibid. (1.) Want of proofs, ii.
273. (2.) Want of skill to use them, ii, 275. (3.) Want of will to use
Fewer
them, ii, 275. (4.) Wrong measures of probability ii, 377.
men assent to errours than is supposed, ii, 284.
Essence, real and nominal, i, 444. Supposition of unintelligible real
essences of species of no use, i, 445. Real and nominal essences
in simple ideas and modes, always the same, in substances always
different, ibid.

Essences, how ingenerable and incorruptible, i, 446. Specific essences
of mixed modes are of men's making, and how, i, 446. Though arbi-
trary, yet not at random, i, 459. Of mixed modes, why called no-
tions, i, 483. What, i, 467. Relate only to species, i, 468. Real
essences, what, i, 469. We know them not, i, 471. Our specific
essences of substances are nothing but collections of sensible ideas,
i, 477.

Nominal are made by the mind, i, 480. But not altogether

arbitrarily, 483. Nominal essences of substances, how made, ii, 483.
Are very various, i, 485. Of species is the abstract idea the name
stands for, i, 446 Is of man's making, ii, 437. But founded in the
agreement of things, i. 442. Real essences determine not our spe-
cies, ibid. Every distinct abstract idea with a name, is a distinct
essence of a distinct species, i, 443. Real essences of substances
not to be known, ii, 158.

Essential, what, i 467-469. Nothing essential to individuals, i, 468,
but to species, i. 470. Essential difference, what, i 469.
Eternal verities, ii. 207.

Eternity, in our disputes and reasonings about it, why we are apt to
blunder, i 391. Whence we get its idea, i. 196.

Evil, what, ii. 16.

Existence an idea of sensation and reflection, i, 133. Our own exist-
ence, we know intuitively, ii 189. and cannot doubt of, ibid. Of
created things, knowable only by our senses, ii, 199. Past existence
known only by memory, ii, 105.

Expansion boundless, i. 199. Should be applied to space in general,

i. 181.

Experience often helps us where we think it does not, i. 148.
Extasy, i. 230.

Extension, we have no distinct ideas of every great or very little ex-
tension, i. 392. Of body, incomprehensible, i. 811, &c. Denomi.
nations from place and extension are many of them relatives, i 330.
and body, not the same thing, i. 173. Its definition insignificant,
i. 175. Of body and of space, how distinguished, i. 128, 181.

F.

FACULTIES of the mind first exercised, i, 226. are but powers i,
163. operate not, i, 145.
Faith and opinion, as distinguished from knowledge, what, ii, 223.
And knowledge, their difference, ibid. What, ii. 235. Not oppo-
site to reason, ii, 254. As contradistinguished to reason, what,
ii, 255. Cannot convince us of any thing contrary to our reason,
ii, 258-60 Matter of faith is only divine revelation, ii, 261.
Things above reason are only proper matters of faith, ii, 260, 261.
Falsehood, ii, 148,

Fear, i. 234.

Figure, i, 170.

Figurative speech an abuse of language, ii, 52.

Finite and infinite modes of quantity i. 212. All positive ideas of
quantity finite, i, 217,

Forms, substantial forms distinguish not species, i, 472.

Free, how far a man is free, 1, 246. A man not free to will, or not to
will, i. 247, 248,

Freedom belongs only to agents, i, 245. Wherein it consists, i. 249.
Free will, liberty belongs not to the will, i, 243. Wherein consists
that which is called free, i, 248.

G.

GENERAL ideas, how made, i, 161. Knowledge, what ii, 131.
Propositions cannot be known to be true, without knowing the es-
sence of the species, ii, 150. Words, how made, i. 432. Belong
only to signs, i, 435.

Gentlemen should not be ignorant, ii, 276.

Genus and species, what, i. 434.

Are but Latin names for sorts, i,
461. Is but a partial conception of what is in the species, i, 487.
Adjusted to the end of speech, i, 488. Are made in order to gene-
ra l names, i, 491.

Generation, i 328.

GOD immoveable, because infinite, i, 310, Fills immensity as well as
eternity, i. 200. His duration not like that of the creatures, i, 207.
An idea of God not innate, i, 86. The existence of God evident
and obvious to nature, i, 88. The notion of a God, once got, is
the likeliest to spread, and be continued, i, 88-90. Idea of God
late and imperfect, i. 93. contrary, ibid. inconsistent, i, 93. The best
notions of God got by thought and application, i, 93. Notions of God
frequently not worthy of him, i, 94. The being of a God certain,
ibid. As evident as that the three angles of a triangle are equal to
two right ones, i, 101. More certain than any other existence
without us, ii, 190. The idea of God not the only proof of his ex-
istence, ii. 191. The being of a God the foundation of morality and
divinity, ibid. How we make our idea of God, i, 317.
Gold is fixed; the various signification of this proposition, i, 498.
Water strained though it, i, 128. Good and evil, what, i. 232.
greater good determines not the will, i. 256-160. Why, i, 262.
271, &c. Twofold, i. 272. Works on the will only by desire, i. 262.
Desire of good, how to be raised, ibid.

HABIT, i. 290.

H.

Habitual actions pass often without our notice, i. 132.
Ilair, how it appears in a microscope, i. 304.

The

Happiness, what, i. 259. What happiness men pursue, ibid. How we
come to rest in narrow happiness, i, 271.

Hardness, what, i. 127.

Hatred, i. 235.

Heat and cold, how the sensation of them both is produced by the
same water at the same time, i. 141.

History, what history of most authority, ii, 232.

Hope, i. 234.

Hypotheses, theirfuse, ii. 216, Are to be built on matter of fact, i. 109.

I.

ICE and water, whether distinct species, i. 475.

Idea, what, i. 136. Their original in children, i. 106. None innate,
i. 95. Because not remembered, i, 97. Are what the mind is em-
ployed about, in thinking, i. 104. All from sensation, or reflection,
ibid. How this is to be understood, ii. 90. Their way of getting,
observable in children, i. 106. Why some have more, some fewer
ideas, i. 107. Of reflection got late, and in some very negligently,
ibid. Their beginning and increase in children, i. 116-117. Their
original in sensation and reflection, ibid. Of one sense, i. 123.
Want names, i. ibid. Of more than one sense, i. 129. Of reflec-
tion, ibid. Of sensation and reflection, i. 130. As in the mind,
and in things, must be distinguished, i. 136. Which first accidental,
not material to know, i. 147. Of sensation altered by the judgment,
ibid. Principally those of sight, i. 149. Of reflection, i. 164. Sim-