Ought to be proportioned to the proofs,
642, s 1.
Association of ideas, 336, s 1, &c.
This association how made, 338, s 6.
Il effects of it, as to antipathies, 338,
s 7, 8; 340, s 15. And this in sects of
philosophy and religion, 341, s 18. Its
ill influence as to intellectual habits, ib.
s 17.
Assurance, 602, s 6.
Atheism in the world, 46, s 8.
Atom, what, 260, s 3.
Authority: relying on others' opin-
ions, one great cause of error, 652, s 17.
Belief, what, 596, s 3. To believe
without reason, is against our duty, 624,
8 24.
Best in our opinion, not a rule of
God's actions, 51, s 12.
Blind man, if made to see, would not
know which a globe, which a cube, by
Analogy, useful in natural philoso his sight, though he knew them by his
phy, 605, s 12.
Anger, 173, 8 12, 14.
Antipathy and sympathy, whence,
338, s 7.
Arguments of four sorts: 1. Ad vere-
cundiam, 624, s 19. 2. Ad ignoran-
tiam, ib. 8 20. 3. Ad hominem, 625,
4. Ad judicium, ib. s 22. This
s 21.
alone right, ib. s 22.
Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in
arithmetic, 505, s 19,
Artificial things are most of them
collective ideas, 250, s 3. Why we are
less liable to confusion about artificial
things, than about natural, 403, 8 40.
Have distinct species, ib. s 41.
Assent to maxims, 15, s 10. Upon
hearing and understanding the terms,
Assent, a mark of self-evidence, 19,
s 18. Not of inuate, 19, s 18—20; 56,
$ 19.
Assent to probability, 596, s 3.
Blood, how it appears in a micro-
scope, 235, s 11.
Brutes have no universal ideas, 111,
s 10, 11. Abstract not, 111, s 10.
Body. We have no more primary
ideas of body than of spirit, 239, s 16.
The primary ideas of body, ib. s 17.
The extension or cohesion of body, as
hard to be understood, as the thinking
of spirit, 241, s 23-2. Moving of bo-
dy by body, as hard to be conceived
as by spirit, 244, s 28. Operates only
by impulse, 90, s 11. What, 121, s 11.
The author's notion of the body, 2 Cor.
v. 10, 280. And of his own body, 1 Cor,
xv. 35, &c. 283. The meaning of the
same body, 278. Whether the word
body be a simple or complex term, 281.
This only a controversy about the sense
of a word, 292.
But, its several significations, 410,
CAPACITY, 117, s 3.
Capacities, to know their extent, use-
ful, 2, 8 4. To cure scepticism and
idleness, 4, s 6. Are suited to our pre-
sent state, 3, s 5.
Cause, 255, s 1. And effect, ib.
Certainty depends on intuition, 464,
8 1.
Wherein it consists, 524, s 18.
Of truth, 524, s 1. To be had in very
few general propositions, concerning
substances, 538, s 13. Where to be
had, 540, s 16. Verbal, 528, s8. Real,
ib. Sensible knowledge, the utmost
certainty we have of existence, 575, s 2.
The author's notion of it not danger-
ous, 456, &c. How it differs from as-
surance, 602, s 6.
Changelings, whether men or no,
Clearness alone hinders confusion of
ideas, 108, s 3.
Clear and obscure ideas, 308, s 2.
Colours, modes of colours, 167, s 4.
Comments upon law, why infinite,
417, s 9.
Complex ideas how made, 109, s 6;
114, s . In these the mind is more
than passive, 115, s 2. Ideas reducible
to modes, substances, and relations, ib.
Comparing ideas, 109, s 4.
men excel brutes, ib. s 5.
Compounding ideas, ib. s 6.
is a great difference between men and
brutes, 110, 8 7.
Compulsion, 180, s 13.
Confidence, 603, s 7.
Confusion of ideas, wherein it con-
sists, 309, s 5-7. Causes of confusion
in ideas, 310, 311, s 7-9; 312,s 12. Of
ideas, grounded on a reference to names,
311, 312, s 10-12. Its remedy, 312.
Confused ideas, 309, s 4. [s 12,
Conscience is our own opinion of our
own actions, 31, s 8.
Consciousness makes the same per-
son, 265, s 10; 269, s 16. Probably
annexed to the same individual, imma-
terial substance, 274, s 25. Necessary
to thinking, 66, s 10, 11; 72, s 19.
What, ib. s 19.
Contemplation, 102, s 1.
Creation, 255, s 2. Not to be denied,
because we cannot conceive the man-
ner how, 574, s 19.
DEFINITION, why the genus is
used in definitions, 352, s 10.
Defining of terms would cut off a
great part of disputes, 433, s 15.
Demonstration, 466, s 3.
Not so
clear as intuitive'knowledge,lib. s 4-6;
467, s 7. Intuitive knowledge neces
sary in each step of a demonstration,
ib. s 7. Not limited to quantity, 468,
89. Why that has been supposed, ib.
s 10. Not to be expected in all cases,
580, s 10. What, 595, s 1; 622, s 15.
Desire, 172, s 6. Is a state of unea-
siness, 188-9, s 31, 32. Is moved only
by happiness, 194, s 41. How far, 195,
s 43.
How to be raised, 197, s 46.
Misled by wrong judgment, 206, s 60.
Dictionaries, how to be made, 455,
Discerning, 107, s 1. The founda-
tion of some general maxims, 107, s 1.
Discourse, cannot be between two
men, who have different names for the
same idea, or different ideas for the
same name, 83, s 5.
Despair, 173, s 11.
Disposition, 223, s 10.
Disputing: the art of disputing pre-
judicial to knowledge, 428—430, s 6—9.
Destroys the use of language, 430, s 10.
Disputes, whence, 128, s 28. Mul
tiplicity of them owing to the abuse of
words, 437, s 22. Are most about the
signification of words, 444, s 7.
Distance, 117, s 3.
Distinct ideas, 309, s 4.
Divisibility of matter incomprehen-
sible, 246, s 31.
Dreaming, 169, s 1. Seldom in some
men, 69, s 14.
Dreams, for the most part irrational,
70, s 16. In dreams no ideas but of
sensation or reflection, ib. s 17.
Duration, 129, § 1, 2. Whence we get
the idea of duration, 180-1, s 3-5. Not
from motion, 134, s 16. Its measure,
ib. s 17, 18. Any regular periodical
appearance, 185, s 19, 20. None of its
measures known to be exact, 186, s 21.
We only guess them equal by the train
of our ideas, ib. s 21. Minutes, days,
years, &c. not necessary to duration,
138, s 23. Change of the measures of
duration, change not the notion of it,
ib. s 23. The measures of duration, as
the revolutions of the sun, may be ap-
plied to duration before the sun exist-
ed, 138-140, s 24, 25, 28. Duration
without beginning, 139, s 26. How
we measure duration, 189, 140, s 27-9.
Recapitulation, concerning our ideas of
duration, time, and eternity, 141, s 81.
Duration and expansion compared,
142, sl. They mutually embrace each
other, 150, s 12. Considered as a line,
148, s 11. Duration not conceivable
by us without succession, 149, s 12.
EDUCATION, partly the cause of
unreasonableness, 337, s 3.
Enthusiasm, 623. Described, 635-6,
s 6, 7. Its rise, 635, s 5. Ground of
persuasion must be examined, and how,
637, s 10. Firmness of it no sufficient
proof, 639, s 12, 13. Fails of the evi-
dence it pretends to, 688, s 11.
Envy, 173, s 13, 14.
Error, what, 642, s 1. Causes of
error, ib. 1. Want of proofs, ib. s 2.
2. Want of skill to use them, 644, s 5.
3. Want of will to use them, 645, s 6.
4. Wrong measures of probability,646,
s 7, Fewer men assent to errors, than
is supposed, 653, s 18.
Essence, real and nominal, S61, s 15.
Supposition of unintelligible, real es-
sences of species, of no use, 362, s 17.
Real and nominal essences, in simple
ideas and modes always the same, in
substance always different, ib. s 18.
Essences, how ingenerable and incor-
ruptible, 363, s 19. Specific essences
of mixed modes are of men's making,
and how, 372, s 3. Though arbitrary,
yet not at random, 374, s 7. Of mixed
modes, why called notions, 378, s 12.
What, 381, s 2. Relate only to species,
ib. s 4. Real essences, what, 383, s 6.
We know them not, 385, s 9. Our
specific essences of substances, nothing
but collections of sensible ideas, 390,
s 21. Nominal are made by the mind,
394, s 26. But not altogether arbi-
trarily, 395, s 28. Nominal essences
of substances, how made, ib. s 28, 29.
Are very various, 396, s 30; 398, s 31.
Of species, are the abstract ideas the
names stand for, 355, s 12; 363, s 19.
Are of man's making, 358, s 12. But
founded in the agreement of things,
359, s 13. Real essences determine not
our species, 360, s 13. Every distinct,
abstract idea, with a name, is a distinct
essence of a distinct species, ib. s 14.
Real essences of substances, not to be
known, 537, s 12.
Essential, what, 381, s 2; 382, 8 5.
Nothing essential to individuals, 381,
s 4. But to species, 383, 86. Essen-
tial difference, what, 382, s 5.
Eternal verities, 582, s 14.
Eternity, in our disputes and reason-
ings about it, why we are apt to blun-
der, 314, s 15. Whence we get its
idea, 139, s 27.
Evil, what, 194, s 42.
Existence, an idea of sensation and
reflection, 87, 8 7. Our own existence
we know intuitively, 565, s 2. And
cannot doubt of it, ib. Of creatable
things, knowable only by our senses,
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Faith and opinion, as distinguished
from knowledge, what, 596, s 2, 3.
And knowledge, their difference, ib.
s 3. What, 608, s 14. Not oppo-
site to reason, 625, s 24. As contra-
distinguished to reason, what, 627, s 2.
Cannot convince us of any thing con.
trary to our reason, 629, &c. s 5, 6, 8.
Matter of faith is only divine revela-
tion, 632, s 9. Things above reason
are only proper matters of faith, 631,
s 7; 632, & 9.
Falsehood, what it is, 528, s 9.
Fancy, 106, s 8.
Fantastical ideas, 316, s 1.
Fear, 175, s 10.
Figure, 118, s 5, 6.
Figurative speech, an abuse of lan-
guage, 441, s 34.
Finite, and infinite, modes of quan-
tity, 154, s 1. All positive ideas of
quantity, finite, 158, s 8.
Forms, substantial forms distinguish
not species, 386, s 10.
Free, how far a man is so, 184, s 21.
A man not free to will, or not to will,
184, 185, s 22—24.
Freedom belongs only to agents, 182,
Wherein it consists, 186, s 37.
Free will, liberty belongs not to the
will, 180, 8 14. Wherein consists that
which is called free will, 185, s 24;
198, s 47.
GENERAL ideas, how made, 110,
89. Knowledge, what, 514, s 31..
Propositions cannot be known to be
true, without knowing the essence of
the species, 530, s 4. Words, how
made, 347-8, s 6-8. Belong only to
signs, 353, s 11.
Gentlemen should not be ignorant,
646, 8 6.
Geans and species, what, 352, s 10.
Are but Latin names for sorts, 376, s 9.
Is but a partial conception of what is
in the species, 398, s 32. And species,
adjusted to the end of speech, $99, s 32.
And species, are made in order to ge-
neral names, 402, s 39.
Generation, 255, § 2.
God immoveable, because infinite,
240, s 21. Fills immensity, as well as
eternity, 143, s 3.
His duration not
like that of the creatures, 149, s 12. An
idea of God not innate 46, s 8. The
existence of a God evident, and obvious
to reason, 48, s 9. The notion of a God
once got, is the likeliest to spread and
be continued, 50, s 9, 10. Idea of God,
late and imperfect, 52, s 13. Contrary,
53, 54, s 15, 16. Inconsistent, 53, s 15.
The best notions of God, got by thought
and application, 54, s 15. Notions of
God frequently not worthy of him, ib.
The being of a God certain, ib.;
proved, 565, s 1. As evident, as that
the three angles of a triangle are equal
to two right ones, 59, s 22. Yea, as
that two opposite augles are equal, 55,
More certain than any other ex-
istence without us, 567, s 6. The idea
of God not the only proof of his exist-
ence, ib. s 7. The being of a God, the
foundation of morality and divinity, ib.
8 7. How we make our idea of God,
247, s 33, 34.
Gold is fixed; the various significa-
tions of this proposition, 408, s 50. Wa-
ter strained through it, 82, s 4.
Good and evil, what, 171, s 2; 194,
The greater good determines not
the will, 190, s 35; 192, s 38; 196, 8 44.
Why, ib. s 44; 197, s 46; 205, &c.;
s 59, 60, 64, 65, 68. Twofold, 206, s 61.
Works on the will only by desire, 197,
$ 46. Desire of good how to be raised,
197, 8 46, 47.
HABIT, 223, s 10.
Habitual actions pass often without
our notice, 100, s 10.
Hair, how it appears in a micro-
scope, 235, s 11.
Happiness, what, 194, s 42. What
happiness men pursue, 195, s 43. How
we come to rest in narrow happiness,
205, 206, s 59, 60.
Hardness, what, 82, s 4.
Hatred, 172, s 5; 173, s 14.
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s 2; 53, s 13. None innate, 55, s 17.
Because not remembered, 56, s 20. Are
what the mind is employed about in
thinking, 62, s 1. All from sensation or
reflection, ib. s 2, &c. How this is to
be understood, 475. Their way of get-
ting, observable in children, 64, $6.
Why some have more, some fewer,
ideas, 65, 87. Of reflection got late,
and in some very negligently, ib. s 8.
Thier beginning and increase in child-
ren, 73, 74, s 21—24 Their original in
sensation and reflection, 74, s 24. Of
one sense, 78, s 1. Want names, 79, s 2.
Of more than one sense, 84. Of reflec-
tion, ib. s 1. Of sensation and reflec-
tion, ib. s 1. As in the mind, and in
things, must be distinguished, 89, s 7.
Not always resemblances, 91, s 15, &c.
Which are first, is not material to know,
98, s 7. Of sensation often altered by
the judgment, 99, s 8. Principally those
of sight, 100, s 9. Of reflection, 113,
s 14. Simple ideas men agree in, 198,
s 28. Moving in a regular train in our
minds, 132, s 9. Such as have degrees,
want names, 167, s 6. Why some have
names, and others not, ib. s 7. Orig-
inal, 217, s 73. All complex ideas re-
solvable into simple, 221, s 9. What
simple ideas have been most modified,
222, s 10. Our complex idea of God,
and other spirits, common in every
thing but infinity, 248, s 36. Clear and
obscure, 308, s 2. Distinct and con-
fused, 309, s 4. May be clear in one
part and obscure in another, $13, s 13.
Real and fantastical, 316, s 1. Simple,
are all real, 315, s 2. And adequate,
319, s 2. What ideas of mixed modes
are fantastical, 317, s 4. What ideas
of substances are fantastical, 318, s 5.
Adequate and inadequate, 319, s 1.
How said to be in things, ib. s 2. Modes
are all adequate ideas, 320, s 3. Un-
less as referred to names, 321, s 4, 5. Of
substances inadequate, 325, s 11. 1. As
referred to real essences, 321, s 6; 523,
s 7. 2. As referred to a collection of
Simple ideas
Heat and cold, how the sensation of simple ideas, 324, s 8.
are perfect xruma, 326, s 12.
stances are perfect ixruña, ib. s 15. Of
modes are perfect archetypes, ib. s 14.
True or false, 327, s 1, &c. When
false, 334-5, s 21-25. As bare appear-
ances in the mind, neither true nor
false, $27, s 3. As referred to other
men's ideas, or to real existence, or
to real essences, may be true or false,
328, 8 4, 5. Reason of such refer-
ence, 328-9, s 6-8. Simple ideas refer-
red to other men's ideas, least apt to
be false, 329, s 9. Complex ones, in
this respect, more apt to be false, espe-
cially those of mixed modes, 330, s 10.
Simple ideas referred to existence, are
all true, $31, s 14; 332, s 16. Though
they should be different in different
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are all true, 332, s 17. Of substances
when false, 334, s 21, &c. When right
or wrong, 356, s 26. That we are in.
capable of, 507, s 23. That we cannot
attain, because of their remoteness, 508,
s 24. Because of their minuteness, 509,
s 25. Simple, have a real conformity to
things, 516, s 4. And all others, but of
substances, ib. s 5. Simple, cannot be
got by definition of words, 367, s 11. But
only by experience, 369, s 14. Of mix-
ed modes, why most compounded, 378,
s 13. Specific, of mixed modes, how
at first made: instance in kinneah and
niouph, 404-5, s 44, 45. Of substan-
ces: instance in zahab, 406, s 46, 47.
Simple ideas and modes have all ab
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The use of this term not dangerous, 5,
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notion, sense, meaning, &c. 459.
Identical propositions teach nothing,
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1. For
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Immoralities of whole nations, 51,
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Immortality, not annexed to any
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Impenetrability, 80, s 1.
Imposition of opinions unreasonable,
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Impossibile est idem esse et non esse,
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Inadequate ideas, 308, s 1.
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We have no
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Identity, not an innate idea, 44-5,
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