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TO THE

ESSAY concerning HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

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

A.

BBOT of St. Martin, Vol. II. page 209, § 26

Abstraction, I. 138, § 9 Puts a perfect distance betwixt men and brutes, I. 139, § 10 What, II. 157, § 9 How, I. 143, § 1 Abstract ideas, why made, II. 128, $ 6, 7, 8

terms cannot be affirmed one of another, II. 232, § 1 Accident, II. 2, §.2 Actions, the best evidence of men's principles, I. 37, § 7 But two sorts of actions, I. 222, § 4: I. 281, § II Unpleasant may be made pleasant, and how, I. 266, § 69 Cannot be the same in different places, II. 46, § 2

Considered as modes, or as moral,

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Alteration, II. 41, § 2

Analogy useful in natural philoso-
phy, III. 101, § 12
Anger, I. 218, § 12, 14
Antipathy and sympathy, whence,
II. 140, § 7
Arguments of four sorts,

I. Ad verecundiam, III.123, 19
2. Ad ignorantiam, ibid. § 20
3. Ad hominem, ibid. § 21
4. Ad judicium, ibid. § 22. This

alone right, III. 124, § 22 Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in arithmetic, II. 342, § 19 Artificial things are most of them

collective ideas, II. 34, § 3 Why we are less liable to confusion, about artificial things, than about natural, II.221,40 Have distinct species, II.222, §41 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, ib. § 18: I. 24,

§ 19, 20: I. 68, § 19 Assent to probability, III. 89, § 3 Ought to be proportioned to the proofs, III. 145, § 1. Association of ideas, II.138,51,&c. This association how made, II. 139, $6

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Abstract not, ibid. § 10
Body. We have no more primary
ideas of body than of spirit,
II. 20, § 16

The primary ideas of body, ib.

17
The extension or cohesion of
body, as hard to be under-
stood, as the thinking of spi-
rit, II. 22-5, § 23, 24, 25,

26, 27
Moving of body by body, as
hard to be conceived as by
spirit, II. 26, § 28
Operates only by impulse, I.
113, $11
What, I. 152, § 11

The author's notion of his body,
2 Cor. v. 10. II. 69, and of
his own body, 1 Cor. xv. 35,
&c. II. 72. The meaning of
the same body, II. 68. Whe-
ther the word body be a simple
or complex term, II. 71. This
only a controversy about the
sense of a word, II. 80
But, its several significations, II.
231, $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,
I. 3, § 5

Cause, II. 40, I

And effect, ibid.

Certainty depends on intuition, II.
297, § I

Wherein it consists, II. 366,
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Of truth, III. I

To be had in very few general
propositions concerning sub-
stances, III. 17, § 13
Where to be had, III. 20, § 16
Verbal, III. 5, § 8
Real, ibid.

Sensible knowledge, the utmost
certainty we have of exist.
ence, III. 63, § 2

The author's notion of it pot
dangerous, II. 287, &c.
How it differs from assurance,
III. 96, § 6

Changelings, whether men or no,
II. 361, § 13, 14
Clearness alone hinders confusion
of ideas, I. 136, § 3
Clear and obscure ideas, II. 102,

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Complex ideas how made, I. 137,

§ 6: I. 143, §1

In these the mind is more than
passive, I. 144, § 2
Ideas reduceable to modes, sub-
stances, and relations, ib. § 3
Comparing ideas, I. 137, § 4
Herein men excel brutes, ib. § 5
Compounding ideas, ibid. § 6
In this is a great difference be-
tween men and brutes, ib. § 7
Compulsion, I. 227, § 13
Confidence, III. 97 § 7
Confusion of ideas, wherein it con-
sists, II. 103-4, § 5, 6, 7,
Causes of confusion in ideas, II.
104-6, 7, 8, 9: II. 107, § 12
Of ideas, grounded on a reference
to names, II. 106-7, § 10, 11,

12

Its remedy, II. 108, § 12
Confused ideas, II. 103, § 4
Conscience is our own opinion of

our own actions, I. 38, § 8
Consciousness makes the same per-
son, II. 52, § 10: II. 58, § 16
Probably annexed to the same
individual, immaterial sub.
stance, II. 63, § 25
Necessary to thinking, I. 83,
$10, 11: I. 89, § 19
What, ibid. § 19
Contemplation, I. 128, § 1
Creation, II. 41, § 2

Not to be denied, because we
cannot conceive the manner
how, III. 61, § 19

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Not limited to quantity, II. 301,
§ 9

Why that has been supposed, II.
302, § 10

Not to be expected in all cases,
III. 68, § 10
What, III. 88, § 1: III. 120,
§ 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, I. 249, § 46
Misled by wrong judgment, I.
259, 60
Dictionaries, how to be made, II.
284, $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, 1,
103, 5

Despair, I. 218, § 11
Disposition, I. 281, § 10
Disputing. The art of disputing
prejudicial to knowledge, II.
254-5, § 6, 7, 8, 9

Destroys the use of language,
II. 255, 10

Disputes, whence, I. 162, § 28
Disputes, multiplicity of them
owing to the abuse of words,
II. 263, § 22

Are most about the signification
of words, II. 272, § 7
Distance, II. 147, § 3
Distinct ideas, II. 103, § 4
Divisibility of matter incompre-
hensible, II. 28, § 31
Dreaming, I. 213, § 1

Seldom in some men, I. 85, § 14
Dreams for the most part irra
tional, I. 87, § 16

In dreams no ideas but of sensa-
tion, or reflection, ibid. § 17
Duration, I. 163, § 1, 2

Whence

Whence we get the idea of dura-
tion, I. 163-5, § 3, 4, 5
Not from motion, I. 169, § 16
Its measure, 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 only guess them equal by

the train of our ideas, ib. § 21
Minutes, days, years, &c. not
necessary to duration, I. 174,
823
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
eternity, I. 178, § 31
Duration and expansion compared,
I. 179, § 1

They mutually embrace each
other, I. 188, § 12
Considered as a line, I. 187, § II
Duration not conceivable by us
without succession, I. 188, 12

E.

DUCATION, partly the cause
of unreasonableness, II. 138,
$3
Effect, II. 40, § I
Enthusiasm, III. 134
Described, III. 137, § 6, 7
Its rise, III. 136, § 5
Ground of persuasion must be
examined, and how, III. 138,
$10

Firmness of it, no sufficient proof,
III. 142, § 12, 13
Fails of the evidence it pretends
to, III. 140, § II

Envy, I. 218, § 13, 14
Errour, what, III. 145, § 1
/ Causes of errour, ibid.

1. Want of proofs, ibid. § 2
2. Want of skill to use them,
III. 148, § 5

3. Want of will to use them,
III. 149, § 6

4. Wrong measures of probabi-
lity, III. 150, § 7

Fewer men assent to errours, than
is supposed, III. 158, § 18
Essence, real and nominal, II. 168,
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Supposition of unintelligible,real
essences of species, of no use,
II. 169, § 17

Real and nominal essences, in
simple ideas and modes always
the same, in substances always
different, II. 170, § 18
Essences, how ingenerable and in-
corruptible, II. 171, § 19
Specific essences of mixed modes
are of men's making, and how,
II. 182, § 3

Though arbitrary, yet not at
random, II. 184, § 7
Of mixed modes, why called no-
tions, II. 189, § 12
What, II, 193, § 2
Relate only to species, II. 194,
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Real essences, what, II. 196, § 6
We know them not, II. 198, § 9
Our specific essences of substan-

ces are nothing but collections
of sensible ideas, II. 205, $21
Nominal are made by the mind,
II. 208, § 26

But not altogether arbitrarily,
II. 211, § 28

Nominal essences of substances,
how made, II. 211, § 28, 29
Are very various, II. 213, § 30:
II. 214, § 31

Of species, are the abstract ideas,
the names stand for, II. 161,
§ 12: II. 171, § 19
Are of man's making, II. 165,
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