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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.

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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, § 11
Unpleasant may be made plea-
sant, and how, I. 266, § 69
Cannot be the same in different
places, II. 46, § 2
Considered as modes, or as moral,
II. 98, § 15
Adequate ideas, II. 116, § 1, 2
We have not of any species of
substances, II. 348, § 26
Affirmations are only in concrete,
II. 232, § 1

Agreement and disagreement of
our ideas fourfold, II. 288,
§ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Algebra, III. 82, § 15

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,

1. 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 confu-
sion, about artificial things,
than about natural, II.221, §40
Have distinct species, II.222,541
Assent to maxims, I. 17, § 10
Upon hearing and understanding

the terms, I. 22, § 17, 18
Assent, a mark of self-evidence,
1. 23, § 18

Not of innate, ib. § 18: I. 24,
§ 19, 20: 1.68, § 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

111

Ill effects of it, as to antipathies,
II. 140, § 7,8: II. 143, §15
And this in sects of philosophy
and religion, II. 144, § 18
Its ill influences as to intellec-
tual habits, ibid. § 17

Assurance, III. 96, § 6
Atheism in the world, I. 57, § 8
Atom, what, II. 46, § 3

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

Authority; relying on others opi- But, its several significations, II.

nions, one great cause of er-

rour, III. 157, §17

B.

BEINGS, but two sorts, III.

The eternal being must be cogi-
tative, ibid. § 10
Belief, what, 111. 89, § 3

To believe without reason, is
against our duty, III. 125,
§24

Best in our opinion, not a rule of
God's actions; 1. 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, II. 15, § LI

Brutes have no universal ideas, I.
139, § 10, 11
Abstract not, ibid. § to
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

231, §5

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297, §

I

Wherein it consists, II. 366,
§18

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 not
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,
§2

Colours, modes of colours, I. 210,
§4
Comments upon law, why infinite,
II. 239, § 9

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Complex

Complex ideas how made, I. 137,
§ 6: 1. 143, § 1

In these the mind is more than
passive, 1. 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, § 10:11.58, § 16
Probably annexed to the same
individual, immaterial sub-
stance, II. 63, § 25
Necessary to thinking, I. 83,
§10, 11: 1. 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

D.

EFINITION, why the genus
is used in
§10

158,

Defining of terms would cut off a
great part of disputes, II. 259,
§ 15
Demonstration, II. 299, § 3

Not so clear as intuitive know-
ledge, ibid. § 4: II. 300, § 6, 7
Intuitive knowledge necessary in
each step of a demonstration,
ibid. §7

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, I.

103, §5

Despair, I. 218, § 11
Disposition, 1. 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,
§23

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, § 1
Duration not conceivable by us
without succession, 1.188,§12

E.

EDUCATION, partly the cause

of unreasonableness, II. 138,

§3
Effect, II. 40, § 1
Enthusiasm, III. 134

Described, III. 137, § 6, 7
Its rise, III. 136, § 5
Ground of persuasion_must be
examined, and how, III. 138,

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

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,
§ 15
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,
§4
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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