ESSAY concerning HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.
The Volumes are distinguished by the Roman Numerals I, II, preceding the Number of the Page, and those Figures which follow § refer to the Section.
ABBOT of St. Martin, Vol. I.
Abstraction, I. 138, § 9
Puts a perfect distance betwixt men and brutes, I. 139, § 10 What, I. 438, § 9 How, I. 143, § 1 Abstract ideas, why made, I. 409, § 6, 7, 8
terms cannot be affirmed one of another, II. 4, § 1 Accident, I. 283, § 2
Actions, the best evidence of men's principles, I. 37, § 7
But two sorts of actions, I. 4: I. 281, § 11 Unpleasant may be made plea-
sant, and how, I. 266, § 69 Cannot be the same in different places, I. 327, § 2 Considered as modes, or as moral, I. 379, § 15
Adequate ideas, I. 397, § 1, 2 $ We have not of any species of substances, II. 120, 26 Affirmations are only in concrete, 11. 4, § !
Agreement and disagreement of our ideas fourfold, II. 60, § 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Algebra, II. 220, § 15
Alteration, I. 322, § 2
Analogy, useful in natural philoso phy, II. 238, § 12 Anger, I. 218, § 12, 14 Antipathy and sympathy, whence, I. 421, § 7 Arguments of four sorts,
I. Ad verecundiam, II. 260, § 19 2. Ad ignorantiam, ibid, § 20 3. Ad hominem, ibid. § 21 4. Ad judicium, ibid. § 22. This alone right, II. 261, § 22 Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in arithmetic, II. 114, § 19 Artificial things are most of them collective ideas, I. 315, § 3 Why we are less liable to confusion, about artificial things, than about natural, I. 50, 40 Have distinct species, I. 503,941 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, ibid. § 18: I. 24, $19, 20: I. 68, § 19 Assent to probability, II. 226, § 3 Ought to be proportioned to the proofs, II. 282, § 1 Association of ideas, 1.419, § 1, &c. This association how made, I. 420, § 6
Ill effects of it, as to antipathies, I. 421, § 7, 8: I. 424, § 15 And this in sects of philosophy and religion, I. 425, § 18 Its ill influences as to intellectual habits, ibid. 17 Assurance, II. 233, § 6 Atheism in the world, I. 57, § 8 Atom, what, I. 327, § 3 Authority; relying on others opi- nions, one great cause of errour, II. 294, 17.
EINGS, but two sorts, II. 191, 9
The eternal being must be cogi- tative, ibid. §10 Belief, what, II. 226, § 3 To believe without reason, is against our duty, II. 262, § 24 Best in our opinion, not a rule of God's actions, I. 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, I. 296, § 11 Brutes have no universal ideas, I. 139, § 10, 11
Abstract, not, ibid. § 10 Body. We have no more primary ideas of body than of spirit, 1. 301, § 16
The primary ideas of body, ibid.
&c. I. 353. The meaning of the same body, I. 349. Whe. ther the word body be a simple or complex term, I. 352. This only a controversy about the sense of a word, I. 361 But, its several significations, II. 3, § 5 - -
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, 1. 3, § 5
Cause, I. 321, § 1 And effect, ibid. Certainty depends on intuition, II. 69, § 1
Wherein it consists, II. 138, § 18 Of truth, II. 138
To be had in very few general propositions, concerning sub- stances, II. 154, § 13 Where to be had, II. 157, § 16 Verbal, II. 142, § 8 Real, ibid.
Sensible knowledge, the utmost certainty we have of existence, II. 200, § 2
The author's notion of it not dangerous, II. 59, &c. How it differs from assurance, II. 233, § 6
Changelings, whether men or no, II. 133, 13, 14 Clearness alone hinders confusion of ideas, I. 136, § 3 Clear and obscure ideas, I. 383, § 2 Colours, modes of colours, I. 210,
Comparing ideas, I. 137, § 4 Herein men excel brutes, ibid. § 5 Compounding ideas, ibid. § 6 In this is a great difference be- tween men and brutes, ibid. § 7 Compulsion, I. 227, § 13 Confidence, II. 234, § 7 Confusion of ideas, wherein it con-
sists, I. 384-5, § 5, 6, 7 Causes of confusion in ideas, I. 385-7, 7, 8, 9: 1. 388, § 12 Of ideas, grounded on a reference
to names, I. 387-8, § 10, 11, 12 Its remedy, 1. 389, 12 Confused ideas, I. 384, § 4 Conscience is our own opinion of
our own actions, I. 38, § 8 Consciousness makes the same per-
son, I. 333, § 10: I. 339, § 16 Probably annexed to the same individual, immaterial sub- stance, I. 344, § 25 Necessary to thinking, I. 83, 10, 11: 1, 89, § 19 What, ibid. § 19 Contemplation, I, 128, 1 Creation, I. 322, § 2
Not to be denied, because we cannot conceive the manner how, II. 198, § 19
DEFINITION, why the genus
is used in definitions, I. 439,
610 Defining of terms would cut off a great part of disputes, II. 31, § 15 Demonstration, II. 71, § 3 Not so clear as intuitive know-
ledge, ibid. 4: II. 72, § 6,7 Intuitive knowledge necessary in each step of a demonstration, ibid. § 7
Not limited to quantity, II. 73, 59
Why that has been supposed, II. 74, § 10
Not to be expected in all cases, II. 205, § 10
What, II. 225, § 1: II.257, § 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, 1. 249, 46 Misled by wrong judgment, I. .259, § 60 Dictionaries, how to be made, II. 56, 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, L 103, § 5
Despair, I. 218, § 11 Disposition, I. 281, § 10 Disputing. The art of disputing prejudicial to knowledge, II. 25-7, 6, 7, 8, 9
Destroys the use of language, II. 27, 10
Disputes, whence, I. 162, § 28 Disputes,multiplicityof them owing to the abuse of words, II. 35, $22
Are most about the signification of words, II. 44, § 7 Distance, I. 147, § 3 Distinct ideas, I. 384, § 4 Divisibility of matter incompre hensible, I. 309, § 31 Dreaming, I. 213, § 1
Seldom in some men, I. 85, § 14 Dreams for the most part irrational, I. 87, § 16
In dreams no ideas but of sensa- tion, or reflection, ibid. § 17 Duration, I. 163, § 1, 2 Whence we get the idea of dura
tion, I. 163-5, § 3, 4, 5 Not from motion, I. 169, § 16 Its measures, 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, ibid. § 21 Minutes, days, years, &c. not ne- cessary to duration, I. 174,523 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 and eternity, I. 178, § 31 Duration and expansion compared, I. 179, § i
They mutually embrace each other, I. 188, § 12 Considered as a line, I. 187, § 11 Duration not conceivable by us without succession, I.188,$12
DUCATION, partly the cause of unreasonableness, I. 419, §3 Effect, I. 321, § 1 Enthusiasm, II. 271 Described, II. 174, § 6, 7 Its rise, II. 273, § 5 Ground of persuasion must be ex-
amined, and how, II. 275, § 10 Firmness of it, no sufficient
proof, II. 279, 12, 13 Fails of the evidence it pretends
to, II. 277, § 11 Envy, I. 218, § 13, 14 Errour, what, II. 282, 61
1. Want of proofs, ibid. § 2 2. Want of skill to use them, II. 285, §5
3. Want of skill to use them, II. 282, 6
4. Wrong measures of probabi lity, II. 287, $7 Fewer men assent to errours, than is supposed, II. 295,
Essence, real and nominal, I. 449, $15 Supposition of unintelligible, real essences of species, of no use, I. 450, 17
Real and nominal essences,in sim- ple ideas and modes always the same, in substances always different, I. 451, § 18 Essences, how ingenerable and in- corruptible, I. 452, § 19 Specific essences of mixed modes are of men's making, and how, I. 463, § 3
Though arbitrary, yet not at random, I. 465, § 7 Of mixed modes, why called no- tions, I. 470, § iz What, I. 474, § 2
Relate only to species, I. 475, § 4 Real essences, what, I. 477,§6 We know them not, I. 479, §9 Our specific essences of substances
are nothing but collections of sensible ideas, I. 486 § 21 Nominal are made by the mind, I. 489,26
But not altogether arbitrarily, I. 492, § 28
Nominal essences of substances, how made, I. 492-3, § 28, 29 Are very various, I. 494, § 30: I. 495, § 31
Of species, are the abstract ideas, the names stand for, I. 442, § 12: 1.452, § 19 Arc of man's making, 1.446, 12 Eut founded in the agreement of things, 1.447, § 13 Real essences determine not our species, I. 448, § 13 Every distinct, abstract idea, with a name, is a distinct essence of a distinct species, ibid. § 14 Real essences of substances, not to be known, II. 153, § 12 Essential, what, I. 474, § 2: I. 476, 5
Nothing essential to individuals, 1. 475, § 4
But to species, I. 477, § 6 Essential
Essential difference, what, I.
476, § 5 Eternal verities, II. 208, § 14 Eternity, in our disputes and rea-
fonings about it, why we are apt to blunder, I. 390, § 15 Whence we get its idea, I. 176, 527
Evil, what, I. 245, § 42 Existence, an idea of sensation and
reflection, I. 108, §. 7 Our own existence we know in- tuitively, II. 188, 2 And cannot doubt of it, ibid. Of created things, knowable only by our senses, 11. 199, § 1 Past existence known only by memory, 11. 206, § 11 Expansion, boundless, I. 180, § 2. Should be applied to space in general, I. 161, § 27 Experience often helps us, where we think not that it does, 1. 123,8 Extasy, I. 213, § 1 Extension: we have no distinct ideas of very great, or very little extension, 1. 391, § 16 Of body, incomprehensible, I. 303, $23, &c. Denominations, from place and extension, are many of them relatives, I. 324, § 5 And body not the same thing,
Its definition insignificant, I. 154, 15
Of body and of space how dis- tinguished, I. 102, § 5: 1. 160, § 27
What, II. 240, $14
Not opposite to reason, II. 261, §24
As contra-distinguished to rea. son, what, II. 263, § z Cannot convince us of any thing contrary to our reason, II. 266, &c., 5, 6, 8 Matter of faith is only divine revelation, II. 269, § 9 Things above reason are only proper matters of faith, II. 268, 7: II. 269, § 9 Falsehood, what it is, II. 143, 9 Fancy, I. 132, § 8 Fantastical ideas, 1. 393, § 1 Fear, II. 218, 10 § Figure, I. 148-9, § 5, 6 Figurative speech, an abuse of lan. guage, II. 41, 34 Finite, and infinite, modes of quan- tity, I. 194, I
All positive ideas of quantity, finite, I. 199, § 8 Forms,substantial forms distinguish not species, I. 481, 10 Free, how far a man is so, I, 232,
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