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CHAP. XXXI.

Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.

1. Adequate Ideas are fuch as perfectly reprefent. their Archetypes.

2. Simple Ideas all adequate.

3. Modes are all adequate.

4, 5. Modes in reference to fettled Names, may be inadequate..

6, 7. Ideas of Subftances, as referred to real Effences, not adequate.

8-11. Ideas of Substances, as Collections of their Qualities, are all inadequate.

12. Simple Ideas luxa, and adequate.

13. Ideas of Subftances are xlva, inadequate.

14. Ideas of Modes and Relations are Archetypes, and cannot but be adequate.

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CHA P. XXXII.

Oftrue and falfe Ideas.

1. Truth and Falfehood properly belong to Propofitions. 2. Metaphyfical Truth contains a tacit Propofition. 3. No Idea as an Appearance in the Mind true or falfe. 4. Ideas referred to any thing, may be true or falfe. 5- Other Mens Ideas, real Exiftence,, and supposed real Effences, are what men usually refer their Ideas to. 6-8. The Cause of fuch References.

9. Simple Ideas may be falfe in reference to others of the fame Name, but are least liable to be so.

10. Ideas of mixed Modes most liable to be falfe in this Senfe.

11. Or at least to be thought falfe..

12. And why.

13. As referred to real Exiftences, none of our Ideas can be falfe, but those of Substances.

14-16. First, Simple Ideas in this Senfe not falfe, and why.. 15. Though one Man's Idea of Blue fhould be different from another's.

17. Secondly, Modes not falfe.

18. Thirdly, Ideas of Subflances, when false.

19. Truth or Falsehood always fuppofes Affirmation or

Negation.

20. Ideas in themfelves never true nor falfe.

21. But are false, First, When judged agreeable to ano-

ther Man's Idea, without being fo.

22. Secondly, When judged to agree to real Existence,

when they do not.

23. Thirdly, When judged adequate, without being fo.

24. Fourthly, When judged to represent the real Effence.

25. Ideas when falfe.

26. More properly to be called right or wrong.

27. Conclufion.

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CHAP. XXXIII.

Of the Affociation of Ideas.

1. Something unreasonable in moft Men.

2. Not wholly from Self-love.

3. Nor from Education.

4. A Degree of Madness.

5. From a wrong connection of Ideas.

6. This connection how made.

7, 8. Some Antipathies an Effect of it.

great

9. A Caufe of Errors.

10-12. Inftances.

13. Why Time cures fome Disorders in the Mind, which

Reason cannot.

14-16. Farther Inftances of the Effects of the Affociation

of Ideas.

17. Its Influence on intellectual Habits.

18. Obfervable in different Sects.

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BOOK III.-C H A P. I.

OF WORDS.

Of Words, or Language in general.

1. Man fitted to form articulate Sounds.

2. To make them Signs of Ideas.

3, 4. To make general Signs.

5. Words ultimately derived from such as fignify fenfible

Ideas.

6. Diftribution.

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CHA P. II.

Of the Signification of Words.

1. Words are fenfible Signs neceffary for communication.

2, 3. Words are the fenfible Signs of his Ideas who uses

them.

4. Words often fecretly referred, Firft, to the Ideas in

other Mens Minds..

5. Secondly, To the Reality of things.

6. Words by use readily excite Ideas.

7. Words often used without Signification.

8. Their Signification perfectly arbitrary.

1. The greatest part of Words general.

2. For every particular thing to have a Name, is im-

poffible.

3, 4. And useless.

5. What things have proper Names.

6-8. How general Words are made.

9. General Natures are nothing but abstract Ideas.

10. Why the Genus is ordinarily made ufe of in Defini-

tions.

11. General and Univerfal are Creatures of the Under-

ftanding.

12. Abstract Ideas are the Effences of the Genera and

Species.

13. They are the Workmanship of the Understanding,

but have their foundation in the Similitude of

things.

14. Each distinct abstract Idea, is a distinct Effence.

15. Real and nominal Effence.

16. Conftant Connection between the Name and nominal

Fffence.

17. Suppofition, that Species are diftinguifhed by their

real Effences, ufelefs.

18. Real and nominal Effence, the fame in fimple Ideas

and Modes, different in Substances.

19. Effences ingenerable and incorruptible.

20. Recapitulation.

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CHA P. IV.

Of the Names of Simple Ideas.

1. Names of fimple Ideas, Modes, and Subftances, have

each fomething peculiar,

2. Firft, Names of fimple Ideas and Subftances, intimate

real Exiftence.

3. Secondly, Names of fimple Ideas and Modes, fignify

always both real and nominal Effence.

4. Thirdly, Names of fimple Ideas undefinable.

5. If all definable, it would be a process in infinitum.

6. What a definition is.

7. Simple Ideas, why undefinable.

8, 9. Inftances.

10. Light.

Motion.

11. Simple Ideas why undefinable, farther explained.

12, 13. The contrary showed in complex Ideas, by in-

ftances of a Statue and Rainbow.

14. The Names of complex Ideas, when to be made in-

telligible by Words.

15. Fourthly, Names of fimple Ideas leaft doubtful.

16. Fifthly, Simple Ideas have few Afcents in linea præ-

dicamentali.

17. Sixthly, Names of fimple Ideas ftand for Ideas not at

all arbitrary.

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CHAP. V.

Of the Names of mixed Modes and Relations.

1. They ftand for abftract Ideas, as other general Names.

2. First, The Ideas they ftand for, are made by the un-

3. Secondly, Made arbitrarily, and without Patterns. 4. How this is done.

5. Evidently arbitrary, in that the Idea is often before the Existence.

6. Inftances-Murder, Inceft, Stabbing.

7. But still fubfervient to the End of Language.

8. Whereof the intranflatable Words of divers Languages are a Proof.

9. This fhows Species to be made for communication. 10, 11. In mixed Modes, it is the Name that ties the combination together, and makes it a Species. 12. For the originals of mixed Modes, we look no farther than the Mind, which alfo fhows them to be the Workmanship of the Underftanding.

13. Their being made by the Understanding without Patterns, fhows the reafon why they are fo compounded.

14. Names of mixed Modes ftand always for their real Effences.

15. Why their Names are ufually got before their Ideas. 16. Reason of my being fo large on this Subject.

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CHAP. VI.

Of the Names of Substances.

1. The common Names of Subftances stand for forts.
2. The Effence of each fort, is the abftra& Idea.
3. The nominal real Effence different.

4-6. Nothing effential to Individuals.

7, 8. The nominal Effence bounds the Species. 9. Not the real Effence, which we know not. 10. Not fubftantial Forms, which we know lefs. 11. That the nominal Effence is that whereby we distinguish Species, farther evident from Spirits. 12. Whereof there are probably numberless Species. 13. The nominal Effence that of the Species, proved from Water and Ice.

14-18. Difficulties against a certain Number of real Ef fences.

19. Our nominal Effences of Substances, not perfect Collections of Properties.

21. But such a Collection as our Name stands for.