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AN
ESSAY
CONCERNING
HUMAN UNDERSTANDING,
WRITTEN
BY JOHN LOCKE, GENT.
TO WHICH ARE NOW FIRST ADDED,
I. AN ANALYSIS OF MR. LOCKE'S DOCTRINE OF IDEAS, ON A LARGE SHEET.
II. A DEFENCE OF MR. LOCKE'S OPINION CONCERNING PERSONAL IDENTITY,
WITH AN APPENDIX.
III. A TREATISE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING.
IV. SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING READING AND STUDY FOR A GENTLEMAN.
V. ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
VI. A NEW METHOD OF A COMMON-PLACE-BOOK.
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE: R. GRIFFIN AND CO.
GLASGOW; AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME III.
Personal Identity
Some thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman 291
Elements of Natural Philosophy
Essay on Human Understanding, book iv. ch. 5, &c.
Page
A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Personal Identity 177
Appendix to the Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning
Of the Conduct of the Understanding -
199
203
- 301
A New Method of a Common-Place-Book
- 331
Index to the Essay concerning Human Understanding
Index to the Additional Pieces in this Volume
2. A right joining or separating of signs; i. e. ideas or words.
3. Which make mental or verbal propositions.
4. Mental propositions are very hard to be treated of.
5. Being nothing but joining or separating ideas, without
words.
6. When mental propositions contain real truth, and when
verbal.
7. Objection against verbal truth, that thus it may be all
chimerical.
8. Answered, real truth is about ideas agreeing to things.
9. Falsehood is the joining of names, otherwise than their
ideas agree.
10. General propositions to be treated of more at large.
11. Moral and metaphysical truth.
CHAPTER VI.
OF UNIVERSAL PROPOSITIONS, THEIR TRUTH AND CERTAINTY.
SECT.
1. Treating of words, necessary to knowledge.
2. General truths hardly to be understood, but in verbal pro-
positions.
3. Certainty two-fold, of truth, and of knowledge.
4. No proposition can be known to be true, where the essence of each species mentioned is not known.
5. This more particularly concerns substances.
6. The truth of few universal propositions concerning sub-
stances is to be known.