10. Why the genus is ordina- rily made use of in defini- 12. Abstract ideas are the es- 1. They stand for abstract ideas 2. First, The ideas they stand 3. Secondly, made arbitrarily, 5. Evidently arbitrary, in that 6. Instances, murther, incest, 7. But still subservient to the 8. Whereof the intranslatable 9. This shows species to be 12. For the originals of mixed terns, shows the reason why essences. 15. Why their names are usu- ally got before their ideas. CHAP. VI. Of the names of substances. 1. The common names of sub- stances stand for sorts. 2. The essence of each sort is the abstract idea. 3. The nominal and real es- 7-8. The nominal essence bounds 9. Not the real essence, which we know not. 10. Not substantial forms, that whereby we distinguish numberless species. 13. The nominal essence that of substances, not perfect col- 21. But such a collection as our name stands for. 22. Our abstract ideas are to.us STANDING. sidered with regard to their Qualities. em. b. 2. c. 29. §§ 2. 4. See also the preface. I. Dull organs. § 2. { 2. Slight impressions. ibid. 3. Weak memory. ibid. their names. § 10. and b. 3. c. 2. reason. b. 2. c. 29. §§ 14, 15. to imagination. ibid. em. b. 2. C. 20. Ô 4. s. $2. $3. ith. 24. 1 from it. c. 18. § 2. § 4. ay be objects of faith. ibid. §§ 7, 8. o it cannot. § 10. every thing. c. 19. § 14 Ige whether a revelation be divine. ibid. the best way. c. 17. § 4. Verecundiam. Ignorantiam. Hominem. Judicium. 17. § 19. Reason. c. 18. § 2. Knowledge. c. 15. §.3. Enthusiasm. c. 19. vid. association, under retention II. 2 Persuasion. c. 19. § 12. of knowledge. c. 14. § 3. matters of s probabilities. § 4. and c. 15. {Concerning facts. c.7 Proper measures or rules of probability. § 7. he OF Human Understanding. §. 1. SINCE BOOK I. CHAP. I. Introduction. An enquiry into the un derstanding, pleasant and useful. INCE it is the understanding, that sets man above the rest of sensible, beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own object. But, whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this enquiry; whatever it be, that keeps us so much in the dark to ourselves; sure I am, that all the light we can let in upon our own minds, all the acquaintance we can make with our own understandings, will not only be very pleasant, but bring us great advantage, in directing our thoughts in the search of other things. Design. $. 2. This, therefore, being my purpose, to enquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together with the grounds, and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent; I shall not at present meddle, with the physical consideration of the mind; or trouble myself to examine, wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, VOL. I. B or |