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INDEX.

ABBOT of St. Martin, page 378,
$ 26

Abstraction, 107, s 91

Puts a perfect distance betwixt
men and brutes, 108, s 10
What, 338, s 9
How, 111, s 1
Abstract ideas, why made, 315,
s 6, 7, 8

terms cannot be affirmed
one of another, 395, s 1
Accident, 221, s 2
Actions, the best evidence of men's
principles, 29, s 7

But two sorts of actions, 172,

s 4; 218, s 11
Unpleasant may be made plea-

sant, and how, 207, s 69
Cannot be the same in different

places, 253, s 2

Considered as modes, or as mo-

ral, 292, s 15
Adequate ideas, 306, s 1, 2
We have not of any species of
substances, 486, s 26
Affirmations are only inconcrete,
395, s 1.
Agreement and disagreement of
our ideas fourfold, 441, s 3-7
Algebra, 566, s 15
Alteration, 249, s 2
Analogy, useful in natural philo-
sophy, 580, s 12
Anger, 169, s 12, 14
Antipathy and sympathy, whence,
325, s 7
Arguments of four sorts:

This

1. Ad verecundiam, 598, s 19
2. Ad ignorantiam, 599, s 20
3. Ad hominem, ib. s 21
4. Ad judicium, ib. s 22.
alone right, ib. s 22
Arithmetic: the use of cyphers in
arithmetic, 481, s 19
Artificial things are most of them
collective ideas, 244, s 3

Why we are less liable to con-
fusion about artificial things,
than about natural, 387, s 40
Have distinct species, 388, s 41
Assent to maxims, 13, s 10

Upon hearing and understand-
ing the terms, 17, s 17, 18
Assent, a mark of self-evidence,
17, s 18

Not of innate, 18, s 18-20; 53,
s 19

Assent to probability, 572, s 3
Ought to be proportioned to the
proofs, 616, s1

Association of ideas, 323, s 1, &c.
This association how made, 324,
s 6

Ill effects of it, as to antipathies,

325, s 7, 8; 327, s 15
And this in sects of philosophy
and religion, 328, s 18
Its ill influence as to intellectual
habits, ib. s 17
Assurance, 577, s 6
Atheism in the world, 44, s 8
Atom, what, 254, s 3
Authority; relying on other's opi-
nions, one great cause of er-
ror, 626, s 17

B.

Beings, but two sorts, 543, s 9
The eternal being must be cogi-
tative, 544, s 10.
Belief, what, 572, s 3

To believe without reason, is
against our duty, 600, s 24
Best in our opinion, not a rule of
God's actions, 48, s 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,
62, s 8

Blood, how it appears in a micro-
scope, 229, s 11

Brutes have no universal ideas,
108, s 10, 11

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497, 8 13, 14
Clearness alone hinders confusion
of ideas, 105, s 3

Clear and obscure ideas, 296, s 2
Colours, modes of colours, 163, s 4
Comments upon law, why infinite,
401, s 9

Complex ideas how made, 106,
s 6; 111, s 1

In these the mind is more than
passive, 112, s 2

Ideas reducible to modes,, sub-

stances, and relations, ib. s 3
Comparing ideas, 106, s 4

Herein men excel brutes, ib. s 5
Compounding ideas, ib. s 6

In this is a great difference be-
tween men and brutes, 107, s7
Compulsion, 177, s 13
Confidence, 578, s 7
Confusion of ideas, wherein-it con-
sists, 297, s 5-7

Causes of confusion in ideas,
297-9, s 7-9; 300, s 12
Of ideas, grounded on a reference
to names, 299, 300, s 10-12
Its remedy, 300, s 12
Confused ideas, 296, s 4
Conscience is our own opinion of
our own actions, 29, s 8
Consciousness makes the same per-
son, 259, s 10; 263, s 16
Probably annexed to the same
individual, immaterial sub-
stance, 268, s 25

Necessary to thinking, 63, s 10,
11; 69, s 19
What, ib. s 19
Contemplation, 99, s 1
Creation, 249, s 2

Not to be denied, because we
cannot conceive the manner
how, 160, s 19

D.

Definition, why the genus is used
in definitions, 339, s 10

Defining of terms would cut off a

great part of disputes, 416, s 15
Demonstration, 449, s 3
Not so clear as intuitive know-
ledge, ib. s 4-6; 450, s 7

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Are most about the signification
of words, 428, s 7

Distance, 114, s 3

Distinct ideas, 296, s 4

Divisibility of matter incompre-
hensible, 239, s 31
Dreaming, 165, s 1

Seldom in some men, 66, s 14
Dreams for the most part irrational,
67, s 16

In dreams no ideas but of sen-

sation or reflection, ib. s 17
Duration, 126, s 1, 2

Whence we get the idea of dura-

Not from motion, 131, s 16
Its measure, ib. s 17, 18
Any regular periodical appear-
ance, 132, s 19, 20

None of its measures known to
be exact, 133, s 21

We only guess them equal by the
train of our ideas, ib. s 21
Minutes, days, years, &c. not
necessary to duration, 135,

s 23

Change of the measures of dura-
tion, change not the notion of
it, ib. s 23

The measures of duration, as the
revolutions of the sun, may be
applied to duration before the
sun existed, 135-7,s 24, 25, 28
Duration without beginning,
136, s 26

How we measure duration, ib.
s 27-9
Recapitulation, concerning our
ideas of duration, time, and
eternity, 138, s 31

Duration and expansion com-
pared, 139, s 1

They mutually embrace each
other, 146, s 12

Considered as a line, 145, s 11
Duration not conceivable by us
without succession, 146, s 12

E.

Education, partly the cause of
unreasonableness, 323, s 3

Effect, 249, s 1
Enthusiasm, 608

Described, 610, s 6, 7
Its rise, 609, s 5

Ground of persuasion must be
examined, and how, 611, s 10
Firmness of it, no sufficient
proof, 614, s 12, 13

Fails of the evidence it pretends
to, 612, s 11
Envy, 170, s 13, 14
Error, what, 616 s 1
Causes of error,
ib.

1. Want of proofs, 617, s 2
2. Want of skill to use them,

619, s 5

3. Want of will to use them,

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Supposition of unintelligible,
real essences of species, of no
use, 347, s 17

Real and nominal essences, in
simple ideas and modes always
the same, in substance always
different, 348, s 18
Essences, how ingenerable and
incorruptible, ib. s 19
Specific essences

of mixed
modes are of men's making,
and how, 357, s 3
Though arbitrary, yet not at
random, 359, s 7

Of mixed modes, why called
notions, 362, s 12
What, 366, s 2

Relate only to species, ib. s 4
Real essences, what, 368, s 6
We know them not, 370, s 9
Our specific essences of sub-
stances,nothing but collections
of sensible ideas, 375, s 21
Nominal are made by the mind,
377, s 26

But not altogether arbitrarily,
380, s 28

Nominal essences of substances,
how made, ib. s 28, 29

Are very various, 381, s 30;
382, s 31

Of species, are the abstract
ideas the names stand for,
372, s 12; 374, s 19

Are of man's making, 372, s 12
But founded in the agreement
of things, 373, s 13
Real essences determine not our
species, ib. 13
Everydistinct,abstract idea, with

a name, is a distinct essence
of a distinct species, ib. s 14
Real essences of substances, not
to be known, 513, s 12.
Essential, what, 366, s 2; 367,
$ 5

Nothing essential to indivi-
duals, 366, s 4

But to species, 368, s 6
Essential difference, what, 367,
$ 5

Eternal verities, 557, s 14
Eternity, in our disputes and rea-
sonings about it, why we are
apt to blunder, 301, s 15
Whence we get its idea, 136,

$ 27

Evil, what, 191, s 42

Existence, an idea of sensation
and reflection, 83, s 7

Our own existence we know in-
tuitively, 541, s 2

And cannot doubt of it, ib.
Of creatable things, knowable

only by our senses, 550, s 1
Past existence known only by

memory, 555, s 11
Expansion, boundless, 139, s 2
Should be applied to space in

general, 124, s 27

Experience often helps us, where
we think not that it does, 96,
s 8

Extasy, 166, s 1

Extension: we have no distinct
ideas of very great, or very
little, extension, 302, s 16
Of body, incomprehensible, 235,
s 23, &c.

Denominations, from place and
extension, are many of them
relatives, 251, s 5

And body not the same thing,
118, s 11

Its definition insignificant, 119,

s 15

Of body and of space how dis-
tinguished, 79, s 5; 124, s 27

F.

Faculties of the mind first exer-
cised, 109, s 14
Are but powers, 178, s 17
Operate not, 179, s 18, 20
Faith and opinion, as distin-
guished from knowledge,
what, 571, 572, s 2, 3
And knowledge, their dif-
ference, ib. 572, s 3
What, 582, s 14

Not opposite to reason, 600, s 24

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