An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

W. Tegg, 1849 - Knowledge, Theory of - 564 pages

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Index

Introduction	1

Note	4

Page	6

No innate Principles in the Mind	10

No innate practical Principles	23

Other Considerations concerning innate Principles both specula tive and practical	37

Note	40

BOOK II	52

Note	297

Of the Names of simple Ideas	306

Of the Names of mixed Modes and Relations	312

Of the names of Substances	320

37	337

51	343

VIII	344

Of abstract and concrete Terms	345

OF IDEAS CHAP I Of Ideas in general and their Original	53

Of Simple Ideas	63

Note	64

Of Ideas of one Sense	66

Of Solidity	68

Of simple Ideas of divers Senses VI Of simple Ideas of Reflection VII Of simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection	71

Some farther Considerations concerning our simple Ideas	74

Of Perception	82

Of Retention	86

Of Discerning and other Operations of the Mind	91

Of complex Ideas	96

Of simple Modes and First of the simple Modes of Space	98

Of Duration and its simple Modes	109

Of Duration and Expansion considered together	120

Note	123

Of Number	126

XVIIOf Infinity	130

Of other simple Modes	140

Of the Modes of Thinking	142

Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain	144

Of Power	147

Of mixed Modes	182

Of our complex Ideas of Substances	188

Notes	191

Of collective Ideas of Substances	209

Of Relation	210

Of Cause and Effect and other Relations	214

Of Identity and Diversity	217

Note	220

Page	233

Of other Relations	249

4	250

10	252

Of true and false Ideas 268	275

23	281

Of the Association of Ideas	283

BOOK III	288

Of the Signification of Words	290

Of general Terms	293

Of the Imperfection of Words	347

Of the Abuse of Words	357

Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses	371

BOOK IV	382

Of the Degrees of our Knowledge	390

Of the Extent of human Knowledge	396

Note	397

53	414

63	431

65	432

66	433

Of Truth in general	442

Of universal Propositions their Truth and Certainty	446

Of Maxims	455

Of trifling Propositions	468

Of our Knowledge of Existence	474

Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a	475

Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things	483

Of the Improvement of our Knowledge	489

Some farther Considerations concerning our Knowledge	497

Of Judgment	499

Of Probability	500

Of the Degrees of Assent	503

XVII	510

Of Faith and Reason and their distinct Provinces	525

Of Enthusiasm	531

Of wrong Assent or Error	538

Of the Division of the Sciences	547

INDEX 288	549

96	550

125	551

130	552

147	554

182	557

503	558

511	560

188	562

531	563

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Title	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author	John Locke
Edition	30
Publisher	W. Tegg, 1849
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	16 Jan 2007
Length	564 pages

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