Nothing; that nothing eannot produce any thing, is demonstration, 450, s. 3.
Number, 130, modes of, the most distinct ideas, 185, s. 3. demonstrations in numbers, the most determinate, 185, s. 4. the general measure, 133, s. 8. affords the clearest idea of infinity, 137, s. 9. numeration, what, 131, s. 5. names necessary to it, ib. s. 5, 6. and order, 132, s. 7. why not early in children, and in some never, ib.
Obscurity, unavoidable in ancient authors, 337, s. 10. the cause of it in our ideas, 252, s. 3.
Obstinate, they are most, who have least, examined, 477, s. 3.
Opinion, what, 475, s. 3. how opinions grow up to principles, 44, &c. s. 22-26. of others, a wrong ground of assent, 476, s. 6; 518, s. 17.
Organs; our organs suited to our state, 516, &c. s. 12, 13.
Pain, present, works presently, 176, s. 64. its use, 79, s. 4.
Parrot, mentioned by Sir W. T. 219, s. 8. holds a rational discourse, 220.
Particles join parts, or whole sentences, together, 330, s. 1. in them lies the beauty of well speaking, 331, s. 2. how their use is to be known, ib. s. 3. they express some action or posture of the mind, ib. s. 4.
Pascal, his great memory, 95, s. 9. Passion, 188, s. 11.
Passions, how they lead us into error, 481. s. 11. turn on pleasure and pain, 147, s. 3. are seldom single, 164, s. 39.
Perception, threefold, 152, s. 5. in percep- tion, the mind for the most part passive, 88, s. 1. is an impression made on the mind, ib. s. 3, 4. in the womb, 89, s. 5. difference be- tween it, and innate ideas, ib. s. 6. puts the difference between the animal and vegetable kingdom, 91, s. 11. the several degrees of it, shew the wisdom and goodness of the Maker, ib. s. 12. belongs to all animals, 91, s. 12— 14. the first inlet of knowledge, 92. s. 15.
Person, what, 220, s. 9. a forensic term, 228, s. 26. the same consciousness alone makes the same person, 222, s. 13; 227, s. 23. the same soul, without the same consci- ousness, makes not the same person, 223, s. 14. &c. reward and punishment follow per- sonal identity, 225, s. 18.
Phantastical ideas, 258, s. 1.
Place, 105, s. 7, 8. use of place, 106, s. 9. nothing but relative position, 107, s. 10. sometimes taken for the space body fills, ib. twofold, 126, s. 6; ib. s. 6, 7.
Pleasure and pain, 147, s. 1; 149, s. 15, 16. join themselves to most of our ideas, 78,
in God, no active in matter; both active and passive in spirits, ib. s. 2. our idea of active power clearest from reflection, 151, s. 4. powers operate not on powers, 156, s. 18. make a great part of the ideas of substances, 195, s. 7. why, 196, s. 8. an idea of sensa- tion and reflection, 80, s. 8.
Practical principles not innate, 32, s. 1. not universally assented to, 33, s. 2. are for operation, ib. 3. not agreed, 40, s. 14. diffe- rent, 43, s. 21.
Principles, not to be received without strict examination, 465, s. 4; 514, s. 8. the ill consequences of wrong principles, 514, &c. s. 9, 10. none innate, 20, s. 1. none uni- versally assented to, 21, s. 2-4. how ordina- rily got, 44, s. 22, &c. are to be examined, 45, s. 26, 27. not innate, if the ideas they are made up of, are not innate, 46, s. 1.
Private terms, 279, s. 4.
Probability, what, 474, &c. s. 1, 3. the grounds of probability, 475, s. 4. in matter of fact, 479, s. 6. how we are to judge in pro- babilities, 475, s. 5. difficulties in probabi- lities, 480, s. 9., grounds of probability in speculation, 482, s. 12. wrong measures of probability, 513, s. 7. how evaded by pre- judiced minds, 516, s. 13, 14.
Properties of specific essences, not known, 315, s. 19. of things very numerous, 265, s. 10; 273, s. 24.
Propositions, identical, teach nothing, 458, s. 2. generical, teach nothing, 445, s. 4; 448, s. 13. wherein a part of the definition is pre- dicated of the subject, teach nothing, 445, 446, s. 5, 6. but the signification of the word, 446, s. 7. concerning substances, generally either trifling or uncertain, 447, s. 9. merely verbal, how to be known, 448, s. 12. abstract terms, predicated one of another, produce merely verbal propositions, ib. or part of a complex idea, predicated of the whole, 445, s. 4; 448, s. 13. more propositions, merely verbal, than is suspected, 448, s. 13. uni- versal propositions concern not existence, 449, s. 1. what propositions concern existence, ib. certain propositions, concerning existence, are particular; concerning abstract ideas, may be general, 454, s. 13. mental, 418, s. 3; 419, s. 5. verbal, 418, s. 3; 419, s. 5. mental, hard to be treated, 418, s. 3, 4.
Punishment, what, 243, s. 5. and reward, follow consciousness, 225, s. 18; 228, s. 26. an unconscious drunkard, why punished, 226, s. 22.
Qualities secondary qualities, their con- nexion, or inconsistence, unknown, 398, s. 11. of substances, scarce knowable, but by experience, 399, &c. s. 14, 16. of spiritual substances less than of corporeal, 401, s. 17. secondary, have no conceivable connexion with the primary, that produce them, 398, &c. s. 12, 13; 407, s. 28. of substances, de- pend on remote causes, 414, s. 11. not to be known by descriptions, 364, s. 21. secondary,
how far capable of demonstration, 377, 378, s. 11-13. what, 82, s. 19; 14, s. 16. how said to be in things, 258, s. 2. secondary, would be other, if we could discover the minute parts of bodies, 197, s. 11. primary, 82, s. 9. how they produce ideas in us, 83, s. 11, 12. secondary qualities, 83, 84, s. 13–15. pri- mary qualities resemble our ideas, secondary not, 84, &c. s. 15, 16. &c. three sorts of qua- lities in bodies, 86, s. 23. i. e. primary, se- condary, immediately perceivable; and se- condary, mediately perceivable, 87, s. 26. secondary are bare powers, 86, 87, &c. s. 23 --25. secondary have no discernible con- nexion with the first, 87, s. 25.
Quotations, how little to be relied on, 481,
Real ideas, 266, s. 1, 2.
Reason, its various significations, 484, s. 1. what, ib. s. 2. reason is natural revelation, 505, s. 4. it must judge of revelation, 516, s. 14, 15. it must be our last guide in every thing, ib. four parts of reason, 485. s. 3. where reason fails us, 493, s. 9. necessary in all but intuition, 493, s. 15. as contra-dis- tinguished to faith, what, 498, s. 2. helps us not to the knowledge of innate truths, 21, 22, s. 5-8. general ideas, general terms, and rea- son, usually grow together, 25, s. 15, Recollection, 145, s. 1. Reflection, 61, s. 4. Related, 209, s. 1.
Relation, ib. proportional, 242, s. 1. na- tural, ib. s. 2. instituted, 243, s. 3. moral, ib. s. 4. numerous, 249, s. 17. terminate in sim- ple ideas, 250, s. 18. our clear ideas of rela- tion, ib. s. 19. names of relations doubtful, ib. s. 19. without correlative terms, not so commonly observed, 210, s. 2. different from the things related, ib. s. 4. changes without any change in the subject, ib. s. 5. always be- tween two, 211, s. 6. all things capable of re- lation, ib. s. 7. the idea of the relation, often clearer than of the things related, ib. s. 8. all terminate in simple ideas of sensation and re- flection, 212, s. 9.
Relative, 209, s. 1. same relative terms taken for external denominations, 210, s. 2. some for absolute, ib. s. 3. how to be known, 212, s. 10. many words, though seeming ab- solute, are relatives, 210, s. 3-5.
assent, 483, s. 14. belief, no proof of it, 509, s. 15. traditional revelation cannot convey any new simple ideas, 198, s. 3. not so sure as our reason or senses, 499, s. 4. in things of reason no need of revelation, 500, s. 5. can- not overrule our clear knowledge, ib. s. 5.; 503, s. 10. must overrule probabilities of rea- son, 502, s. 8, 9.
Reward, what, 243, s. 5.
Rhetoric, an art of deceiving, 356, s. 34.
Same, whether substance, mode, or con- crete, 229, s. 28.
Sand, white to the eye, pellucid, in a mi- croscope, 197, s. 11.
Sceptical, no one so sceptical as to doubt his own existence, 450, s. 2.
Schools wherein faulty, 346, s. 6, &c. Science, divided into a consideration of nature, of operation, and of signs, 519. no science of natural bodies, 406, s. 26.
Scripture; interpretations of scripture not to be imposed, 343, s. 23.
Self, what makes it, 225, s. 20; 227,228, s. 23-25.
Self-love, 274, s. 2. partly cause of unrea- sonableness in us, ib.
Self-evident propositions, where to be had, 430, &c. neither needed nor admitted proof, 442, s. 19.
Sensation, 61, s. 3. distinguishable from other perceptions, 378, s. 14. explained, 85, s. 21, what, 145, s. 1.
Senses: why we cannot conceive other qualities, than the objects of our senses, 73, s. 3. learn to discern by exercise, 364, s. 21. much quicker would not be useful to us, 516, s. 12. our organs of sense suited to our state, ib. &c. s. 12, 13.
Sensible knowledge is as certain as we need, 460, s. 8. sensible knowledge goes not beyond the present act, 461, s. 9. Shame, 149, s. 17.
Simple ideas, 70, s. 1. not made by the mind, 71, s. 2. power of the mind over them, 104, s. 1. the materials of all our knowledge, 80, s. 10. all positive, ib. very different from their causes, 81, s. 2, 3.
Sin, with different men, stands for different actions, 42, s. 19.
Solidity, 74, s. 1. inseparable from body, ib. by it body fills space, 75, s. 2. this idea got by touch, 74, s. 1. how distinguished from space, 75, s. 3. how from hardness, 76, s. 4.
Religion, all men have time to inquire into, 511, s.3. butin many places are hindered from inquiring, 512, s. 4. remembrance, of great moment in common life, 95, s. 8. what, 56, s. 20; 94, s. 7. Reputation, of great force in cominon life, 452, s. 8. 247, s. 12.
Resurrection, the author's notion of it, 232, &c. not necessarily understood of the same body, ib. &c. the meaning of his body, 2 Cor. v. 10,231. the same body of Christ arose, and why, 233, 234. how the scripture speaks about it, 241.
Something from eternity, demonstrated,
Soul thinks not always, 63, s. 9, &c. not in sound sleep, 64, s. 11, &c. its immateria- lity, we know not, 380, &c. s. 6; 381, &c. religion, not concerned in the soul's immate- riality, 395. our ignorance about it, 229, s. 27. the immortality of it, not proved by rea- son, 392, &c. it is brought to light by reve-
Revelation, an unquestionable ground of lation, ib.
Sound, its modes, 143, s. 3.
Space, its idea got by sight and touch, 104, s.2. its modification, 104, 105, s. 4. not body, 107, s. 11, 12. its parts inseparable, 108, s. 13. immoveable, ib. s. 14. whether body, or spirit, ib. s. 16. whether substance, or acci- dent, 109, s. 17. infinite, 110, s. 21; 134, s. 4. ideas of space and body distinct, 112, s. 24, 25. considered as a solid, 129, s. 11. hard to conceive any real being, void of space, ib.
Species; why changing one simple idea of the complex one, is thought to change the species in modes but not in substances, 351, s. 19. of animals and vegetables, distinguish ed by figure, 320, s. 29. of other things, by colour, ib. made by the understanding, for communication, 304, s. 9. no species of mixed modes without a name, 305, s. 11. of sub- stances, are determined by the nominal es- sence, 310-314, &c. s. 7, 8, 11, 13. not by substantial forms, 312, s. 10. nor by the real essence, 315, s. 18; 317, s. 25. of spirits, how distinguished, 312, s. 11. more species of creatures above than below us, 313, s. 12. of creatures very gradual, ib. what is neces- sary to the making of species, by real es- sences, 314, s. 14, &c. of animals and plants, not distinguished by propagation, 316, s. 23. of animals and vegetables, distinguished prin- cipally by the shape and figure; of other things, by the colour, 320, s. 29. of man, like- wise in part, 318, s. 26. instance, Abbot of St. Martin, 318, s. 26. is but a partial con- ception of what is in the individuals, 322, s. 32. it is the complex idea which the name stands for, that makes the species, 323, s. 35. man makes the species, or sorts, 324, s. 36, 37. the foundation of it is in the similitude found in things, ib. every distinct, abstract idea, a different species, 324, s. 38.
Speech, its end, 279, s. 1, 2. proper speech, 283, s. 8. intelligible, ib.
Spirits, the existence of, not knowable, 462, s. 12. how it is proved, ib. operation of spirits on bodies, not conceivable, 407, s. 28. what knowledge they have of bodies, 364, s. 23. separate, how their knowledge may exceed ours, 95, s. 9. we have as clear a no- tion of the substance of spirit, as of body, 194, s. 5. a conjecture concerning one way of knowledge wherein spirits excel us, 198, s. 13. our ideas of spirit, 199, s. 14. as clear as that of body, ib. 201, s. 22. primary ideas belonging to spirits, 200, s. 18. move, 200, s. 19. ideas of spirit and body, compared, 201, s. 22; 205, s. 30. existence of, as easy to be admitted as that of bodies, 204, s. 28. we have no idea how spirits communicate their thoughts, 207, s. 36. how far we are ignorant of the being, species, and properties of spirits, 407, s. 27. the word spirit, does not necessarily denote immateriality, 381, &c. the scripture speaks of material spirits, ib. Stupidity, 95, s. 8.
Substance, 189, s. 1. no idea of it, 55, s. 18. not very knowable, ib. our certainty,
concerning substances, reaches but a little way, 414, s. 11,12; 416, s. 15. the confused idea of substance in general, makes always a part of the essence of the species of sub- stances, 315, s. 21. in substances, we must rectify the signification of their names, by the things, more than by definitions, 365, s. 24. their ideas single, or collective, 103, s. 6. we have no distinct idea of substance, 109, s. 18, 19. we have no idea of pure substance, 190, s. 2. our ideas of the sorts of substances, 192 -194, &c. s. 3,4; 195, s. 6. observable, in our ideas of substances, 207, s. 37. collective ideas of substances, 208, &c. they are single ideas, ib. s. 2. three sorts of substances, 216, s. 2. the ideas of substances, have a double reference, 262, s. 6. the properties of sub- stances, numerous, and not all to be known, 264, s. 9, 10. the perfectest ideas of sub- stances, 195, s. 7. three sorts of ideas make cur complex one of substances, 196, s. 9. sub- stance, not discarded by the essay, 191, &c. the author's account of it clear as that of noted logicians, 191, &c. we talk like children about it, 190, s. 2; 193. the author makes not the being of it depend on the fancies of men, 189, &c. idea of it obscure, 380, &c. the author's principles consist with the cer- tainty of its existence, 189, &c.
Subtility, what, 346, s. 8.
Succession, an idea got chiefly from the train of our ideas, 80, s. 9; 115, s. 6. which train is the measure of it, 117, s. 12. Summon bonum, wherein it consists, 172, s. 55.
Sun, the name of a species, though but one, 308, s. 1.
Syllogism, no help to reasoning, 485, s. 4. the use of syllogism, ib. inconveniences of syllogism, ib. of no use in probabilities, 491, s. 5. helps not to new discoveries, ib. s. 6. or the improvement of our knowledge, 492, s. 7. whether, in syllogism, the middle terms may not be better placed, 493, s. 8. may be about particulars, ib.
Taste and smells, their modes, 144, s. 5. Testimony, how it lessens its force, 481, s. 10.
Thinking, 145. modes of thinking, ib. s. 1; 146, s. 2. men's ordinary way of thinking, 475, s. 4. an operation of the soul, 63, s. 10. without memory useless, 66, s. 15.
Time, what, 118, s. 17, 18. not the mea- sure of motion, 120, s. 22. and place, distin- guishable portions of infinite duration and ex- pansion, 126, s. 5, 6. two-fold, ib. s. 6, 7. denominations from time are relatives, 214, s. 3.
Toleration, necessary in our state of know- ledge, 478, s. 4.
Tradition, the older the less credible, 481, s. 10.
Trifling propositions, 443. discourses, 447, s. 9, 10, 11.
Truth, what, 418, s. 2; 420, s. 6. of thought, 418, s. 3; 421, s. 9. of words, 418, s. 3.
verbal and real, 421, s. 8, 9. moral, 421, s. 11. metaphysical, 267, s. 2. general, sel- dom apprehended, but in words, 422, s. 2. in what it consists, 423, s. 5. love of it neces- sary, 504, s. 1. how we may know we love it, ib. s. 1.
Vacuum possible, 110, s. 22. motion proves a vacuum, 111, s. 25. we have an idea of it, 75, s. 3; 76, s. 5.
Variety in men's pursuits, accounted for, 171, s. 54, &c.
Virtue, what, in reality, 41, s. 18. what in its common application, 37, s. 10, 11. is pre- ferable, under a bare possibility of a future state, 180. how taken, 41, s. 17, 18.
Vice lies in wrong measures of good, 517,
Understanding, what, 152, s. 5, 6. like a dark room, 101, s. 17. when rightly used, 14, s. 5. three sorts of perception in, 152, s. 5. wholly passive in the reception of simple ideas, 70, s. 25.
Uneasiness alone determines the will to a new action, 160, &c. s. 29, 31, 33, &c. why it determines the will, 163, s. 36, 37. causes of it, 173, s. 57, &c.
Unity, an idea, both of sensation and re- flection, 80, s. 7. suggested by every thing, 130, s. 1.
Universality, is only in signs, 287, s. 11. Universals, how made, 99, s. 9. Volition, what, 152, s. 5; 155, s. 15; 159, s. 28. better known by reflection, than words, 160, s. 30.
Voluntary, what, 152, s. 5; 153, s. 11; 159, s. 27.
without signification, 344, s. 3. and why, 345, s. 5. inconstancy in their use, an abuse of words, 345, s. 5, obscurity, an abuse of words, 346, s. 6. taking them for things, an abuse of words, 348, 349, s. 14, 15. who most liable to this abuse of words, ib. this abuse of words is a cause of obstinacy in error, 350, s. 16. making them stand for real es- sences we know not, is an abuse of words, 350, 351, s. 17, 18. the supposition of their certain evident signification, an abuse of words, 352, s. 22. use of words is, 1. To com- municate ideas; 2. With quickness; 3. To convey knowledge, 354, s. 23, 24. how they fail in all these, 354, s. 26, &c. how in sub- stances, 355, s. 32. how in modes and rela- tions, ib. s. 33. misuse of words, a great cause of error, 357, s. 4. of obstinacy, ib. s. 5. and of wrangling, 358, s. 6. signify one thing in inquiries; and another in disputes, ib. s. 7. the meaning of words is made known, in simple ideas, by shewing, 361, s. 14. in mixed modes, by defining, ib. s. 15. in substances, by shew- ing and defining too, 363, s. 19; 364, s. 21, 22. the ill consequence of learning words first, and their meaning afterward, 365, s. 24. no shame to ask men the meaning of their words, where they are doubtful, 365, s. 25. are to be used constantly in the same sense, S67, s. 26. or else to be explained, where the con- text determines it not, ib. s. 27. how made general, 279, s. 3. signifying insensible things, derived from names of sensible ideas, 280, s. 5. have no natural signification, 281, s. 1. but by imposition, 283, s. 8. stand imme- diately for the ideas of the speaker, 281, 282, s. 1-3. yet with a double reference :--1. To the ideas in the hearer's mind, 282, s. 4.
What is, is, is not universally assented to, 2. To the reality of things, ib. s. 5. apt, by 21, s. 4.
Where and when, 127, s. 8. Whole, bigger than its parts, its use, 435, s. 11. and part not innate ideas, 47, s. 6.
Will, what, 152, s. 5, 6; 155, s. 16; 159, s. 28. what determines the will, ib. s. 29. often confounded with desire, 160, s. 30. is conversant only about our own actions, ib. s. 30. terminates in them, 165, s. 40. is de- termined by the greatest, present, removable uneasiness, ib.
Wit and judgment, wherein different, 97,
Words, an ill use of, one great hinderance of knowledge, 409, s. 30. abuse of words, 344, sects introduce words without significa- tion, ib. s. 2. the schools have coined multi- tudes of insignificant words, ib. s. 2. and rendered others obscure,34 6, s. 6. often used
custom, to excite ideas, 283. s. 6. often used without signification, ib. s. 7. most general, 284, s. 1. why some words of one language cannot be translated into those of another, 303, s. 8. why I have been so large on words, 307, s. 16. new words, or in new significa- tions, are cautiously to be used, 530, s. 51. civil use of words, 334, s. 3. philosophical use of words, ib. these very different, 339, s. 15. miss their end when they excite not, in the hearer, the same idea as in the mind of the speaker, 334, s. 4. what words most doubt- ful, and why, ib. s. 5. what unintelligible, ib. fitted to the use of common life, 334, s. 2. not translatable, 303, s. 8.
Worship not an innate idea, 48, s. 7. Wrangle, about words, 448, s. 13. Writings, ancient, why hardly to be pre- cisely understood, 345, s. 22.
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