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Nothing; that nothing eannot produce
any thing, is demonstration, 450, s. 3.

Notions, 184, s. 2.

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,

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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.

Proofs, 375, s. 3.

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,

s. 11.

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.

Sagacity, 575, s. 3.

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.

Restraint, 154, s. 13.

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,

Sorrow, 148, s. 8.

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,

s. 16.

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,

s. 2.

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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