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An essay concerning human understanding
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To The Right Honourable Lord Thomas,
Epistle to the Reader
Introduction An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1.
Book I Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate
2.
Book II Of Ideas
1.
Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original
2.
Chapter II Of Simple Ideas
3.
Chapter III Of Simple Ideas of Sense
4.
Chapter IV Idea of Solidity
5.
Chapter V Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses
6.
Chapter VI Of Simple Ideas of Reflection
7.
Chapter VII Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection
8.
Chapter VIII Some further considerations concerning our Simple Ideas of Sensation
9.
Chapter IX Of Perception
10.
Chapter X Of Retention
11.
Chapter XI Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind
12.
Chapter XII Of Complex Ideas
13.
Chapter XIII Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:--and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of Space
14.
Chapter XIV Idea of Duration and its Simple Modes
15.
Chapter XV Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together
16.
Chapter XVI Idea of Number
17.
Chapter XVII Of Infinity
18.
Chapter XVIII Other Simple Modes
19.
Chapter XIX Of the Modes of Thinking
20.
Chapter XX Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain
21.
Chapter XXI Of Power
22.
Chapter XXII Of Mixed Modes
23.
Chapter XXIII Of our Complex Ideas of Substances
1. Ideas of particular substances, how made.
2. Our obscure idea of substance in general.
3. Of the sorts of substances.
4. No clear or distinct idea of substance in general.
5. As clear an idea of spiritual substance as of corporeal substance.
6. Our ideas of particular sorts of substances.
7. Their active and passive powers a great part of our complex ideas of substances.
8. And why.
9. Three sorts of ideas make our complex ones of corporeal substances.
10. Powers thus make a great part of our complex ideas of particular substances.
11. The now secondary qualities of bodies would disappear, if we could discover the primary ones of their minute parts.
12. Our faculties for discovery of the qualities and powers of substances suited to our state.
13. Conjecture about the corporeal organs of some spirits.
14. Our specific ideas of substances.
15. Our ideas of spiritual substances, as clear as of bodily substances.
16. No idea of abstract substance either in body or spirit.
17. Cohesion of solid parts and impulse, the primary ideas peculiar to body.
18. Thinking and motivity the primary ideas peculiar to spirit.
19. Spirits capable of motion.
20. Proof of this.
21. God immoveable, because infinite.
22. Our complex idea of an immaterial spirit and our complex idea of body compared.
23. Cohesion of solid parts in body as hard to be conceived as thinking in a soul.
24. Not explained by an ambient fluid.
25. We can as little understand how the parts cohere in extension, as how our spirits perceive or move.
26. The cause of coherence of atoms in extended substances incomprehensible.
27. The supposed pressure brought to explain cohesion is unintelligible.
28. Communication of motion by impulse, or by thought, equally unintelligible.
29. Summary.
30. Our idea of spirit and our idea of body compared.
31. The notion of spirit involves no more difficulty in it than that of body.
32. We know nothing of things beyond our simple ideas of them.
33. Our complex idea of God.
34. Our complex idea of God as infinite.
35. God in his own essence incognisable.
36. No ideas in our complex ideas of spirits, but those got from sensation or reflection.
37. Recapitulation.
24.
Chapter XXIV Of Collective Ideas of Substances
25.
Chapter XXV Of Relation
26.
Chapter XXVI Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations
27.
Chapter XXVII Of Identity and Diversity
28.
Chapter XXVIII Of Other Relations
29.
Chapter XXIX Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas
30.
Chapter XXX Of Real and Fantastical Ideas
31.
Chapter XXXI Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas
32.
Chapter XXXII Of True and False Ideas
33.
Chapter XXXIII Of the Association of Ideas
3.
Book III Of Words
4.
Book IV Of Knowledge and Probability
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