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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
3.
Book III Of Words
1.
Chapter I Of Words or Language in General
2.
Chapter II Of the Signification of Words
1. Words are sensible signs, necessary for communication of ideas.
2. Words, in their immediate signification, are the sensible signs of his ideas who uses them.
3. Examples of this.
4. Words are often secretly referred first to the ideas supposed to be in other men's minds.
5. To the reality of things.
6. Words by use readily excite ideas of their objects.
7. Words are often used without signification, and why.
8. Their signification perfectly arbitrary, not the consequence of a natural connexion.
3.
Chapter III Of General Terms
4.
Chapter IV Of the Names of Simple Ideas
5.
Chapter V Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations
6.
Chapter VI Of the Names of Substances
7.
Chapter VII Of Particles
8.
Chapter VIII Of Abstract and Concrete Terms
9.
Chapter IX Of the Imperfection of Words
10.
Chapter X Of the Abuse of Words
11.
Chapter XI Of the Remedies of the Foregoing Imperfections and Abuses of Words
4.
Book IV Of Knowledge and Probability
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