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An essay concerning human understanding

  
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To The Right Honourable Lord Thomas,
  
Epistle to the Reader

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Introduction An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Book I Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate
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Book II Of Ideas
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Book III Of Words
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Book IV Of Knowledge and Probability
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Chapter I Of Knowledge in General
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Chapter II Of the Degrees of our Knowledge
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Chapter III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge
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Chapter IV Of the Reality of Knowledge
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Chapter V Of Truth in General
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Chapter VI Of Universal Propositions: their Truth and Certainty
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Chapter VII Of Maxims
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Chapter VIII Of Trifling Propositions
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Chapter IX Of our Threefold Knowledge of Existence
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Chapter X Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God
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Chapter XI Of our Knowledge of the Existence of Other Things
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Chapter XII Of the Improvement of our Knowledge
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Chapter XIII Some Further Considerations Concerning our Knowledge
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Chapter XIV Of Judgment
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Chapter XV Of Probability
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Chapter XVI Of the Degrees of Assent
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Chapter XVII Of Reason
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Chapter XVIII Of Faith and Reason, and their Distinct Provinces
  
1. Necessary to know their boundaries.
  
2. Faith and reason, what, as contradistinguished.
  
3. First, No new simple idea can be conveyed by traditional revelation.
  
4. Secondly, Traditional revelation may make us know propositions knowable also by reason, but not with the same certainty that reason doth.
  
5. Even original revelation cannot be admitted against the clear evidence of reason.
  
6. Traditional revelation much less.
  
7. Thirdly, Things above reason are, when revealed, the proper matter of faith.
  
8. Or not contrary to reason, if revealed, are matter of faith; and must carry it against probable conjectures of reason.
  
9. Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to.
  
10. In matters where reason can afford certain knowledge, that is to be hearkened to.
  
11. If the boundaries be not set between faith and reason, no enthusiasm or extravagancy in religion can be contradicted.
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Chapter XIX Of Enthusiasm
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Chapter XX Of Wrong Assent, or Error
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Chapter XXI Of the Division of the Sciences

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

In Four Books By

John Locke, Gent.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things.--Eccles. 11. 5. Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere.--Cicero, de Natur. Deor. l. i.
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Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan's Church, 1690
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