McClintock's Essay

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John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding .

To the Right Honourable Lord Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Barron Herbert of Cardiff, Lord Ross, of Kendal, Par, Fitzhugh, Marmion, St. Quintin, and Shurland;
Lord President of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
And Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts, and of South Wales.

Markup copyright © 1995 ILT Digital Classics.


Table of Contents

Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Thomas, et al.
Epistle to the Reader 6th Edition
Introduction

Book I - Neither Principle nor Ideas are Inate

Chapter 01 No Innate Speculative Principles
Chapter 02 No Innate Practical Principles
Chapter 03 Other considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical

Book II - Of Ideas

Chapter 01 Of Ideas in general, and their Original
Chapter 02 Of Simple Ideas
Chapter 03 Of Simple Ideas of Sense
Chapter 04 Ideas of Solidity
Chapter 05 Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses
Chapter 06 Of Simple Ideas of Reflection
Chapter 07 Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection
Chapter 08 Some further considerations concerning our Simple Ideas of Sensation
Chapter 09 Of Perception
Chapter 10 Of Retention
Chapter 11 Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind
Chapter 12 Of Complex Ideas
Chapter 13 Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:- and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of Space
Chapter 14 Idea of Duration and its Simple Mode
Chapter 15 Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together
Chapter 16 Idea of Number
Chapter 17 Of Infinity
Chapter 18 Other Simple Modes
Chapter 19 Of the Modes of Thinking
Chapter 20 Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain
Chapter 21 Of Power
Chapter 22 Of Mixed Modes
Chapter 23 Of our Complex Ideas of Substances
Chapter 24 Of Collective Ideas of Substances
Chapter 25 Of Relation
Chapter 26 Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations
Chapter 27 Of Identity and Diversity
Chapter 28 Of other Relations
Chapter 29 Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas
Chapter 30 Of Real and Fantastical Ideas
Chapter 31 Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas
Chapter 32 Of True and False Ideas
Chapter 33 Of the Association of Ideas

Book III - Of Words

Chapter 01 Of Words or Language Generally
Chapter 02 Of the Signification of Words
Chapter 03 Of General Terms
Chapter 04 Of the Names of Simple Ideas
Chapter 05 Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations
Chapter 06 Of the Names of Substances
Chapter 07 Of Particles
Chapter 08 Of Abstract and Concrete Terms
Chapter 09 Of the Imperfection of Words
Chapter 10 Of the Abuse of Words
Chapter 11 Of the Remedies of the Foregoing Imperfections and Abuses of Words

Book IV - Of Knowledge and Probability

Chapter 01 Of Knowledge in General
Chapter 02 Of the Degrees of our Knowledge
Chapter 03 Of the Extent of Human Knowledge
Chapter 04 Of the Reality of Knowledge
Chapter 05 Of Truth in General
Chapter 06 Of Universal Propositions: their Truth and Certainty
Chapter 07 Of Maxims
Chapter 08 Of Trifling Propositions
Chapter 09 Of our Threefold Knowledge of Existence
Chapter 10 Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God
Chapter 11 Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things
Chapter 12 Of the Improvement of our Knowledge
Chapter 13 Some Further Considerations Concerning our Knowledge
Chapter 14 Of Judgment
Chapter 15 Of Probability
Chapter 16 Of the Degrees of Assent
Chapter 17 Of Reason
Chapter 18 Of Faith and Reason, and their Distinct Provinces
Chapter 19 Of Enthusiasm
Chapter 20 Of Wrong Assent, or Error
Chapter 21 Of the Division of the Science