Compulsion, 154, s. 13. Confidence, 480, s. 7.
Confusion of ideas, wherein it consists, 252, 253, s. 5-7. causes of confusion in ideas, 253, s. 7—9; 255, s. 12. of ideas, grounded on a reference to names, 254, 255, s. 10-12. its remedy, 255, s. 12.
Confused ideas, 252, s. 4.
years, &c. not necessary to duration, 121, s. 23. change of the measures of duration, change not the notion of it, ib. s. 23. the mea- sures of duration, as the revolutions of the sun, may be applied to duration before the sun existed, 121-123, s. 24, 25, 28. dura- tion without beginning, 122, s. 26. how we measure duration, ib. s. 27-29. recapitula-
Conscience is our own opinion of our own tion, concerning our ideas of duration, time, and eternity, 124, s. 31. actions, 36, s. 8.
Consciousness makes the same person, 221, s. 10, 224, s. 16. probably annexed to the same individual, immaterial substance, 228, s. 25. necessary to thinking, 63, s. 10, 11; 68, s. 19. what, ib. s. 19.
Contemplation, 92, s. 1.
Creation, 213, s. 2. not to be denied, be- cause we cannot conceive the manner how, 141, s. 19.
Definition, why the genus is used in defi- nitions, 286, s. 10.
Defining of terms would cut off a great part of disputes, 349, s. 15.
Demonstration, 375, s. 3. not so clear as intuitive knowledge, ib. s. 4—6; 376, s. 7. intuitive knowledge necessary in each step of a demonstration, 376, s. 7. not limited to quantity, ib. s. 9. why that has been supposed, 377, s. 10. not to be expected in all cases, 461, s. 10. what, 474, s. 1; 471, s. 15.
Desire, 148, s. 6. is a state of uneasiness, 161, s. 31, 32. is moved only by happiness, 165, s. 41. how far, ib. s. 43. how to be raised, 168, s. 46. misled by wrong judg- ment, 174, s. 60.
Dictionaries, how to be made, 365, s. 25. Discerning, 96, s. 1. the foundation of some general maxims, 97, s. 1.
Discourse cannot be between two men, who have different names for the same idea, or different ideas for the same name, 76, s. 5. Despair, 148, s. 11. Disposition, 187, s. 10. Disputing the art of disputing prejudicial to knowledge, 262, s. 6-9. destroys the use of language, 269, s. 10.
Disputes, whence, 350, s. 15. multiplicity of them owing to the abuse of words, 352, s. 22. are most about the signification of words, 358, s. 7.
Distance, 104, s. 3. Distinct ideas, 252, s. 4. Divisibility of matter incomprehensible,
Dreaming, 65, s. 13. seldom in some men, 65, s. 14.
Dreams for the most part irrational, 67, s. 16. in dreams no ideas but of sensation or reflection, ib. s. 17.
Duration, 114, s. 1, 2. whence we get the idea of duration, 114, 115, s. 3-5. not from motion, 118, s. 16. its measure, ib. s. 17, 18. any regular periodical appearance, 119, s. 19, 20. none of its measures known to be exact, 120, s. 21. we only guess them equal by the train of our ideas, ib. s. 21. minutes, days,
Duration and expansion compared, 124, s. 1. they mutually embrace each other, 130, s. 12. considered as a line, 129, s. 11. dura- tion not conceivable by us without succession, 130, s. 12.
Enthusiasm, 504. described, 505, s. 6. its rise, ib. s. 5. ground of persuasion must be examined, and how, 506, s. 10. firmness of it, no sufficient proof, 508, s. 12, 13. fails of the evidence it pretends to, 507, s. 11.
Error, what, 510, s. 1. causes of error, ib. -1. Want of proofs, 511, s. 2.-2. Want of skill to use them, 512, s. 5.-3. Want of will to use them, 513, s. 6.-4. Wrong measures of probability, 513, s. 7. fewer men assent to errors, than is supposed, 519, s. 18.
Essence, real and nominal, 292, s. 15. sup- spe- position of unintelligible, real essences of cies, of no use, 293, s. 17. real and nominal essences, in simple ideas and modes always the same, in substance always different, 294, s. 18. essences, how ingenerable and incor- ruptible, ib. s. 19. specific essences of mixed modes are of men's making, and how, 301, s. 3. though arbitrary, yet not at random, 303, s. 7. of mixed modes, why called notions, 305, s. 12. what, 308, s. 2. relate only to species, 309, s. 4. real essences, what, 311, s. 6. we know them not, 311, s. 9. our specific essences of substances, nothing but collections of sen- sible ideas, 315, s. 21. nominal are made by the mind, 318, s. 26. but not altogether arbi- trarily, 319, s. 28. nominal essences of sub stances, how made, 319, 320, s. 28, 29. are very various, 320, s. 30; 321, s. 31. of spe cies, are the abstract ideas, the names stand for, 313, s. 12; 315, s. 19. are of man's mak- ing, 313, s. 12. but founded in the agreement of things, 314, s. 13. real essences determine not our species, 315, s. 18. every distinct, ab- stract idea, with a name, is a distinct essence of a distinct species, 8, s. 1. real essences of substances, not to be known. 428, s. 12.
Essential, what, 308, s. 2; 309, s. 5. no- thing essential to individuals, 309, s. 4. but to species, 310, s. 6.
Essential difference, what, S09, s. 5. Eternal verities, 463, s. 14.
Eternity, in our disputes and reasonings about it, why we are apt to blunder, 256, s. 15. whence we get its idea, 122, s. 27. Evil, what, 165, s. 42.
Existence, an idea of sensation and reflec- tion, 80, s. 7. our own existence we know in- tuitively, 450, s. 2. and cannot doubt of it, ib. of creatable things, knowable only by our senses, 458, s. 1. past existence known only by memory, 462, s. 11.
Expansion, boundless, 125, s. 2. should be applied to space in general, 112, s. 27. Experience often helps us, where we think not that it does, 89, s. 8.
Extension: we have no distinct ideas of very great, or very little extension, 256, s. 16. of body, incomprehensible, 201, s. 23, &c. denominations, from place and extension, are many of them relatives, 215, s. 5. and body not the same thing, 107, s. 11. its definition in signification, 108, s. 15. of body and of space how distinguished, 76, s. 5; 112, s. 27.
Faculties of the mind first exercised, 100, s. 14. are but powers, 155, s. 17. operate not, 156, s. 18, 20.
Faith and opinion, as distinguished from knowledge, what, 474, 475, s. 2, 3. and knowledge their difference, 475, s. 3. what, 483, s. 14. not opposite to reason, 497, s. 24. as contradistinguished to reason, what, 498, s. 2. cannot convince us of any thing contrary to our reason, 500, 501, &c. s. 5, 6, 8. matter of faith is only divine revelation, 501, s. 9. things above reason are only proper matters of faith, ib. s. 7; ib. s. 9.
Falsehood, what it is, 421, s. 9. Fancy, 421, s. 8.
Fantastical ideas, 258, s. 1. Fear, 148, s. 10.
Figure, 105, s. 5, 6.
Figurative speech, an abuse of language, 356, s. 34.
Finite, and infinite, modes of quantity, 133, s. 1. all positive ideas of quantity, finite, 136, s. 8.
Forms, substantial forms distinguish not species, 312, s. 10.
Free, how far a man is so, 157, s. 21. a man not free to will, or not to will, 157, 158, 8. 22-24.
Freedom belongs only to agents, 156, s. 19. wherein it consists, 159, s. 27. free will, li- berty belongs not to the will, 154, s. 14. wherein consists that which is called free will, 158, s. 24; 168, s. 47.
General ideas, how made, 99, s. 9. know- ledge, what, 410, s. 31. propositions cannot be known to be true, without knowing the es- sence of the species, 422, s. 4. words, how made, 283, s.6-8. belongs only to signs, 287, s. 11.
Gentlemen should not be ignorant, 513, s. 6. Genus and species, what, 286, s. 10. are but Latin names for sorts, 304, s. 9. is but a par- tial conception of what is in the species, 322, s. 32. and species adjusted to the end of speech, 323, s. 33. and species are made in order to general names, 325, s. 39.
God immoveable, because infinite, 201, s. 21. fills immensity as well as eternity, 125, s. 3. his duration not like that of the crea- tures, 130, s. 12. an idea of God, not innate, 48, s. 8. the existence of a God evident, and obvious to reason, 50, s. 9. the notion of a God once got, is the likeliest to spread and be continued, 50, 51, s. 9, 10. idea of God late and imperfect, 52, s. 13. contrary, 53, s. 15, 16. inconsistent, 53, s. 15. the best notions of God, got by thought and applica- tion, 53, s. 15. notions of God frequently not worthy of him, 54, s. 16. the being of a God certain, ib. proved, 450, s. 1. as evident, as that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, 57, s. 22. yea, as that two opposite angles, are equal, 54, s. 16. more certain than any other existence without us, 451, s. 6. the idea of God not the only proof of his existence, 451, s. 7. the being of a God, the foundation of morality and divinity, ib. s. 7. how we make our idea of God, 206, s. 33, 34.
Gold is fixed; the various significations of this proposition, 329, s. 50. water strained through it, 76, s. 4.
Good and evil, what, 147, s. 2. 165, s. 42. the greater good determines not the will, 162, s 35; 163, s. 38; 166, s. 44. why, ib. s. 44. 168, s. 46; 174, &c.; s. 59, 60, 64, 65, 68. two-fold, 175, s. 61. works on the will only by desire, 168, s. 46. desire of good, how to be raised, 168, s. 46, 47.
Habitual actions pass often without our notice, 90, s. 10.
Hair, how it appears in a microscope, 197, s. 11.
Happiness, what, 165, s. 42. what happi- ness men pursue, 166, s. 43. how we come to rest in narrow happiness, 174, 175, s. 59, 60. Hardness, what, 76, s. 4.
Hatred, 148, s. 5; 149, s. 14.
Heat and cold, how the sensation of them both is produced, by the same water, at the same time, 85, s. 21.
History, what history of most authority, 481, s. 11.
Hypotheses, their use, 515, s. 11. are to be built on matter of fact, 63, s. 10.
Ice and water whether distinct species, 314, s. 13.
Ideas, their original in children, 46, s. 2; 52, s. 13. none innate, 54, s. 17. because not remembered, 56, s. 20. are what the mind is employed about in thinking, 60, s. 1. all from sensation or reflection, 61, s. 2, &c. how this is to be understood, 383. their way of getting, observable in children, 62, s. 6. why some have more, some fewer, ideas, 62, s. 7. of re- flection got late, and in some very negligently, 63, s. 8. their beginning and increase in chil-
dren, 69, s. 21-24. their original in sensation and reflection, 70, s. 24. of one sense, 73, s. 1. want names, 74, s. 2. of more than one sense, 77. of reflection, 78, s. 1. of sensation and reflection, ib. s. 1. as in the mind, and in things, must be distinguished, 80. s. 7. not always resemblances, 84, s. 15, &c. which are first, is not material to know, 89, s. 7. of sensation often altered by the judgment, 89, s. 8. principally those of sight, 90, s. 9. of reflection, 100, s. 14. simple ideas men agree in, 113, s. 28. moving in a regular train in our minds, 116, s. 9. such as have degrees, want names, 144, s. 6. why some have names, and others not, ib. s. 7. original, 183, s. 73. all complex ideas resolvable into simple, 186, 5. 9. what simple ideas have been most modi- fied, 187, s. 10. our complex idea of God, and other spirits, common in every thing, but infinity, 207, s. 36. clear and obscure, 251, s. 2. distinct and confused, 252, s. 4. may be clear in one part, and obscure in another, 255, s. 13. real and fantastical, 258, s. 1. simple are all real, ib. s. 2. and adequate, 260, s. 2. what ideas of mixed modes are fan- tastical, 259, s. 4. what ideas of substances are fantastical, 259, s. 5. adequate and inade- quate, 260, s. 1. how said to be in things, 260, s. 2. modes are all adequate ideas, 261, s. 3. unless as referred to names, 261, 262, s. 4, 5. of substances inadequate, 265, s. 11.—1. As referred to real essences, 262, s. 6; 264, s. 7. -2. As referred to a collection of simple ideas, 264, s. 8. simple ideas are perfect ExTuna, 265, s. 12. of substances are perfect exтuwa, 266, s. 13. of modes are perfect archetypes, 266, s. 14. true or false, 266, s. 1, &c. when false, 272, 273, s. 21-25. as bare appearances in the mind, neither true nor false, 267, s. 3. as referred to other men's ideas, or to real ex- istence, or to real essences, may be true or false, 267, s. 4, 5. reason of such reference, 267,268, s. 6--8. simple ideas referred to other men's ideas, least apt to be false, 268, s. 9. complex ones, in this respect, more apt to be false, especially those of mixed modes, 269, s. 10. simple ideas referred to existence, are all true, 269, s. 14; 270, s. 16. though they should be different in different men, 270, s. 15. complex ideas of modes are all true, 271, s. 17. of substances when false, 272, s. 21, &c. when right or wrong, 273, s. 26. that we are incapable of, 404, s. 23. that we cannot attain, because of their remoteness, 405, s. 24. because of their minuteness, 406, s. 25. simple have a real conformity to things, 411, s. 4. and all others, but of substances, 411, s. 5. simple cannot be got by definition of words, 298, s. 11. But only by experience, 299, s. 14. of mixed modes, why most com- pounded, 299, s. 13. specific, of mixed modes, how at first made: instance in kin- neah and niouph, 327, s. 44, 45. of sub- stances: instance in zahab, 328, s. 46; 329, s. 47. simple ideas and modes have all ab- stract, as well as concrete, names, 333, s. 2. of substances, have scarce any abstract names,
333. different in different men, 338, s. 13. our ideas almost all relative, 150, s. 3. parti- culars are first in the mind, 336, s. 9. general are imperfect, ib. s. 9. how positive ideas may be from private causes, 81, s. 4. the use of this term not dangerous, 81, 17, &c. It is fitter than the word notion, 82, 18. words as liable to be abused as this, ib. Yet it is condemned, both as new and not new, 19. the same with notion, sense, meaning, &c. 367.
Identical propositions teach nothing, 443, s. 2.
Identity, not an innate idea, 46, 47, s.3—5. and diversity, 215, s. 1. of a plant, wherein it consists, 217, s. 4. of animals, 218, s. 5. of a man, ib. s. 6; 219, s. 8. unity of sub- stance does not always make the same iden- tity, 218, s. 7. personal identity, 220, s. 9. depends on the same consciousness, 221, s. 10. continued existence makes identity, 229. s. 29. and diversity, in ideas, the first perception of the mind, 370, s. 4.
Idiots and madmen, 100, s. 12, 13.
Ignorance, our ignorance infinitely exceeds our knowledge, 404, s. 22. causes of igno- rance, ib. s. 23.-1. For want of ideas, ib.— 2. For want of a discoverable connexion be- tween the ideas we have, 407, s. 28.-3. For want of tracing the ideas we have, 409, s. 30. Illation, what, 484, s. 2.
Immensity, 104, s. 4. how this idea is got, 134, s. 3.
Immoralities of whole nations, 36, s. 9; 37, s. 11.
Immortality, not annexed to any shape, 416, s. 15.
Impenetrability, 46, s. 1. Imposition of opinions unreasonable, 478,
Impossibile est idem esse et non esse, not the first thing known, 30, s. 25.
Impossibility, not an innate idea, 46, s. Impression on the mind, what, 21, s. 5. Inadequate ideas, 251, s. 1. Incompatibility, how far knowable, 400,
Individuationis principium, is existence, 217, s. 3.
Infallible judge of controversies, 51. s. 12. Inference, what, 473, s. 2-4.
Infinite, why the idea of infinite not appli- cable to other ideas as well as those of quan- tity, since they can be as often repeated, 135, s. 6. the idea of infinity of space or number, and of space or number infinite, must be dis- tinguished, 136, s. 7. our idea of infinite, very obscure, ib. s. 8. number furnishes us with the clearest ideas of infinite, 137, s. 9. the idea of infinite, a growing idea, 138, s. 12. our idea of infinite, partly positive, partly comparative, partly negative, 139. s. 15. why some men think they have an idea of infinite duration, but not of infinite space, 141, s. 20. why disputes about infinity are usually perplexed, 142, s. 21. our idea of infinity has its original in sensation and re-
flection, 143, s. 22. we have no positive idea of infinite, 138; s. 13, 14; 140, s. 16.
Infinity, why more commonly allowed to duration than to expansion, 125, s. 4. how applied to God by us, 133, s. 1. how we get this idea, 134, s. 2, 3. the infinity of number, duration, and space, different ways considered, 129, s. 10, 11.
Innate truths must be the first known, 31, s. 26. principles to no purpose, if men can be ignorant or doubtful of them, 39, s. 13. principles of my Lord Herbert examined, 40, s. 15, &c. moral rules to no purpose, if effaceable, or alterable, 43, s. 20. proposi- tions must be distinguished from other by their clearness and usefulness, 58, s. 24. the doctrine of innate principles of ill conse- quence, ib.
Instant, what, 116, s. 10. and continual change, 117. s. 13-15.
Intuitive knowledge, 374, s. 1. our highest certainty, 494, s. 14.
Invention, wherein it consists, 95, s. 8. Joy, 148, s. 7.
Iron, of what advantage to mankind, 468,
Judgment: wrong judgments, in reference to good and evil, 174, s. 58. right judg ment, 478, s. 4. one cause of wrong judg- ment, 477, s. 3. wherein it consists, 472, &c.
Knowledge has a great connexion with words, 354, s. 25. the author's definition of it explained and defended, 368, note. How it differs from faith, 474, 475, s. 2, 3; 368, note. what, 367, s. 2. how much our know- ledge depends on our senses, 364, s. 23. actual, 372, s. 8. habitual, ib. s. 8. habitual, twofold, ib. s. 9. intuitive, 374, s. 1. intui- tive, the clearest, ib. intuitive, irresistible, ib. demonstrative, ib. s. 2. of general truths, iş all either intuitive or demonstrative, 378, s. 14. of particular existences, is sensitive, ib. clear ideas do not always produce clear knowledge, 379, s. 15. what kind of know- ledge we have of nature, 511, s. 2. its beginning and progress, 101, s. 15-17; 25, s. 15, 16. given us, in the faculties to attain it, 51, s. 12. men's knowledge ac- cording to the employment of their faculties, 57, s. 22. to be got only by the application of our own thought to the contemplation of things, 58, s. 23. extent of human knowledge, 374. our knowledge goes not beyond our ideas, ib. s. 1. nor beyond the perception of their agreement or disagreement, ib. s. 2. reaches not to all our ideas, 375, s. 3. much less to the reality of things, ib. s. 6. yet very improvable if right ways are taken, ib. s. 6. of co-existence very narrow, 398, s. 9—11. and therefore, of substances very narrow, 399, &c. s. 14-16. of other relations indeter- minable, 401, s. 18. of existence, 404, s. 21. certain and universal, where to be had, 408, s. 29. ill use of words, a great hinderance of knowledge, 409, s. 30. general, where to be got, 410, s. 31. lies only in our thoughts,
428, s. 13. reality of our knowledge, 410. of mathematical truths, how real, 412, s. 6. of morality, real, ib. s. 7. of substances, how far real, 414, s. 12. what makes our knowledge real, 411, s. 3. considering things, and not names, the way to knowledge, 415, s. 13. of substance, wherein it consists, 414, s. 11. what required to any tolerable knowledge of substances, 429, s. 14. self-evident, 430. s 2. of identity and diversity, as large as our ideas, 397, s. 8; 431, s. 4. wherein it consists, ib. of co-existence, very scanty, 432, s. 5. of relations of modes, not so scanty, ib. s. 6. of real existence, none, 433, s. 7. begins in par- ticulars, ib. s. 9. intuitive of our own exist- ence, 449, s. 3. demonstrative of a God, ib. s. 1. improvement of knowledge, 464, not improved by maxims, ib. s. 1. why so thought, ib. 2. knowledge improved, only by perfect- ing and comparing ideas, 466, s. 6; 470, s. 14. and finding their relations, 466, s. 7. by inter- mediate ideas, 470, s. 14. in substances, how to be improved, 467, s. 9. partly necessary, partly voluntary, 471, s. 1, 2. why some, and so little, ib. s. 2. how increased, 479. s. 6.
Language, why it changes, 344, s. 1. wherein it consists, 279, s. 1-3. its use, 303, s. 7. its imperfections, 333, s. 1. double use, 334. the use of language destroyed by the subtilty of disputing, 346, s. 6; 347, s. 8. ends of language, 354. s. 23. its imperfections, not easy to be cured, 357, s. 2; ib. s. 4-6. the cure of them necessary to philosophy, 357, s. 3. to use no word without a clear and distinct idea annexed to it, is one remedy of the imperfections of language, 359, s. 8, 9. propriety in the use of words, another remedy, 360. s. 11.
Law of nature generally allowed, 35, s. 6. there is, though not innate, 39, s. 13. its en- forcement, 243, s. 6.
Learning: the ill state of learning in these latter ages, 333, &c. of the schools lies chiefly in the abuse of words, 336, &c. such learning of ill consequence, 337, s. 10, &c.
Liberty, what, 152, 153, &c. s. 8—12; 155, s. 15. belongs not to the will, 154, s. 14. to be determined by the result of our own de liberation, is no restraint of liberty, 169, s. 48-50. founded in a power of suspending our particular desires, 168, s. 47; 170, s. 51, 52.
Light, its absurd definitions, 297, s. 10. light in the mind, what, 508, s. 13.
Logic has introduced obscurity into lan- guages, 346, s. 6, 7. and hindered knowledge, ib. s. 7.
s. 3; 316, s. 22; 319, s. 27. the boundaries of the human species not determined, 319, s. 27. what makes the same individual man, 226, s. 21; 229, s. 29. the same man may be different persons, 225, s. 19.
Mathematics, their methods, 466, s.7.im- provement, 470, s. 15.
Matter, incomprehensible, both in its cohe- sion and divisibility, 201, s. 23; 205, s. 30, 31. what, 339, s. 15. whether it may think, is not to be known, 380, s. 6. cannot produce motion, or any thing else, 452, s. 10. and motion cannot produce thought, ib. not eter- nal, 456, s. 18.
Maxims, 430, &c. ; 439, s. 12-15. not alone self-evident, 431, s. 3. are not the truths first known, 533, s. 9. not the foundation of our knowledge, 434, s. 10, wherein their evi dence consists, ib. s. 10. their use, 435–439. s. 11, 12. why the most general self-evident propositions alone pass for maxims, 435, s. 11. are commonly proofs, only where there is no need of proofs, 441, s. 15. of little use, with clear terms, 442, s. 19. of dangerous use, with doubtful terms, 439, s. 12; 442, s. 20. when first known, 23, &c. s. 9-13; 24, s. 14; 25, s. 16. how they gain assent, 28, s. 21, 22. made from particular observations, ib. not in the understanding before they are actually known, 28, s. 22, neither their terms nor ideas innate, 29, s. 23. least known to chil- dren and illiterate people, 31, s. 27.
Memory, 92, s. 2. attention, pleasure, and pain, settled ideas in the memory, 93, s. 3. and repetition, ib. s. 4; 94, s. 6. difference of, 93, s. 4, 5. in remembrance, the mind sometimes active, sometimes passive, 94, s. 7. its necessity, 93, 9. 5; 95, s. 8. defects, 95, s. 8, 9. in brutes, 96, s. 10.
Metaphysics, and school divinity, filled with uninstructive propositions, 447, s. 9. Method used in mathematics, 466, s. 7. Mind, the quickness of its actions, 90, s. 10. Minutes, hours, days, not necessary to du- ration, 121, s. 23.
Miracles, 483, s. 13. Misery, what, 165, s. 42.
Modes, mixed, 184, s. 1. made by the mind, ib. s. 2. sometimes got by the expli- cation of their names, 183, s. 3. whence its unity, ib. s. 4. occasion of mixed modes, ib. s. 5. their ideas, how got, 186, s. 9. modes sim- ple and complex, 103, s. 5. simple modes, 104, s. 1. of motion, 143, s. 2.
Moral good and evil, what, 243, s. 5. three rules whereby men judge of moral rectitude, 244, s. 7. beings, how founded on simple ideas of sensation and reflection, 248, s. 14, 15. rules not self-evident, 34, s. 4. variety of opi- nions concerning moral rules, 34, 35, s. 5, 6. rules, if innate, cannot with public allowance be transgressed, 37-39, s. 11, 13.
Morality, capable of demonstration, 495, s. 16; 401, s. 18; 467, s. 8. the proper study of mankind, 468, s. 11. of actions, in their conformity to a rule, 248, s. 15. mistakes in moral notions, owing to names, 249, s. 16.
discourses in morality, if not clear, the fault of the speaker, 362, s. 17. hinderances of de- monstrative treating of morality: 1. Want of marks ;-2. Complexedness, 402, s. 19;-3. Interest, 403, s. 20. change of names in mo- rality, changes not the nature of things, 413, s. 9. and mechanism, hard to be reconciled, s. 14. secured amidst men's wrong judgments, 180, s. 70.
Motion, slow or very swift, why not per- ceived, 116, s. 7. 11. voluntary, inexplicable, 457, s. 19. its absurd definitions, 296, s. 8, 9.
Naming of ideas, 99, s. 8.
Names, moral, established by law, not to be varied from, 414, s. 10. of substances, standing for real essences, are not capable to convey certainty to the understanding, 419, s. 5. for nominal essences, will make some, though not manycertain propositions, 420,s.6. why men substitute names for real essences, which they know not,351, s. 19. two false sup- positions, in such a use of names, 352, s. 21. a particular name to every particular thing impossible, 284, s. 2. and useless, ib. s. 3. proper names, where used, 285, s. 4, 5. spe- cific names are affixed to the nominal essence, 293, s. 16. of simple ideas and substances, refer to things, 295, s. 2. what names stand for both real and nominal essence, ib. s. S. of simple ideas not capable of definitions, ib. s. 4. why, 296, s. 7. of least doubtful significa- tion, 299,8.15.have few accents in linea prædi- camentali, 300, s. 16. of complex ideas, may be defined, 298, s. 12. of mixed modes stand for arbitrary ideas, 301, s. 2, 3; 327, s. 44. tie together the parts of their complex ideas, 304, s. 10. stand always for the realjessence, 306, s. 14. why got, usually, before the ideas are known, ib. s. 15. of relations compre- hended under those of mixed modes, 307, s. 16. general names of substances stand for sorts, 308, s. 1. necessary to species, 325, s. 39. proper names belong only to substances, 326, s. 42. of modes in their first application, 327, s. 44, 45. of substances in their first ap- plication, 328, s. 46, 47. specific names stand for different things in different men, 329, s. 48. are put in the place of the thing supposed to have the real essence of the species, ib. s. 49. of mixed modes, doubtful often, 355, s. 6. because they want standards in nature, ib. s. 7. of substances, doubtful, 357, &c. s. 11, 14. in their philosophical use, hard to have settled significations, 339, s. 15, in- stance, liquor, 340, s. 16; gold, ib. s. 17. of simple ideas, why least doubtful, 341, s. 18. least compounded ideas have the least dubious names, 342, s. 19.
Natural philosophy, not capable of science, 406, s. 26; 468, s. 10. yet very useful, 469, s. 12. how to be improved, ib. what has hin- dered its improvement, ib. s. 12.
Negative terms, 279, s. 4. names signify the absence of positive ideas, 81, s. 5. Newton, 435, s. 11.
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