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LONDON: MARY S. RICKERBY, PRINTER, 73, CANNON STREET,

CITY.

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CONTENTS.

AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

BOOK III.

Page

CHAP. 1.-Of Words or Language in general

1

2.-Of the Signification of Words .

4

3.-Of General Terms.

9

4.-Of the Names of Simple Ideas

21

5.-Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations

30

6.-Of the Names of Substances

40

7.-Of Particles

74

8.-Of abstract and concrete Terms

77

9.-0f the Imperfection of Words........

79

10.-Of the Abuse of Words

94

11.-Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and

Abuses

113

BOOK IV.

129

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134

CHAP. 1.–Of Knowledge in general.

2.-Of the Degrees of our Knowledge

3. -Of the Extent of Human Knowledge

4.–Of the Reality of Knowledge

5.–Of Truth in general

142

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CHAP. 6.—Of universal Propositions, their Truth and Certainty 188

7.-Of Maxims......

201

8.-Of trifling Propositions....

219

9.—Of our Knowledge of Existence

228

10.–Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God 229

11.--Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things 243

12.-Of the Improvement of our Knowledge

252

13.—Some further Considerations concerning our Know-

ledge

263

14.–Of Judgment

265

15.-Of Probability

267

16.–Of the Degrees of Assent.....

271

17.–Of Reason

282

18.—Of Faith and Reason, and their distinct Provinces. 303

.-Of Enthusiasm

311

20.—Of wrong Assent, or Error

321

21.--Of the Division of the Sciences

336

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APPENDIX.

CONTROVERSY WITH THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

Introduction by the Editor

339

AN EXAMINATION OF P. MALEBRANCHE'S OPINION

OF SEEING ALL THINGS IN GOD; WITH RE-

MARKS UPON SOME OF MR. NORRIS'S BOOKS.

Introduction by the Editor

413

ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

472

CHAP. 1.-Of Matter and Motion

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CHAP. 4.-Of the Earth, considered as a Planet

478

5.-Of the Air and Atmosphere

479

6.-Of Meteors in general

481

7.-Of Springs, Rivers, and the Sea

483

8.-Of several Sorts of Earth, Stones, Metals, Minerals,

and other Fossils

485

9.—Of Vegetables, or Plants

486

10.--Of Animals.......

488

11.-Of the five Senses

490

12.–Of the Understanding of Man.....

495

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SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING READING AND

STUDY FOR A GENTLEMAN.

Introduction by the Editor

497

INDEX

505