- Dedication
| CONTENTS. | ||||
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| PREFACE | 1 | |||
| ESSAY I. PRELIMINARY. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Explication of words, | 9 | |
| ― | 2. | Principles taken for granted, | 36 | |
| ― | 3. | Of hypotheses, | 46 | |
| ― | 4. | Of analogy, | 52 | |
| ― | 5. | Of the proper means of knowing the operations of the mind, | 57 | |
| ― | 6. | Of the difficulty of attending to the operations of our own minds, | 61 | |
| ― | 7. | Division of the powers of the mind, | 67 | |
| ― | 8. | Of social operations of mind, | 72 | |
| ESSAY II. OF THE POWERS WE HAVE BY MEANS OF OUR EXTERNAL SENSES. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of the organs of sense, | 75 | |
| ― | 2. | Of the impressions on the organs, nerves, and brain, | 79 | |
| ― | 3. | Hypotheses concerning the nerves and brain, | 82 | |
| ― | 4. | False conclusions drawn from the impressions before mentioned, | 94 | |
| ― | 5. | Of perception, | 105 | |
| ― | 6. | What it is to account for a phaemomenon in Nature, | 112 | |
| ― | 7. | Sentiments of Philosophers about the perceptions of external objects; and, first, Of the theory of Father Malebranche, | 115 | |
| ― | 8. | Of the common theory of perception, and of the sentiments of the Peripatetics, and of Des Cartes, | 125 | |
| ― | 9. | Of the sentiments of Mr Locke, | 143 | |
| ― | 10. | Of the sentiments of Bishop Berkeley, | 156 | |
| ― | 11. | Bishop Berkeley's sentiments of the nature of ideas, | 174 | |
| ― | 12. | Of the sentiments of Mr Hume, | 185 | |
| ― | 13. | Of the sentiments of Anthony Arnauld, | 190 | |
| ― | 14. | Reflections on the common theory of ideas, | 197 | |
| ― | 15. | Account of the system of Leibnitz, | 218 | |
| ― | 16. | Of sensation, | 226 | |
| ― | 17. | Of the objects of perception; and, first, Of primary and secondary qualities, | 235 | |
| ― | 18. | Of other objects of perception, | 248 | |
| ― | 19. | Of matter and of space, | 257 | |
| ― | 20. | Of the evidence of sense, and of belief in general, | 267 | |
| ― | 21. | Of the improvement of the senses, | 278 | |
| ― | 22. | Of the fallacy of the senses, | 288 | |
| ESSAY III. OF MEMORY. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Things obvious and certain with regard to memory, | 303 | |
| ― | 2. | Memory an original faculty, | 306 | |
| ― | 3. | Of duration, | 310 | |
| ― | 4. | Of identity, | 315 | |
| ― | 5. | Of Mr Locke's account of the origin of our ideas, and particularly of the idea of duration, | 322 | |
| ― | 6. | Of Mr Locke's account of our personal identity, | 332 | |
| ― | 7. | Theories concerning memory, | 338 | |
| ESSAY IV. OF CONCEPTION. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of conception, or simple apprehension in general, | 357 | |
| ― | 2. | Theories concerning conception, | 378 | |
| ― | 3. | Mistakes concerning conception, | 395 | |
| ― | 4. | Of the train of thought in the mind, | 405 | |
| ESSAY V. OF ABSTRACTION. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of general words, | 431 | |
| ― | 2. | Of general conceptions, | 438 | |
| ― | 3. | Of general conceptions formed by analysing objects, | 445 | |
| ― | 4. | Of general conceptions formed by combination, | 455 | |
| ― | 5. | Observations concerning the names given to our general notions, | 471 | |
| ― | 6. | Opinions of Philosophers about universals, | 475 | |
| ESSAY VI. OF JUDGMENT. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of judgment in general, | 497 | |
| ― | 2. | Of common sense, | 519 | |
| ― | 3. | Sentiments of Philosophers concerning judgment, | 532 | |
| ― | 4. | Of first principles in general, | 555 | |
| ― | 5. | The first principles of contingent truths, | 575 | |
| ― | 6. | First principles of necessary truths, | 605 | |
| ― | 7. | Opinions, ancient and modern, about first principles, | 632 | |
| ― | 8. | Of prejudices, the causes of error, | 651 | |
| ESSAY VII. OF REASONING. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of reasoning in general, and of demonstration, | 671 | |
| ― | 2. | Whether morality be capable of demonstration, | 678 | |
| ― | 3. | Of probable reasoning, | 689 | |
| ― | 4. | Of Mr Hume's scepticism with regard to reason, | 697 | |
| ESSAY VIII. OF TASTE. | ||||
| Chap. | 1. | Of taste in general, | 713 | |
| ― | 2. | Of the objects of taste, and first of novelty, | 721 | |
| ― | 3. | Of grandeur, | 725 | |
| ― | 4. | Of beauty, | 737 |
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