An Essay concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
PREFACE by the EDITOR.
the LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
to the right honourable THOMAS, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery,
THE EPISTLE to the READER.
BOOK I.
CHAP. I.: Introduction.
CHAP. II.: No Innate Principles in the Mind.
CHAP. III.: No Innate Practical Principles.
CHAP. IV.: Other Considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical.
BOOK II.
CHAP. I.: Of Ideas in general, and their Original.
CHAP. II.: Of Simple Ideas.
CHAP. III.: Of Ideas of one Sense.
CHAP. IV.: Of Solidity.
CHAP. V.: Of Simple Ideas of divers Senses.
CHAP. VI.: Of Simple Ideas of Reflection.
CHAP. VII.: Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection.
CHAP. VIII.: Some farther Considerations concerning our Simple Ideas.
CHAP. IX.: Of Perception.
CHAP. X.: Of Retention.
CHAP. XI.: Of Discerning, and other Operations of the Mind.
CHAP. XII.: Of Complex Ideas.
CHAP. XIII.: Of Simple Modes, and first of the Simple Modes of Space.
CHAP. XIV.: Of Duration, and its simple Modes.
CHAP. XV.: Of Duration and Expansion, considered together.
CHAP. XVI.: Of Number.
CHAP. XVII.: Of Infinity.
CHAP. XVIII.: Of other Simple Modes.
CHAP. XIX.: Of the Modes of Thinking.
CHAP. XX.: Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain.
CHAP. XXI.: Of Power.
CHAP. XXII.: Of mixed Modes.
CHAP. XXIII.: Of our complex Ideas of Substances.
CHAP. XXIV.: Of collective Ideas of Substances.
CHAP. XXV.: Of Relation.
CHAP. XXVI.: Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations.
CHAP. XXVII.: Of Identity and Diversity.
CHAP. XXVIII.: Of other Relations.
CHAP. XXIX.: Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas.
CHAP. XXX.: Of Real and Fantastical Ideas.
CHAP. XXXI.: Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
CHAP. XXXII.: Of true and false Ideas.
CHAP. XXXIII.: Of the Association of Ideas.
BOOK III.
CHAP. I.: Of Words or Language in general.
CHAP. II.: Of the Signification of Words.
CHAP. III.: Of General Terms.
CHAP. IV.: Of the Names of Simple Ideas.
CHAP. V.: Of the Names of mixed Modes and Relations.
CHAP. VI.: Of the Names of Substances.
CHAP. VII.: Of Particles.
CHAP. VIII.: Of Abstract and Concrete Terms.
CHAP. IX.: Of the Imperfection of Words.
CHAP. X.: Of the Abuse of Words.
CHAP. XI.: Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses.
BOOK IV.
CHAP. I.: Of Knowledge in General.
CHAP. II.: Of the Degrees of our Knowledge.
CHAP. III.: Of the Extent of Human Knowledge.
CHAP. IV.: Of the Reality of Knowledge.
CHAP. V.: Of Truth in General.
CHAP. VI.: Of Universal Propositions, their Truth and Certainty.
CHAP. VII.: Of Maxims.
CHAP. VIII.: Of Trifling Propositions.
CHAP. IX.: Of our Knowledge of Existence.
CHAP. X.: Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God.
CHAP. XI.: Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things.
CHAP. XII.: Of the Improvement of our Knowledge.
CHAP. XIII.: Some farther Considerations concerning our Knowledge.
CHAP. XIV.: Of Judgment.
CHAP. XV.: Of Probability.
CHAP. XVI.: Of the Degrees of Assent.
CHAP. XVII.: Of Reason.
CHAP. XVIII.: Of Faith and Reason, and their distinct Provinces.
CHAP. XIX.: Of Enthusiasm.
CHAP. XX.: Of wrong Assent, or Errour.
CHAP. XXI.: Of the Division of the Sciences.
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