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Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.
MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4)

Author: John Locke

Release Date: January 6, 2004 [EBook #10615]

Language: English

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AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING

IN FOUR BOOKS

BY JOHN LOCKE

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista
effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere.
--Cic. De Natur. Deor. 1. i.

LONDON

Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet
Street, near St. Dunstan's Church.

MDCXC

CONTENTS:
[Based on the 2d Edition]

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE EARL OF PEMBROKE

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I. NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE.

I. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES
II. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES
III. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH
SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL

BOOK II. OF IDEAS.

I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL
II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS
III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSATION
IV. IDEA OF SOLIDITY
V. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES
VI. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION ...
VII. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION AND REFLECTION
VIII. SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING OUR SIMPLE
IDEAS OF SENSATION
IX. OF PERCEPTION
X. OF RETENTION
XI. OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND
XII. OF COMPLEX IDEAS
XIII. OF SIMPLE MODES:--AND FIRST, OF THE SIMPLE MODES OF
THE IDEA OF SPACE
XIV. IDEA OF DURATION AND ITS SIMPLE MODES
XV. IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER
XVI. IDEA OF NUMBER AND ITS SIMPLE MODES
XVII. OF THE IDEA OF INFINITY
XVIII. OF OTHER SIMPLE MODES
XIX. OF THE MODES OF THINKING
XX. OF MODES OF PLEASURE AND PAIN
XXI. OF THE IDEA OF POWER
XXII. OF MIXED MODES
XXIII. OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES
XXIV. OF COLLECTIVE IDEA