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ON, THE
RIGHT USE OF REASON
IN
THE ENQUIRY AFTER TRUTH:
WITH A VARIETY OŠ
Rules to guard against Error,
IN THE
AFFAIRS OF RELIGION AND HUMAN LIFE,
AS WELL AS IN THE SCIENCES,
BY.
ISAAC WATTS, D.D.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG,
NO. 111, CHEAPSIDE.
Page
22 ib.
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THE Introduction and general Scheme
PART 1.-OF PERCEPTION AND IDEAS.
CHAP. I.-Of the Nature of Ideas
ib.
CHAP. II.--Of the Objects of Perception
Sect. 1. Of being in general
Sect. 2. Of substances, and their various kinds
8
Sect. 3. Of modes, and their various kinds; and first of es-
sential and accidental modes
13
Sect. 4. The farther divisions of mode
17
Sect. 5. Of the ten categories. Of substance modified 20
Sect. 6. Of not being
21
CUAP. III.- of the several sorts of Perception or Ideas
Sect: 1. Of sensible, spiritual, and abstracted ideas
Sect. 2. Of simple and complex, compound and collective
ideas
Sect. 3. Ofóniversal and particular ideas, real and imaginary 27
Sect. 4. The division of ideas, with regard to their qualities 31
CHAP. IV.-Of Words, and their several Divisions, toge-
ther with the Advuntuge und Danger of them 36
Sect. 1. Of words in general, and their use
Sect. 2. Of negative and positive terms
41
Sect. 3 Of simple and complex terms
43
Sect. 4. Of words commou and proper
45
Sect. 5. Of concrete and abstract terms
46
Sect. 6. Of univocal and equivocal words
Sect. 7. Of various kinds of equivocal words
48
Sect. 8. The origin or causes of equivocal words
53
CHAP. V.-General Directions relating to our Ideas 56
Direct. 1. Of acquịring a treasure of ideas
ib. Direct. 2. Of retaining ideas in the memory
58
Direct. 3. Of selecting useful ideas
60
Direct. 4. Of the government of our thoughts
61
CHAP. VI.-Special Rules to direct our Conceptions of
Things
63
Sect. 1. Of gaining clear and distinct ideas
Sect. 2. Of the definition of words or names
65
Sect. 3. Directions concerning the definition of names 66
Sect. 4. Of the definition of things
79
Sect. 5. Rules of the definition of things
83
Sect. 6. Observations concerning the definition of things 86
Sect. 7. Of a complete conception of things
Sect. 8. Of division, and the rules of it
Sect. 9. Of a comprehensive conception of things, and of
abstraction
Sect. 10. Of the extensive conception of things, and of dis-
tribution
102
Sect. 11. Of an orderly conception of things
106
Sect. 19. These fiv rules of conception exemplified
167
Sect. 13. An illustration of these five rules by similitudes 109
PART II.-OF JUDGMENT AND PROPOSITION. 11%
CHAP. I. Of the Nature of a Proposition, und its several
Parts
113
CHAP. II.- Of the various kinds of Propositions
116
Sect. 1. Of aniversal, particular, indefinite, and singular
propositions
Sect. 2. Of affirmative and negative propositions
129
124
Sect. 3. Of the opposition and conversion of propositions
93 94
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