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HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY 45*310
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THE Introduction and general Scheme
PART I-OF PERCEPTION AND IDEAS.
CHAP. I.-Of the Nature of Ideas
CHAP. II. Of the Objects of Perception
Sect. 1. Of being in general
Sect. 2. Of substances, and their various kinds
Sect. 3. Of modes, and their various kinds; and first of es-
sential and accidental modes
Sect. 4. The farther divisions of mode
Sect. 5. Of the ten categories. Of substance modified
Sect. 6. Of not-being
CHAP. 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
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Sect. 3. Of universal 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, Loge-
ther with the Advantage and Danger of them 36
Sect. 8. The origin or causes of equivocal words
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CHAP. V.-General Directions relating to our Ideas
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Direct. 1. Of acquiring a treasure of ideas
Direct. 2. Of retaining ideas in the memory
Direct. 3. Of selecting useful ideas
Direct. 4. Of the government of our thoughts
CHAP. VI.-Special Rules to direct our Conceptions of
Things
Sect. 1. Of gaining clear and distinct ideas
Sect. 2. Of the definition of words or names
Sect. 3. Directions concerning the definition of names
Sect. 4. Of the definition of things
Sect. 5. Rules of the definition of things
Sect. 6. Observations concerning the definition of things
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
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Sect. 11. Of an orderly conception of things
Sect. 12. These five rules of conception exemplified
Sect. 13. An illustration of these five rules by similitudes
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PART II-OF JUDGMENT AND PROPOSITION. 112
CHAP. I. Of the Nature of a Proposition, and its several
Parts
CHAP. II. Of the various Kinds of Propositions
Sect. 1. Of universal, particular, indefinite, and singular
propositions
Sect. 2. Of affirmative and negative propositions
Sect. 3. Of the opposition and conversion of propositions
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