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Clair-confus conceptions, are they pos- sible to the blind ? 140.
Cohesion, causes traction, 54; in all bodies, 125; its explanation as diffi- cult as that of thought, 231 ; not es- sential to extension, 231 ; does it arise from pressure of ambient fluid? 231, 232.
Color of gold would disappear if senses more penetrating, 227.
Colors, their common properties, 323 ; their divisions, .323; intimate nat- ure of, determined by analogy, 549.
Comenius, his air-gun argument, 4(i6 ; his "LuxinTenebris," 604; prophe- cies popular, 604.
Cone, an illustration of the gliding of the sensible and rational into each other, 549.
Configuration can abide specifically without abiding individually, 240.
Conscience, borne witness to by best part of race, 90 ; remorse of, 91 ; " laniatus et ictus " of, 91.
Conscious, we are not always, of hab- its and stores of memory, 46.
Consciousness of objects il'^pendent oti attention, 115; what? 245; "silent in lorgetfulness," 247; cannot be transferred, 247, 248 ; as a represen- tation, 248.
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"Containing" and "contained" not same as " whole " and "part," 569.
Contemplation, 165, l(i6; of acquired knowledge, 142; of innate knowl- edge, 142.
Continuity, law of, 50, .334, 552; ap- parently violated for reasons of beauty, 552; why not evident be- tween man and beast, 552.
Contradiction, axiom of, a first princi- ple, 14 ; made use of always, 77 ; how it may be employed in logic, 406, 407 ; how it may be employed in mathematics, 406.
Controversy, often dne to the disput- ers ' ' spealiing a different language while meaning the same thing," 388.
Copernican hypothesis, one opposed to it maintained with zeal, 613.
Copernicus, 419 ; the detriment of sup- pressing his views, 614.
Copy, force of a, as evidence, 541 ; coi:)y of a, its value in evidence, 541 ; adds no weight to the original, 545.
Councils, advantage and disadvantage of, 617; their sphere according to Henry Holden, 617, 618.
Creation, continuous, 16, !>U ; Locke's statement concerning, that " its mys- tery is open to some extent to pro- found meditation," 509; probable that Locke's hinted explication is Platonic, 510; not more inconceiv- able than movements produced in bodies by volition, 510; a gradual connection in all its parts, 549; the boundaries of its sensible and ra- tional regions difficult to define, 549.
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Creator, ruled by nature of things, 431 ; l>roduces and conserves only what suits the nature of things, 431 ; pro- duces only what can be explained by their natures, 431 ; gives no acci- dental powers detached from inward constitution, 431 ; acts according to general reason, 431; knowledge of his acts, because of their reasonable-
ness, Eot beyond us, 431 ; difficulty of comprehending his work not in their reasons but their multitude, 431.
Criterion of objects of sense : the con- nection of the phenomena, 422 ; veri- fication by truths of reason, 422 ; yet does not aiiord highest certitude, 422.
Cromwell, Oliver, did he ever leave the British Isles? 543.
Cyrano, de Bergerac, his "Voyages," 399 ; fancies of, concerning beings in the sun, 228, 229; in the moon, 551.
Dahlberg, Count of, his plans of the battles of Charles Gustavus of Sweden, 543; his defence of Riga, 543.
Day and night, their succession in twenty-four hours not necessary, 43.
Death, a sleep, 49, 52 ; cannot last always, 53; separation in, proves movement of soul, 229.
Deduction, as an instinct and as a log- ical power, 88; employed by all, 88.
Definition, nominal, 17, 316, 339; real, 17, 316 ; as applied to substances and predicates, 317 ; emiiiric, only pro- visional, 324 ; external marks in, sufficient for exact, 330; should be capable of being substituted for name, 340; dependent on exterior of bodies imperfect and provisional.
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342; often several, for an object, 392; whose possibility appears at once to involve intuitive knowledge, 410; adequate, contains intuitive knowledge, 410. Degrees of assent, 532. Deity, knowledge of, given by nature, 72 ; confirmed and rectified by knowl- edge, 72 ; readiness with which men have received notion of, if tradi- tion or not, proves that it comes from depth of soni, 72. Ae? TTLffreijetv rdv fiavddvovTa, 519. Democritus, 65 ; his promise of another life, (it) ; his correct surmise regard- ing Milky Way, 277 ; atoms of, 309 ; the principle of individuation in con- nection with his atomic theory, 309. Demonstration, defined, 22, 556 ; phil- osophic, why inferior to mathemat- ical, 416, 417 ; not to be always ex- pected, 512 ; mathematical, its stages, 556. Demonstrative knowledge, not so clear as intuitive, 411; illustrated by a series of mirrors, 411. Demonstrative science founded on in- nate knowledge, 77. Denial is positive, 131, 289. Denominatlo pure extrinseca, cannot
exist metaphysically, 23(>. Denomination, intrinsic, 456; extrin- sic, 456. Deo, omnia in, videre, 3. Desargues, on tints and shades, 137. Descartes, 62, 64, 67, 123, 466 ; advo- cated innate idea of God, 70 ; on fal- laciousness of senses, 134 ; on limit- less matter, 154; makes infinite equal to indefinite, 154 ; his idea about pineal gland insufBcient, 'I'M ; his affection for squint-eyed persons, 283 ; his idea of body, 483 ; denies a vacuum, 483; at La Fleche, 504; on Bacon's method, 526; his expected telescope, 551 ; his hypothesis uncon- firmed, 552 ; employed the knowledge of his time, 552 ; on solution of equa- tion of fourth degree, 572; applies calculus to geometry, 573. Description may fall upon the impossi- ble, 398, 399. 3e
Desire, founded on uneasiness, 49; what? 168-170, 189; its relation to pain, 170 ; accompanies the passions, 198; in midst of joy leads to new actions and neglect of present pleas- ures, 198 ; produces voluntary ac- tion, 199 ; aroused by happiness, 200 ; its suspension is man's freedom, 202 ; its advantage, 202, 203 ; occurs through insensible lassitude, 202 ; oc- curs through contrary inclinations, 202 ; may be brought about by methodical mental processes, 203; brought about by direct power of mind, 204.
Determination, of will, what? 183; useful and necessary, 205 ; needful to effective choice, 205; does not necessitate, but incline, 206 ; an in- clination rather than a necessity, 206; when founded on reason gives largest freedom, 206; resting on final result necessary to freedom, 205 ; its strength in superior beings does not limit their freedom, 205 ; "confirmation" of unfallen angels rests on, 205; is in God, and is not inconsistent with perfect divine free- dom, 206.
Dictionaries of simple ideas observed in individuals of each species desid- erated, 394 ; with small illustrations, recommended, 394 ; Chinese have il- lustrated, 395; "the most excellent of," 49.
Discovery, finds general truths, 474; a chance example often assists in, 475 ; ways of, might be systematized, 47() ; sometimes arrived at by ra- tional but extended circuits, 476.
Discussion, art of, its importance, 477 ; frequent in beginning of Reforma- tion, 477 ; art of, needs remodelling, 478; "last word" in, 478; assump- tions in, 479; confusion in, from want of axioms, 479 ; rules and ex- ceptions in, 480; replications and duplications in, 480; cavilling in, reprehended, 4S1 ; its academic for- mula; not to be paraded in conver- sation, 482; of matters of faith, regarded by some as of the devil, 610.
Dispositions, remains of past impres- sions in the soul, 143 ; conscious of, on occasions, 143.
Distance, what? 149; of places and times, congruity between, 209.
Diversity, involves an internal princi- ple of distinction, 238; time and space are helps to recognize, 238 ; not destroyed by interpenetration, 238.
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Dreams, absence of, no disproof of soul's activity, 115 ; leave marks on brain, 117 ; shall we infer from inco- herency of, that rational thought de- pends on body ? 117 ; of persons and places before they have been ceeu by dreamer, 514.
Duration, 155-158, 220; idea of, how awakened ? 156 ; could perceptions give idea of ? 156 ; how measured ? 156 ; not comprehensible in all its extensjou, 158 ; indicates possibilities beyond supposition of existences, 158 ; infinite, an easier conception than an infinite expansion of space, 158.
Duties and sins, how they differ from virtues and vices, 261, 262.
Ego, spiritual, preserved, 241 ; has no parts, 247; same physical preserved, 247.
Egyptian, geometers, 22, 416; vases religiously decorated, 390.
Entelechy , 66 ; Aristotle's view of, 174 Leibnitz's view of, 174.
Entelechies, when they are souls, 175 , perception belongs to all, 218; sub- stantial unities, 2.14 ; primitive, their bodies machines, 362.
Enthusiasm, Locke's thoughts on, 31- 37; defined, 32, 33,596, 597; difBcult to rescue its victim, 33, 600, CO! ; its
ground examined, 33, 34, 596; how to guard against, 35 ; rests on a feel- ing of revelation, 597 ; at first had a good signilication, 598.
Epicurean atom, 54 ; tendency to mo- tion when at rest, 380 ; tendency to motion is gravity, 382.
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Equation, method of solution often depends on good luck, 572.
Errors, arise from false principles as- sumed as once proved, 37; arise from carelessness in deduction, 37 ; arise from the bias given by emotion, 37, 38; arise from little time left for study by necessary occupation, 607 ; of people of leisure, 608 ; of people of narrow logical power, 608 ; are they dependent on nature of soul or lack of exercise ? 608, 609 ; often due to power of example, 609 ; enter- tained by those who lack will to study, 609; from false measures of probability, 610 ; arise from earliest education, 611; arise from believing teachings of an accepted communion, 611; from accepted hypothesis, 613 ; from improperly understood author- ity, 616; the sin of, 607, 616; not so common as apparent? 620.
Essay, concerning Human Understand- ing, by Locke, its translation into French, 4, 27, 65 ; its successive edi- tions and abstracts, 4, 26, 27 ; its con- tents, 4, 6, 70; its translation into Latin, 37, 65; errors corrected in, and additions made to, 26, 27 ; com- mended, 567.
Essence, its import, .315; 'nominal' and ' real,' is the terminology cor- rect? 315, 316, 385; and definition distinguished, 316 ; and property dis-
tinguished, 317 ; how perpetual, 318 ; into which opinion enters, 328; half nominal, 328 ; is it confined to sorts or does it enter into individuals ? 331 ; real, when chimerical, 356; more than signs, 366 ; words may be used regarding, 387; if unknown in some respects, may be known in others, 387 ; our ignorance of, does not pre- vent their existence, 387 ; a real, may be assumed by means of a reciprocal proposition as to genus and species, 457,' of substance, makes its quali- ties emanate from its depths, and makes itself known by them, 480; knowledge of, arrived at by abstrac- tion, 497 ; and existence, 498 ; natu- ral as applied to accidents, 498.
Eternal truths, their reality in connec- tion with ideas, 516 ; require either created orDi\4ne mind for existence, 516 ; the Divine mind their constant region, 516.
Eternity, how notion originates, 158; in what sense a positive idea of, pos- sible, 164; we have a just idea of, but no image, 274.
Ethics, a true philosophy strengthens, 66; though demonstrative has its innate principles, 85, 86 ; its maxims often only convenient rules, 86 ; its truths not independent, 86 ; has prin- ciples which are not demonstrable, 8(j ; has principles not known purely by reason, 86 ; its maxims sometimes known by instinct, 86, 89; deriva- tive truths of, 87 ; depends on dem- onstrations furnished by natural light, 89 ; are not perceived at once, 89 ; obedience usually unreasoning, 90 ; its impulses not invincible, 90 ; natural impressions serve in, only as aids to reason, and indices to the plan of nature, 91 ; natural instincts not beyond, but in spite of exceptions tend to what is right and decent, 91 ; if geometry were as much opposed to men's inclinations as, it would be equally contested, 93; best treated by definition, 392; and metaphysics, 49.'i ; geometry might be applied in, 524; what it comprises, 621.
Eucharist, opinions concerning, 611 ; participation in, of tiiought, 613.
Enclid, 14, 22, 44, 93, 108, 403, 404, 416, 463, 465, 467, 471, 473, 491, 522, 523, 613; does not expressly use " tlie whole is equal to the sum of its parts," 471 ; does use " the whole is greater than its parts," 471 ; axioms of, diminished hy Roberval, 473; his definition of a straight line obscure and gives rise to difficulties, 522 ; his demonstrations, arguments in form, 559, 560.
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Evil, what? 1G7, 200, 202, 260; its ad- vantages, 170. [198.
Existence, our own, known by intui- tion, 18, 439, 498, 499; of God, by demonstration, 18, 439, 499, 500; idea of, whence? 130,220; real, one of the "four sorts of agreement or disa- greement," 400 ; beyond the mind, how determined, 419 ; of things besides God and ourselves, how known, 499; earliest apperceptions of, furnish earliest experiences, 499 ; of God, the Lockian, Anselmic, and Cartesian arguments for, 499-505
Experience, twofold, 4 ; not sole source of truth, 11 ; not everything in physics, 18; never assures of per- fect universality, 22 ; never assures of necessity, 22 ; determines to thoughts but does not furnish ideas, 110 ; its first truth, 501 ; not a good thing to judge by, 582.
Extension, what? 152, 160, 103, 220 ; different from matter, 155 ; not nec- essary to existence, 430. [129. Extensions, are there two? 127, 128,
External causes of sensation, reality of, 511, 512 ; if a dream, yet suitable to circumstances and hence satis- factory, 512 ; have an assurance of, as certain as pleasure or pain, 512.
his view of movement of sun, 613. Fabritius, or Fabricius, M., 21, 102. Factum, in, the action, 486. Faculty, more than the possession of ability without using it, 80 ; requires not merely object hut disposition towards object before it will act, SO ; not full explanation of, mind's easy consent to certain truths, 81 ; naked, does not exist, 110, 143, 174, 204, 428. Faculties, have disposition and ten- dency to action, 110 ; how they act, 179 ; secondary, more than relations, 185 ; naked, little goblins as it were, 431 ; their limits and sphere, 525 ; lessons to be drawn thence, 525. Fairies, how their transformations
would be regarded, 244, 245. Faith, the analysis of, 555; what? 580, 583; grounded on reason, 580, 582; and reason, their distinctive limits, 583; proper matters of , 084 ; requires internal grace of Holy Spirit, 585; does not refuse a knowledge of reasons, 585; cannot receive what subverts all belief, 587; implicit, Bellarmine on, 621; involves a rea- sonable docility, 621. False judgment, in allowing the "dis- tance" of a pleasure or pain to determine its value, 209; depends on limited capacity of mind, 210; by which the absent is annihilated, 210; distinguished from bad taste, 210 ; as to the greatness or certainty of consequences, 212; in hazarding a greater good for a less, 213 ; causes of, 214; the reckoning required to escape, 214, 215 ; in accepting first pleasure which comes to hand, 216 ; to expose oneself to a possible dan- ger in next life, 217. Falsehood, its nature, 452. Family names, 258. Fanatic, 33, 596.
Feuille morte, an idea of the color, how conveyed to peasant, 391.
Figure, what? 151, 160; scarcely a simple mode, 152 ; does not pass de subjecto in siibjectum, 240 ; knowl- edge of, does not depend on " imagi- nation," 273.
Figures, in logic, 560 ; principal one, 407 ; less principal ones, 407 ; in- direct or fourth, 407.
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Fire, not known by Marian Islanders, 104; its intimate nature more than probable, 549, 552.
Form, of Man, not enough to consti- tute man, 244; of words, what? 304, 305 ; arguments in, what ? 559.
Forms, substantial, term inaptly em- ployed by scholastics, 347, 380 ; Des- cartes on, 348.
" Forty-Seventh" proposition, its dem- onstration, how dependent on formal logic, 565.
Frauds, pious, sometimes more eifec- tive than truth badly managed, 198 ; to be avoided, 606.
Free, when a man is, 179; a man awake is not, as to thinking, 181 ; is, as to transference of his thoughts, 181 ; man is not, in certain circum- stances to certain ideas, 181 ; and voluntary, term illustrated, 181 ; act, in, what sense necessary, 183 ; beings do not act indeterminately, 183.
Freedom, term ambiguous, 179; of right, 179; of fact, 179; in its gen- eral sense, 179; in its particular sense, 179 ; why a ball in motion not an instance of, 180 ; properly cannot belong to will, 184; of equilibrium impossible, 184 ; what understood by term, 184 ; without understanding, of no use, 216.
Freedom of Will, opposed to internal restraint, 179; opposed to restraint of necessity, 179 ; what it consists in, 180, 202; not placed in a perfect indifference or equilibrium, 203, 204 ; does not throw off yoke of reason, 206; consistent with determination of will, 206 ; founded in real happi- ness, 206.
Future life, how most men regard it, 196; its influence on choice, 208; grounds on which wicked deem it impossible, 217 ; favorable conject- ures concerning, 217 ; certitude of, 218 ; definition of, 246 ; its influence on practice of virtue, 495, 496.
Galileo, on great antiquity of sun, 237 ; his condemnation considered, 613.
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General notions, 43 ; origin of, 71 ; signs used by men deprived of speech, 145; truths (propositions.
maxims), their universality not proved by examples, i:j; do not come to us from tlie senses, 70 ; we find them, do not form them, 70, 325 ; the senses give us occasion to perceive them, 70; recognized as soon as heard, 73 ; employed , though not distinctly, in thought, 73; as little in thought in reasoning as muscles in thought in walking, 74 ; not easily represented distinctly, 74 ; why not, though innate, most vivid in minds of children, idiots, and savages? 85; their usefulness, 307 ; how their truths may be deter- mined, ^4 ; can they be applied to substances? 454^456.
Genii, always joined to body, 52, 334 ; their powers of perception, 228 ; their alleged employment in future ages, 551; are they animals more perfect than we ? 574 ; there is much they do not know, 574 ; are in infi- nite gradation, 575.
Genus, physical and logical distin- guished, 58 ; logical may exist be- tween heterogeneous things, 58 ; its genealogy, 59 ; definition of, in what case not provisional but per- fected, 45G, 457.
Genus, and species, how they origi- nate, 310; classification iuto, too little esteemed, 311 ; and difference, interchangeable, 313.
Geometry, employs pure reason, 22; declines experience, 22 ; its proposi- tions innate, 7G ; in us virtually, 78 ; can be prosecuted apart from sight or touch, 78; mind awakened to by touch, 78 ; its demonstrations would be disputed if, like ethics, it op- posed our passions, 1)3 ; no exact cat- alogue of its axioms, 95; can be learned by blind and paralytic, 139 ; built on general axioms, 473; of Greeks, 523 ; of Egyptians, 523 ; of Chinese, 523 ; if follow senses in, fall into error, 523 ; asymptotes in, 523 ; permits usaglimpseof eternal truth, 523; ancient, the system described, 524.
Gerhardt, his introduction to the Souveaux Essuis, 3-12; his esti- mate of Leibnitz's Meditatlones de C'ogitatlone,Veritate et Ideis, 3.
Gerontophony, 222 ; name of, if be- stowed, would not give a new idea, 222.
God, apparent absence of idea of, means only absence of occasion to awaken it, 21 ; inclination to idea of, from nature of soul, 72 ; penetra- tion of space possible to, 83 ; his existence binds us to observance of most moral precepts, 94 ; idea of, innate, 94, 234, 493, 499; are there nations which have no idea of? Fabricius's denial, 102, 103; Locke quoted on idea of, 103, 104 ; Locke, in his description of the idea of, approaches innate truths, 104 ; is actus ptirus, 113 ; the ground of eternal truths, 153; the place of things, 153 ; not extended, 159 ; im- mensity of, 159 ; by his essence, source of possibilities, 159 ; by his will, source of actualities, 159; the principle of beings, 163; chooses freely, yet is determined in choice, 183; continually produces, 230; fills the universe, 230 ; in social connec- tion with us, 247 ; and created spirits, difference between, 332 ; extra- vel supra-mundana intelligentia, 382; the supreme substance, 430 ; his pure and universal act essential to all changes in matter, 430 ; his existence demonstrable, 469, 499, 500; wit- ness to bis existence, in our con- stitution, 499; impressions on the soul which indicate, 499 ; evidence of his existence, according to Locke, equals mathematical demonstra- tions, 499 ; evidence of existence of, arises from reflection on ourselves and our own indubitable existence, 500.
God, existence of, Anselmic argument for, misunderstood by scholastics, 502-504 ; imperfect but not a paralo-
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gism, 504; morally demonstrable, 50i ; Descartes' argument for, Irom " idea ot Him in the soul," 504, 505 ; his argument £or, involves an un- proved assumption : that we have the " idea," and that it comes Irom the original, 505 ; proved by Pre-estab- lished Harmony, 505 ; nearly all ar- guments to prove, good, but must be perfected, 505.
God, as Thinking Being, cannot be material, since infinite and eternal, '508; absurd if all matter thinks, 608; absurd if part of matter thinks, 508 ; cannot be a mass of unthinking matter, 509; cannot be matter in motion, 509; cannot he matter at rest, 509; possible to attain a con- ception of how, made matter, 509 ; how he gives existence to spirit is more difficult to understand, 509; his existence only has a necessary connection with ours*, 511.
Gold, result of its artificial production if possible, 340; if a body had all the qualities of, without malleability, what then? 357; on the determina- tion of its inner constitution, 393.
"Gold, all, is fixed" is an identical proposition, 340; is it intelligible? 340 ; not known by agreement or dis- agreement of ideas, 460 ; can we cer- tainly Imow this for a truth, and why? 460, 461.
Goropius, Becanus, his ridiculous ety- mologies, 303; claims that German can contest honor of being primitive language with Hebrew, 303.
Good, what, 167,200, 202; its division, 167 ; when is one in possession of a, 172 ; how it may become an evil, 202 ; how to be utilized, 207 ; moral, 260; moral, not an arbitrary institu- tion, 261 ; moral, conformed to nature or reason, 261; moral, founded in God's rule of reason, 261 ; moral, not
Government, its claim on the absolute freedom of its citizens, 433.
Gratitude, an act of justice, 497; foundation of ^c(io ingrati, 497.
Greeks, as geometers, 22 ; their admi- rable style in mathematical compo- sition, 416.
Gretser, his "Analysis of Faith," 618; believes that a. new article of faith may be made through continuous presence of the Spirit, 618.
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" Ground, the, is everywhere the same," a fundamental principle, 575.
Habitus inteUectuales,on these depend the sects in philosophy, 30 ; formed through Association of Ideas, .30, 31.
Happiness, never consists in complete possession, 194 ; and joy, 195 ; is op- posite extreme to misery, 200 ; is the utmost pleasure of which we are capable, 200; its lowest degree, 'IW; is lasting pleasure, 200, 207; in- volves progression, 200, 201; un- equal in different persons, 200, 201; a "road through pleasures," 200; reason will carry to, 200; shortest way to, may not be best, 201 ; search after, man's perfection, 206; dis- tinction between real and imaginary, 206 ; requires not so much knowledge
as good will, 215 ; within reach of idiot, 210. Hardness, what ? 125 ; conceived by reason, 126 ; terms preferred to that of, 126. Hardy, Leibnitz's discussion with, 465 ; believed the demonstration of Serenus paralogistio, 465 ; com- mended by Descartes, 466. Harlequin's stripping, an illustration
from, .362 ; in moon, 551. Harmony, Pre-established, 11, 66, 334,
430, 553. Hatred, what ? 167, 173. Health, its neglect commented on, 610. Heap of tliirty-six stones, illustration
from, 269. Heat, relative to suitable organs, 133, 134 ; why sensation of, varies, 134 ; wrongly said not to be in sun, 134, 135. Heathen, salvation of, 594, 595; ac- cording to Romish doctors, 594. Hebrew particle, a, has fifty significa- tions, 365. Heliogabalus, if his soul is in the hog,
what is the hog? 241. Hell fire burns up souls ? 428, 429. Helmout, Van, 67. Helmstadt, 581. Herbert, Loi'd, his catalogue of innate
principles, 95. Hercules, as the figure of, in rude mar- ble outlined by veius, so idea in mind, 3, 46 ; known by gait, 357. Herlinus, editor of Euclid, 404. Herodotus, his one-eyed nation, 389 ; disagrees with Ctesias, 5-15; accords with Old Testament, 547. Herostratus, a hero with some, 536. Hippocrates, the physician, 48, 476;
the geometer, 527. Historlca, Defide, of jurisconsults, 545. Historical doubts, 545. History, satire in, .542; romance to be expelled from, 542; details in, un- certain, .543; battles of, imperfectly described, 543 ; writers of, posterior to events they describe, worthy of attention, 544 ; its value, 544, 545 ; the private, of a people, when of much value, ,545 ; the fabulous in
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history, 546 ; when stories of differ- ent and far-separated people agree, it is a sign of truth in them, 540; value of medals, inscrii^tions, etc., in, 547 ; of China much to be de- sired, 547 ; principal uses of, 547 ; of clothing, valuable, 547; as a diver- sion, allowable, 548; ought to be instructive, 548.
Hobbes, 450 ; writes against mathema- ticians, 93 ; afraid of ghosts, 283.
Homicide, 385; as murder, 385; as manslaughter, 385; chance-medley, 385.
Horses, Welsh and Flemish, 237 ; with genealogical trees, 259.
Horseshoe, iron, when converted by a certain spring into copper, changes as individual, 240.
"Houses, dwellers in small," we can- not expect much search after truth among, 008, 609.
Huygeus, 150 ; gives up ' vacuum,' 16; on logic in mathematics, 18; on planetary men, 343; "De Alea," 5.39; his " Cosmotheoros," 550; his view regarding other planets, 550; his use of analogy, 550.
Hypothesis, how proved, 520, 521 ; must be combined with experimen- tation, 526; may lead to new dis- coveries, 526 ; is a help to memory, 526; must not be hastily framed, 520; greatly shortens the road to disco\ery, .526; physical, cannot be
demonstrated, 565 ; zeal for, what? 613; variable, 613; source of love for, 614.
eron proteron {le rebours), not arguing in a circle, 409.
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"I think, therefore I am," not an axiom, 469 ; a truth of fact, 409 ; does not prove existence by thought, 469.
"I" and "existence" only God un- derstands how they are united, 469.
Idese admquatm, what? 17, 278; pro- prise, 3 ; what ? 3 ; necessity of hav- ing, 3 ; how in mind, 3.
Idea and image, confounded by Locke, 273 ; in a chiliagon, former possible but not latter, 273 ; how they differ, 274.
Ideas, when true and real, 14; the origin of, not preliminary in philoso- phy, 15 ; come from within the soul, 15 ; when doubtful, 15 ; when chi- merical, 15 ; their possibility proved a priori, 15 ; their possibility proved o posteriori, 15 ; primitive or deriva- tive, 21; in what sense both sorts in us, 21; defined, 21, 109; in what sense can subsist unperceived, 21 ; innate, what? 22; and truths, how related, 22 ; Locke's two sources for, 23; implanted, of Plato, 38; if they come from without, then we should be outside ourselves, 76; pure, op- posed to ' phantoms ' of sense, 78 ; which do not come from sense, ad- mitted by Locke, 82 ; of sense con- fused, as also the truths founded on them, 82 ; of intellect are distinct, as are also the truths founded on them, 82; difficulties in, depend on amount of attention required, 82; in mind as habitudes, aptitudes, dispositions.
105; distinct, represent God, 109; confused, tlie universe, 109; imme- diate, internal objects of thought, 109; not forms of thought, 109; their perception, not themselves, come through sensation and experi- ence, 111; pure and distinct, inde- pendent of the senses, 119; distin- guished from thoughts, 119 ; which come to us by one sense only, 121, 122 ; supposed to come to us by dif- ferent senses enumerated, 129 ; sup- posed to come by sensation and reflection enumerated, 130; their simplicity disputed, 130 ; their cause : are they arbitrary, or have they an expressive resemblance ? 133 ; and the secondary qualities which pro- duce them, their relations discussed, 133; resemble both primary and secondary qualities, 133 ; resemble motions which cause them, 1.34 ; from sensations often unconsciously al- tered by mental judgment, 136 ; are modes of thought, 143 ; internal ob- jects, 143; do not cease when not matters of consciousness, 143 ; and ' bodily movements ' * correspond,' 181 ; and ' movements,' there is an order and connection in, 181 ; or notions, three degrees of, 217 ; ob- jects of, proposed classification of, 221 ; simple, those most modified, 223; collective, of substances, 234; often applied by Locke to the objec- tive realities which the ideas repre- sent, 237; clearness and obscurity of, 265; when distinct, 266, 267; when confused, 267; confusion in, when blamable, 267 ; confusion of, sometimes lies in the composition, 269 ; sometimes in the bad use of names, 269; sometimes in defective analysis, 269; avoided to some ex- tent by precision in names, 271 ; real, 275; fantastical, 275; not necessarily conformed to their foun- dations in nature, 275; the erro- neous oi)inion regarding, that God has arbitrarily assigned them to mark qualities, 276 ; association of, 281; privative, why should there
not be? 280; natural order of, 289; same for all intelligences, 289 ; sub- stances and modes represented by, 306; of substances and sensible qualities more fixed, 306 ; reflective, enter into those of things, 306 ; how they become general, 307; ab- stract, may be attributed to one another, 313, 497 ; simple, and of sub- stance, their reality not necessary, 318 ; God has, and can communicate them before creating their objects, 318; cannot demonstrate that ob- jects of, are without iis, 319 ; simple, can have real definition, 320 ; exj^ress only possibilities, 325; are they arbi- trary ? 325 ; are in God eternally, 325 ; are in us before thought, 323 ; not to be taken as actual thoughts of men, 325, 326 ; influence of names on, 328 ; physical, wdiat regulates their combination, 353, 354; generic, do not follow models set in nature, 355 ; agreement or disagreement of, four kinds according to Locke, 400; that of identity or diversity, 400; that of relation, 400; that of coexistence, 400 ; that of real ex- istence, 400; Locke's four kinds reduced to two, 401; that of com- parison, 400, 401 ; that of concur- rence, 401 ; concurrence includes coexistence and existence, 401 ; want of, 439; of substances have neces- sary conformity to eternal arche- type, 446 ; what meant when said to be true or false? 452; general, may be broken up ecthetically into par- ticular propositions, 464, 465 ; super- fluous expressions of, 483 ; we may not have real, yet know what we are saying, 505 ; may be in us not consciously, but availably, B05; do not prove existence, 511 ; distinct, our knowledge of, defective, 570; their multitude perplexing, 570 ; not enough for reasoning, 570 ; confused, many lacking to men, 570; are ' images ' or ' impressions,' 570 ; give rise to instincts, 570. Ideas, complex, of three kinds, 5 ; when clear, 266; their obscurity
rests on more than names, 268; may rest on presence in them of ideas too few or too confused, 268; may be clear and yet obscure, 272 ; something volitional in formation of, 276 ; how to avoid mistakes in form- ing, 276; of substance, when real, 277 ; of substance, when fantastical, 277 ; are not entirely without arche- type, 280; the combination of, not wholly voluntary, 280 ; of a triangle give a perfect idea, 280 ; which enter into courage, 280; can they be com- posed of different simple ideas in different minds, 313 ; can they be regarded as arbitrary in formation, 325, 326 ; are they made by mind or have they archetypes in eternal pos- sibility of things, 446.
Ideas, innate, what? 4, 21 ; denied by Locke, 4 ; at foundation of meta- physics and ethics, 11 ; the propo- sitions of arithmetic and geometry are, 76.
Ideas, primitive, what? 15; distin- guished, 21; their reduction, 220; some susceptible of further reduc- tion, 220 ; how they may be ar- ranged, 220.
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Ideas, real : not necessarily conformed to their foundations in nature, 275; when possible, 275 ; simple ideas are, 275 ; when complete, 278 ; when incomplete, 278 ; simple complete, 278 ; adequate and inadequate, 278, 279; imperfect, give rise to many and at present independent defini- tions, 279 ; of geometry, give per- fect ideas, 279.
Ideas, simple, 4; rudiments of knowl- edge, 119; which come to us by one sense, 121 ; which come to us by different senses, 129 ; those most modified, 223; when clear, 265, 266; all real, 275 ; mind passive in regard to, 276; mind active in separating them for consideration, 276; simple only as regards us, 322 ; have little subordination in line of predication because of our ignorance, 323; only
in appearance, 323; our uncertainty as to their incompatibility, 446.
Ideutical, propositions, not to be despised, 18; maxim, the general, 83; propositiojis employed in logic, 40(1; aiiirmations, their use exhib- ited in logical conversion, 409.
Identity, axiom of, a first principle, 13, 100; did it persist under the forms of Euphorbus, the cock an^ Pythag- oras, in which forms the soul of Pythagoras had been ? 21, 100 ; not dependent on memory, 114 ; depends on fact that future in each substance is united to past, 115 ; or Diversity, what is it ? 238 ; Locke's definition of, 240; organization by itself not enough for, 240 : configuration by itself not enough for, 240; the monad essential to, 240; not in bodies, 240 ; but in substance, 241 ; in plants and animals it is depend- ent on souls 241 ; depends on soul or spirit which constitutes the Ego in thinking beings, 241, 242; depends on vital union of body with soul, 241 ; not on fluent body, 242 ; not upon certain atoms, 242 ; maintained only by conservation of same soul, 242 ; is it affected by metempsychosis of Pythagoras? 243; depends on memory, 243; physical and real, 243, 246; moral and personal, 243, 245 ; founded on consciousness, 245 ; something more than a mere pres- ervation of, needful to be called " man," 245 ; apparent, to be distin- guished from real, 246; moral, con- stitutes a person capable of rewards or punishments, 246; apparent im- plies real, 246 ; does not depend on unbroken memories, 246, 247 ; pre- served by a middle bond of con- sciousness, 246; personal, proved with utmost certainty by present reflection, 247 ; personal, proved for ordinary purposes by memory dur- ing interval, or testimony of others, 247; personal, absolutely dependent on real identity, 247 ; personal, not solely dependent on consciousness, 247; personal, rests on phenomenon
of self, 247; physical, rests on self, 247 ; can a breach of, occur in con- sciousness of same immaterial sub- stance '? 248 ; real, depends on bond of perceptions, 250; moral, depends on bond of apperceptions, 250.
Idiots, their defects, 146; compared with madmen, 146; compared with stupid persons, 146 ; imaginative and well read, arrogate inspiration, 599.
Idol, the, of the day, always the great- est saint of paradise, '211.
Ignorance, falsely praised by some, 85 ; not always alfected, 214 ; a cause of false judgment, 214; a knowledge of, desirable, 439; its three principal causes, 439 ; a first cause of, want of ideas, 439 ; a sec- ond cause of, inability to discover connection between ideas, 439; a third cause of, we do not follow the ideas we have, 441 ; a despair of dis- tinct explanation favors continuance of, 442 ; bad use of terms has helped to maintain, 443 ; how a sin, 615.
Image, and idea, how they differ, 274 ; clear, may consist with a confused idea, 274.
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Images, what? 182; come to us, 182; not controllable, 182 ; distinguished from exact ideas, 182; may arrest 182.
Imagination, 144, 145; not needful to number or figure, 273.
Immortality, not a miraculous grace from God, 53; of human soul dis- tinguished from incessability of ani- mal soul, 245 ; of human soul, 245, 246.
Impulsions between parts of matter, differing views of, 54, 55.
Inclinations or propensions, how formed, 201; various kinds, 201; originate in soul, 202 ; beginning of desire, 202 ; combated by contrary incliuatious, 203 ; combated by oc- cupations of another nature, 203.
Index, an, in geometry, 625; its plan, 625; its use, 625; to science as a whole, 625 ; to science as a whole might be systematic, 625 ; to science as a whole might be alphabetic, 625.
Indian, philosopher, his theory of how the earth is supported, 226, 227.
Indices, ad torturam, 539 ; ad terren- dum, 539; ad capturam, 539; ad inquirendum, 539.
Indifference of will not essential to freedom of will, 203, 204 ; not possi- ble, 171, 204 ; whence notion of, 205 ; an absolute, an imperfection, 204, 205 ; the alleged, only apparent, 205 ; dependent on a small prevalence, 205 ; is really only a capability of being determined by least sensible subjects, 205. t '
Individual, precise idea of, difficult to discern, 310; absence of precise idea of, shown in deception by persona- tion, 310; mathematical, 335, 336; physical, 3.36.
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Individuals, knowledge of, impossible, 309; something essential to, 331; of one species never alike, 332.
Individual (proper) names; usually given to ideas of substances, 361 ; given occasionally to an accident, 361.
Infants, why regarded as men, 314, 342, 350, 448 ; damnation of, held by
Infinite, the, according to Locke, 12 ; according to Leibnitz, 12; as posi- tive, 17; as composite, denied, 17; not applicable to a whole, 154, 162, 163, 164 ; is it a mode or quantity ? 161 ; the number of things is, 161 ; a, number never is, 161, 163 ; syn- categorematic, what ? 161 ; exists only in the absolute, 162 ; idea of, how applied to God, 162; not neces- sarily suggested by magnitude, 162 ; not a modification, 162 ; arises from consideration of similarity or the same ratio, 162 ; completion of idea of, comes from ourselves, 163 ; source of notion, 163, 164; in in- tention, 163; in extension, 163; can only be thought into original quali- ties, 163; space, no idea of, 163; duration, in what sense a positive idea of, possible, 164; divisibility, gives no image, but an idea, 234, 275.
Infinitesimal, parts used only by ge- ometers 163 ; analysis (calculus) unites geometry with physics, 440; discovered by Leibnitz, 573 ; relieves imagination, 574; is superior to ge- ometry of Descartes, 574.
"Injustice, there is none where there is no property," discussed, 433.
Innate ideas, truths, principles, max- ims, not to be used as a cloak for idleness, 13, 72, 99; perceived less easily than acquired or recollected, 20 ; difficulty in their perceptions does not prove their non-existence, 20 ; occasions cause them to be seen, do not bring them into being, 20; defined, 21, 22, 74; not proved en- tirely by universal consent, 23, 71 ; not proved by approval on presenta- tion, 23; sensations reminders of, 38 ; proof of, on internal grounds, 38; Locke repudiates, 38; none, 65; not needed, 70 ; why Locke opposed them, 71 ; often prejudices, 71 ; not
alone those confusedly known by iustiuot, 74 ; truths are, yet wc learn them, 75; often suppressed as pre- mise in enthymeme, 77 ; external " doctrine " stirs them up, 77 ; a con- sent among men sufficiently general an " indication," not a demoustra- tiou of, 77 ; their certitude comes from what is in us, 77 ; are employed without express consideration, 77 ; if not known, do not cease to be innate, 77 ; recognized as soon as heard, 77 ; at bottom kno'mi by all, 77 ; senses n<it sufficient to show their necessity, 81 ; give the occasion and attention required for their discovery, 81 ; contain some of which we have not thought and some of which we will never think, 8i; appear through attention, 85 ; some, are not part of natural light, SO; derivative truths are, 88; formed by insight and in- stinct, 88. Innate, practical principles, how ad- mitted by Locke, 87 ; principles and innate truths distinguished, 88 ; prin- ciples, some moral rules are not, and yet are innate truths, 88; compre- hend instinct, and natural light, 88, 92 ; distinguished from natural light as genus from species, 02 ; that men violate the limits of justice no proof that they are not, 32, 93; truth, not known always and by all, 93; viola- tions of moral law, do not disprove that it is, 93 ; ideas, are not at iirst known clearly and distinctly as such, 94; require attention and method, 94; all not indubitably evident at iirst, 94; can be asserted only of necessary truths and instincts, 95 ; influence of education on, 98; may be obscured but not effaced, 98. Innate truths, in what sense difficult and profound sciences are, 76; dis- tinguish us from beasts, 77 ; can both be known and also found by mind, 80; principles and innate truths distinguished, 88; idea of God among, 94; idea of future life among, 94; doctrine of, may lead to assumption of infallibility, 96 ; uni-
versal consent to, not principal but confirniatory proof, 9(i ; can they be effjiced by education or custom? OS; why not more lustrous in children and illiterates than in adults and literati? 98; may be obscured but not effaced, 98; not creatures of prejudice, 98; reduce to first prin- ciples, 99; " it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be ; " is this among? 100; 'impossibility' and 'idenlily' among, 100; 'being,' 'possibility, and 'identity' among, 100; ' whole is greater than its part,' Lock*! denies its place among, 102 ; ' God sh(uild be worshipped ' among, 102; idea of virtue among, 104 ; are they in mind as memories? 105 ; deiined, 105; may lead to laziness, 107; unravelled by discernment, 143.
Insensibilia corpora, 3; ingredientia perceptiomwi eoiifiisai'uin, 3.
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Insensible perception, basis of relation between sensible qualities, 50.
Instinct, in ethics, 80 ; not always practical, 87; its principles become conclusions of natural light, 88 ; its principles proved by reason, 88; {le naturel) inclines custom to good side, 90 ; establishes tradition of ex- istence of God, 90; gives affectionate feeling between members of species, 00, 91 ; what ? 391 ; even in man , 391 .
Instincts, sometimes hard to distin- guish from customs, 96; their rea- son unknown, 99; reasons of, to be sought, 107.
Intuition, a certain knowledge by, 404 ; primitive truths known by, 404.
Invenzione la piu vaga, employed in the spiritual world, 335.
Invisible movement, 112. Involuntary, defined, 177. lo ti vedo, addressed by Italian to gal- lows, 92. Irish, 2<.)ti. Isogon is in rectangle, 368.
of pleasure or pain, 211. Judgment, what? 143; distinguished
of, 214; Day of, 254. Jure suo, qui utitur, nemini facit in-
492; juramenta of, 538. Jus accresceudi, 434. Juvenal quoted, 91.
Knowledge, our present, best, 227, 228 ; can go on to infinite, 228 ; of body, a perfect, perhaps possible, 228 ; em- pirical, how useful, 273; of truth, what? 397, 400; a particular signifi- cation of, 397 ; a general significa- tion of, 397, 398 ; confused perception in empirical, 400; of hypothetical truths, ideas in, 400; of truth, its content, 400, 401 ; as actual and habitual, 401; habitual, its employ- ment and improvement, 401, 402; two sorts of, suggested, 402; intui- tive, 404, 410 ; demonstrative, what? 411; opinion, perhaps not, 417; sen- sitive, 417, 419; sensitive, its certi- tude, 420; certain, 420; probable, 420 ; clearness of, related to clear- ness of ideas, 423 ; extent of, 423 ; not always iutuiti ve, 423 ; not always demonstrative, 423; sensitive, lim- ited, 423; sensitive, more limited than ideas, 423 ; sensitive, can be ex- tended, 423, 424 ; in confused ideas, 424 ; its limits presented, 432 ; of real existence, 439 ; difficulties in the way of, 439, 440; of bodies and spirits, 441; have ideas for, 441; lack facts for, 441 ; lack acuteness of senses
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for, 441 ; though concerned entirely with ideas may have certainty, 445 ; certainty of, suggested criteria of, 445; mathematical, real though founded on ideas, 446; is of gen- eral or particular truths, 452; of general truths best conceived by help of words, 452; certainty of, 454 ; when self-evident, 464 ; order of, 469; particular, or of facts dis- tinguished from universal and neces- sary, 470 ; appellations of, possibility of their extension, 513; commences in particular propositions? 517 ; em- ployment of mnemonic maxims in, 517; mnemonic maxims not formed by induction, 518 ; what conduces to the extension of, .527 ; mediate ideas, their place in, 527; neither wholly necessary, nor wholly voluntary, 528; divine, intuitive, 574; angelic and beatified, 574.
Language, Locke on, 6 ; tropical use of, must be guarded, 271, 272 ; origi- nates in desire of being understood, 287 ; serves in reasoning, 287 ; of tones, 287 ; place of general terms in, 288; study of, reveals, not the origin of ideas, but the history of their discovery, 289; primitive root of, 297; German likely the primi- tive? 298.
Languages, have altered, 294; have common roots, 297; Keltic, Latin, and Greek, have common origin, 297 ; a primitive element in all, 298; show the origin and migration of nations, 303, 304 ; best mirrors of human mind, 368; practical but not precise, 370; same terms in, may
convey different ideas, 371 ; of world will finally be reduced to grammar and dictionary, 372; will be better known with increase of knowledge of mind, 372.
Law, civil, 2C2; of reputation, improp- erly so called, 202 ; described, 2(>i ; its reformation needed, 2(>4, 265 ; a pre- cept of wisdom or of the science of happiness, 3'.ll.
Legislator, not implied in all natural rewards and punishments, 94.
Leibnitz, Iris sketch of Locke's Essay in " Monatliche Auszug," 7; hints at a more complete reply, 7 ; delays therein, 8; was to be in form of dialogue, 9 ; unfinished, 9 ; his esti- mate of Locke's Essay, 10, 13 ; turns to Theodieee, 10 ; Raspe publishes reply, 10; differs from Locke as Plato from Aristotle, 10 ; thinks soul not a " tabula rasa," but that it has principles, 11 ; truth has other foundations than experience, 11 ; credits Locke with an approach to his "siews, 11, 45; regards bodies as always in motion, 11; on axioms, 12 ; on logic, 12; on nominal and real being, 12; on the Infinite, 12; his explanation of Locke's aversion to the doctrine that principles are born with us, 13 ; his first principles, 13 ; differs from Locke on the soul ever thinking, 16; how he differentiates his system from that of Locke, 42 ; on German philology, 304.
Leibnitz's system, gives a new aspect to interior of things, 66; unites different schools, 66; explains union of soul and body, 66; gives true principle of things, 66 ; is simple, 66 ; is uniform, 66 ; explains laws of nature, 66; how characterized, 68.
Length, an idea of determinate, not in mind, 149, 150; preserved only by real measures, 150; pyramid to serve as standard, 150 ; pendulum measures, 150.
Liars who contradict themselves uni- versally obnoxious, 23, 77.
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Life, a good one preferable to a bad, apart from eternal felicity, 217 ; Epicurean doctrine, even apart from felicity, not most reasonable, 217; indefinite ideas of, 388; notion of, is accompanied by perception in the soul, 388 ; of man, that it should be a dream, not impossible meta- physically, but rationally, 422 ; even if a dream, does not deceive, since its phenomena are in reliable series, 422.
Light, why referred to fire, 133 ; rel- ative to suitable organs, 1.33; like sugar, 140 ; Aristotle's definition of, 321.
Light, internal, what ? 22, 599 ; opposed by perceptions of sense, 98 ; is source of science, law, and morals, 98; its struggle with perception of sense described in Scripture and ancient and modern philosophers, 98; dulled by sense and custom, 98; — natural, 74.
Locke, John, his Essay concerning human understanding, 4; denies in- nate ideas, 4 ; declines reply to Leib-
nitz's criticism on his Essay, 6 ; on axioms, 12 ; on logic, 12 ; on the Infinite, 12 ; his change ol view on Newton's theory of gravitation, 12; both assayer and transmuter, 19 ; in his view ol reflection relaxes liis doc- trine about innate ideas, 45; denies anything virtual in us, 411; believes that mind does not always think, 47 ; his antagonism to innate princi- ples explained, 71.
Logic, its fruitfulness, 12; valuable, 18 ; lull of truths which can only be proved by innate principles, 44 ; a natural, 88; has it helped to main- tain the obscurity ol words, 378 ; ignorance of, accounts for inaccurate use of terms, 379 ; as much a demon- strative science as mathematics, 414 ; of geometers but a part of general, 414 ; of probabilities suggested, 541 ; chains of reasoning in, whence their complexity, 561 ; laws of, xjrinciples of good sense reduced to writing, 562 ; a severe, not necessarily scho- lastic, needed in practical delibera- tions, 563 ; because men reason without artificial, does not prove its inutility, 563 ; its scholastic forms inconvenient, 564 ; have its rules entire sway in probable questions? 565, 566; of the probable. Cardan on, 566; a sublime, suggested, to which common is but as alphabet, 566 ; its possible improvement, 566 ; Hooker upon its improvement, 566 ; as a universal mathematics, 569 ; in what particulars reason needs it, 570; not needed in intuitive knowl- edge, 574 ; what it comprises, 621 ; its contents according to the ancients, 622 ; includes a?*/e.s dlcendi, 622 ; its boundaries indefinite, 622 ; discur- sive, 623; medicinal, 624.
term, 168 ; of complacency, 108 ; of benevolence, 108 ; disinterested, 168.
Lune, its quadrature by Hippocrates, 527 ; axiom employed in its quadra- ture, 527.
Mais, its equivalents in German, 366; its derivation, 367 ; its elliptic use, 368.
Man , should we call an irrational creat- ure in human form a ? 244 ; should we call a parrot discoursing philosophi- cally a ? 244 ; requires not merely rea- soning soul, but something of figure and constitution of body, 245 ; can- not be a machine, 246 ; a social being, 285 ; his speech the instrument and bond of society, 285 ; how the name is arrived at, 310; what creatures may be so called, 342; definition of, at once real and nominal, 342; no rational animal has yet been found with a body differing much from that of, 351 ; definitions of, Aris- totle's, 384 ; definitions of, Plato's, 384; a working definition of, 391,392; the most stupid, more rational than the most spiritual beast, 552, 553 ; ad- vantage of his position on the globe, 575.
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Manual arts, their principles should be taught by scholars, 628.
Marble, a, veined block nI, the Illus- tration of, 4(j, 76, 82, 8-1; block of, with or without veins, 4ii.
Maridtte, M., an experiment of, 121; on tlie color blue, 337.
Martin Corneille, his attempts to rec- oncile philosiipliy and religion, 581.
Mathematics, paralogisms of, faults of form, 18; some propositions demon- strated outside of, 272, 414 ; not the only science capable of demonstra- tion, 414 ; why it has become so per- fectly demonstrative, 414.
Matter, how regarded by Locke, 11, 16; how regarded by Leibnitz, 11, 10 ; "medley of effects of surrounding infinite," 51 ; is not rigid, 54 ; can it think? 56, 59, 61, 62, 427; contro- versy with Bishop of Worcester regarding, 56 ; distinct from exten- sion, 155 ; secondary, 231 ; primary, possesses a perfect fluidity, 231 ; its indivisibility, a perplexed notion, 234; distinct from body, 38*: are discussions concerning, as materia prima futile ? 383 ; can it think, 427; primary, purely passive, and therefore incomplete, 42-S ; primary, cannot produce perception, sensa- tion, reason, 428 ; secondary, a complete being, 428 ; secondary, a real mass, 428 ; secondary, supposes real unities, 428 ; secondary, its unities percipient, 428 ; secondary, constitutes an intelligible world of substances, 428; secondary, when God gives it organs for rational ex- pression He gives it immaterial thinking substances, 428; second- ary, substances of, have within them correspondence or harmony, 428 ; secondary, primitive powers of, 3f
are substances themselves, 428 ; sec- ondary, derivative powers of, are modes of being, 428 ; now hypotlie- sis (if, attributes to soul and liody only the modilications we experi- ence in ourselves and them, 430; new hypotliesis of, gives to our ideas of matter greater regularity and connection, 430; presents diffi- culty only to those wlio must im- agine what is only intelligible, 430; changes in, dependent on reasons incapable of arising from extension and natures purely passive, 430 ; changes in, cannot arise even from particular and inferior active na- tures without the pure and univer- sal act of the superior substance, 430 ; not unintelligible, but in parts not clear because of our confused perceptions, which contain the infi- nite, and are the detailed expression of what occurs in bodies, 431; can- not produce pleasure or pain, 431 ; if susceptible of thouglit, may create, 501 ; if first eternal thinking being, means an infinite number of thinli- ing beings, 506 ; cannot give rise to perceptions, 507 ; not a monad or unity, 507; a, mass of an infinite number of beings, 507 ; each being of, is material or immaterial, 507 ; has a General and Superior Cause, 507; under Pre-established Harmony, 507 ; all is, 518.
Maxims or Axioms, on what their sell- evidence rests, 462 ; are they evident ex terminis, 462 ; demonstrated by geometers, 4f)2; when to be assumed, 464 ; their use, 473, 474 ; their intro- duction into public disputations, 477, 478, 479; formed through an instinct, 481 ; bad use of, 482 ; help- ful to knowledge, 484, not to be blamed for improper use of terms, 484 ; of special use in long processes of reasoning, 485 ; how formed, 485 ; use in mathematics, 485; use in jurisprudence, 480; what included under, 486 ; fundamental, 487 ; some-
times employed out of season , 489 ; identical, not nugatory, 490; their use, 491; semi-identical, tbeir use, 492; by many regarded as basis of knowledge, 517 ; relieve memory, 517; not arrived at by induction, 517 ; are present implicitly in exam- ples, 518 ; exist in minds of all men, 518 ; their certainty dependent on comijarison of ideas, 519 ; must not be assumed gratis, 519 ; borrowed by subaltern sciences from superior in which they have been proved, 519; accepted provisionally, 520.
Medicine, the antiquities of, important, 371, 372; improbability of a better science of, 442 ; bad use of terms in, 443 ; well-detailed observations desir- able in, 489 ; as an indicial term, 627.
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" Meditationes de Cognitione, Veri- tate, et Ideis," 3, 14.
Memory, and reminiscence, 77 ; effects of former impressions without, 106 ; does not make same man, 114 ; after a time may deceive, 248 ; immediate and internal, cannot deceive, 248; mediate and external, may, 248; its fallibility, 403; an illustration of, from keeping accounts of Hartz mines, 403; how Leibnitz applied laws of, in keeping accounts, 403 ; its functions, .513; its limitations, 514.
Men, deprived of speech use other general signs, 145 ; with tails, 341 ; distribution of beard among, 341 ; prefer to deceive and be deceived, 389. [545.
Metaphysics, abstracts of, teach only words, 493; the most general science
Mind, things may be in, of which one is not always conscious, 20; may take necessary ideas from itself, 78 ; has more than mere passive capacity for receiving impressions, 80; is not as wax or tablet, 80 ; and judgment, distinguished, 144; are its ideas of itself no clearer than its ideas of substance ? 226 ; the Supreme and Universal, 516.
Miracles, not to be recurred to in ordi- nary way of nature, 55 ; accepted in despite of analogy, 553 ; refused by Christ, when? 606.
Mirror, knowledge of its construction as affecting rays of light, an illustra- tion of interior constitution of sub- stance and its relation to qualities, 458.
Mixed, conclusion, 84 ; modes, acquired by observation, 222 ; modes, acquired by invention, 222; modes, acquired by explaining terms, 222 ; modes, acquired in dreaming and reverie, 222, 223 ; modes, are they real ? 329; modes, do we always change species of, with change of a constituent idea, .385.
Mode, a geometrical, may be referred to specific essences, 386.
Modes, the, according to Locke, 5; their kinds, 5 ; what? 148; majority of, not simple, 164; mixed, what? 221; how distinguished from ideas of substance, 221; dependent on mind, 270 ; must be possible and compatible, 276; may be real acci- dents, 277 ; ingredients of, must be compossible, 277 ; impossible, can be
im happy and i feel very rewarded by making xcvr and friends, but it’s a very weird thing. if i call it art, then automatically it’s not that big a deal that i’m bad at sharing the stuff i make; art is ok to be just for you, in fact it has the most aura and religious significance when the art is just for you. but that’s somewhat a cop out. but is it?
invented, 280; it an idea in one of them changed, it becomes another thing, 385. Modification and attribute distin- guished, 58. Modifications which may belong nat- \u'aUy to a thing, 60.
Molyneux, liis problem as to a man's power of discriminating between ii cube and globe presented to him for the first time after obtaining sight, 138, 139, 141; his Dioptric, 484.
Monads, doctrine of, 101 ; substantial unities, 231 ; not mass, 507 ; how the soul acts in, .507 ; Bayle's objection to theory of, 507 ; originate from God and depend on Him, 511 ; the "how in detail" incomprehensible, 511 ; their conservation a continual creation, 511 ; doctrine of, evident everywhere, 553.
"Monatliche, Auszug," 5; Leibnitz's sketch of Locke's essay in, 7, 26-38.
Monster, is it a man? 314 ; can it be a species midway between beast and man, 447,448; his future state dis- cussed, 447, 448; possession of rea- son settles its manhood, 448; its birth and shape presumptions of its rationality, 448 ; we save it from destruction during uncertainty, 449 ; not made for nothing, 449.
Monsters, 344, 345, 340, 350, 351, 352; their classification discussed, 339.
Moods, in each figure six, 500; four common, what? 560; two added to first figure, 5li0 ; two added to sec- ond figure, 561.
Moral entities, their reality, 329 ; re- garded as " things " by jurisconsults, 329.
laws of, their violation does not disprove them to be innate, 93 ; ob- scured by excesses, 93 ; their neces- sity not demonstrated as it ought to be, 93; its principal point God's so- cial connection with us, 247 ; partly founded in reason, partly in experi- ence and disposition, 392; " the New Hypothesis" lays deep the founda- tions of, 433; consideration of goods of life ct)nduces to, 433 ; its questions can be decided as incontestably as those of mathematics, 433 ; diagrams proposed in, 43,5 : definitions invalu- able in, 435 ; algebra may help, 435 ; Weigel's diagrams to illustrate, 435 ; are its problems simpler than those of geometry, 436? ideas of, are they of human invention , 446 ; the proper science of all men, 525.
More, Henry, 67; his "aerial vehi- cles," 380; his "Hylarchic princi- ple," 382.
anyway, i still feel like i’m most proud of my almost poem. that turned out great, and i’m really happy that it takes place on web too, especially since i knew that i could export illustrator to svg and style it accordingly programmatically :)
Motion, in Aristotle, 174; by physical impulse and by thought, is it con- ceivable in either instance ? 232 ; its transference as an accident not con- ceivable, 2.32; amount of, lost in impact of bodies, 232.
Motions, never lost, 24 ; become indis- tinguishable, 25; according to Aris- totle, 174, .320 ; real phenomena, 219; image of action, 219; motivity, 220; laws of, derived from a cause superior to matter, 233; produced by thought, no idea or experience of, 233.
Motive, the present and the sensory furnish a, stronger, than the future and reasonable, 92.
Murder, its degrees employed to illus- trate how mixed modes change in species with change of a constituent idea, 385.
Names, family, 258, 25!) ; how bestowed on tribes, 251) ; improper use of, gives rise to coufiision (obscurity) of ideas, 268, 271 ; how they sliould be employed, 271 ; a particular one for each thing impossible, 307 ; such mul- tiplicity would baffle the end of lan- guage, 307 ; such multiplicity would not extend our knowledge, 307 ; proper, their use, 307 ; have usually been appellations at first, 307 ; of species, how given, 308 ; first used by young children personal, 309; their influence, 328; of substances say more than definition, 393, 394. Narquois, 293.
Nations, common origin of, 297, Natural light, 3i;, 38, 86, 88, 89, 92, 9G,
.'J97. Naturally, or, "in the order of nat- ure," defined, 60, 61. Nature, questioning, 18 ; makes no leaps, 50 ; of things and of mind agree, 74 ; labors to put herself more at her ease, l'.>4 ; a good econo- mist, 356 ; grand in effects, sparing in causes, 356; proceeds by shortest paths, 484; its order, not of meta- physical necessity, 582 ; grounded in good pleasure of God, 582 ; may de- viate therefore for superior reasons of grace, 582. Naufie', 580. Naudeana, 580.
Ne quis alterius daninojiat lucupletlor, Necessary, idea of, founded on pre- sumption of God's reasonable im- mutability, 180, Necessary truth, when possible to
prove, 3; what? 4, 326. Necessitate meclH, 620 ; Priecepti, 620. Necessity, never proved by experience, 22 ; when thought wanting, 182 ; when compulsion, 182 ; when restraint, 182 ; of geometrical and metaphysical con- sequences, 183 ; does not cuter into physical and moral consequences, 183 ; opposed to contingency, 183 ; not determination, 183. Need, art of thinking in time of, 214. Nicole, M., 617.
Ni/ul est in intellectu quod nonfuerit in seiisu excipe nisi ipse iiitellectus, 111.
honestly, it’s not that big a deal to me if nobody ever really engages with and loves xcvr, and it’s forgotten to time. but i also feel like when it works, it works,
Nomenclator, 330 ; an illustrated, printed at Nuremberg, 395.
Nominalists, 178, 623 ; seemed to make nature seem stingy, 356.
Nondnati, in Roman law, 360 ; age of puberty, an example of, 360.
' ' Nothing in us but of what we have been formerly conscious," 46.
Notion, what? 221, 222, 493; the true mark of a clear and distinct, 227; the word discussed, 329.
Number, 220; knowledge of, not in animals, 145; ideas precise in, 160; has no minimum in extent, 160 ; col- lective idea in, 160 ; memory in, 160 does not depend on imagination, 273 shoi-t methods in, desirable, 570 prime, how to recognize easily, 571.
OLcumenical councils preserved from error as to doctrine, 618.
Oldenburgh, 526 ; Count of, 259. One and one make two," a defini- tion, not an axiom, 23,
Opinion, the perception o[ a truth, 92 ; natural, the perception of an iuuate truth, 92; its value in support of truth, 530 ; freedom of, what ? 537 ; how acquired, 556.
Opinions, voluntary indirectly, 52.S ; theoretic, their practical influence, 535 ; how they spread, 535.
the one thing i really wish i did have was more of a feeling that i was part of the atproto dev community, i guess. she wants attention,
Opposition, between the individual and the public an evil, 620 ; between sects, an evil, 020 ; often an accident of party rather than result of rea- soned conviction, 620.
" Opposite angles made by intersec- tion of two straight lines an equal ' ' : is this truth innate ? 105.
Optics, may be learned by the blind, 140 ; founded on maxim that nature proceeds by the shortest paths, 484.
Order, tempore velnatura, 82 ; of analy- sis, different from that of occasion, 220; the natural distinguished from the historical, 470.
Orders of Eome, have narrower rules than their Church, 619.
Ourang-outang, man may become as stupid as, yet preserve rational soul, 244; illustrative of human form without human soul, 244.
Outlines, impression on empty tablets of mind, a thing of self -perception, 20.
Oyster, perception in, 142; tossed by monkey, an illustration, 491.
Pain, and pin, relation between, 133 ; why referred to body? 133; rudi- ments of, their place in our welfare, 170, 171 ; includes apperception, 194 ; partly unconscious, 195 ; what ? 200 ; a feeling of imperfection, 201.
metaphor, 137 ; in fresco, some good things like, 173 ; a, which was only intelligible when looked at through a cylindrical mirror, 209.
i should get out of maryland, i think this is a nowhere state where i can’t find irl ppl who are into this crap
Pandects, 290, 415 ; similarity of style among authors far separated in time, 410.
Parabola, how one may add to his idea of, without changing its concealed constitution, 386.
Particles, what? 364 ; their use, 364; not absolutely necessary, 364 ; their explanation, 366, 367 ; may connect parts of an idea, 364 ; should be in- vestigated, 368; catalogues of, 305; concealed in inflections of nonus and verbs, 365 ; best explained by para- phrase, 367; by ellipsis equal to com- plete sentiment, 368.
Particular propositions appear as uni- versal affirmations, 568.
Passion, how controlled, 207 ; or pas- sive power discussed, 218 ; towards imperfection, 219; when it is con- fused, a step towards pain, 219.
Passions, whence? 167; what? 172; af- fect body, 173 ; can be mastered, 207 ; their illogical influence, 614, 015.
Pearls of Slusius, geometric figures about which much was known before they were found to be cubic parabo-
Pendulnm, employed to measure length, 150, 150; called in German, " unruhe," 171.
Perceptions, exist too feeble to be re- memljered : illustration of, 24 ; if we did not always have, could not be waked from sleep, 24 ; illustration of man waked by several voices, not by one, 24 ; never lost, 25 ; become in- distinguishable by composition, 28; without apperception infinite, 47 ; reasons wby we may not be conscious of, 17, 48; insensible, their efficacy, form images of qualities, 48 ; con- nect each being with rest of uni- verse, 48 ; make present big with future, and laden with past, 48; insensible, explain Pre-established Harmony, 49 ; insensible, render death n sleep, 49 ; insensible, con- stitute sameness of individual, 49; insensible, their determining influ- ence, 49 ; and objects, their relations not arbitrary, 50 ; insensible, give rise to noticeable perceptions, 50; insensible, of use in pneumatology, 50; insensible, exj^lain why souls are never perfectly alike, 50, 52 ; not perceived or remembered, known only by consequences, 112 ; have them while asleep, 112 ; minute, mental, though not perceptible, have effects, 116 ; unpremeditated actions, result of minute, IIG ; thence customs, 116; thence passions, IKi; these in morals, what corpuscles are in xjhysics, 110 ; prevent indifference in moral actions, 116 ; incline with- out necessitating, 116 ; of which not conscious, 121, 135; defined, 130; animals have, 135 ; have we, uncon- sciously? 135 ; mind passive in, 135 ; Locke denies unconscious, 136; in plants, 141, 142 ; of images, 142, 143 ; feeble, in oyster and mussel, 112; never without minute, 1()6 ; none
indifferent to us, 167; confused, advantages of, 170 ; perceptible only in mass, 199; pertain to all the entelechies, 218 ; in enthusiast, 597.
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Perfection, man's highest, in search for true happiness, 206.
Perfections, certain, bring greater im- perfections, 208, 209.
Peripatetics, 65 ; obscure, 378 ; on rare- faction and condensation, 124 ; their ten predicaments, 380.
Perpetual mechanical movement, il- lustration of an "apparent idea," 505.
Persons, can there be two with same immaterial substance ? 248.
Petrouius, " adolescentes in scholis shiltissimos fieri," 482.
Phantasms, 459 ; sensitive, 459 ; good term for "secondary qualities" or "sensitive ideas," 459; confused, cannot abide if distinguished into ingredients, 459.
Philosophy, practical, 021 ; as an indi- cial term, 627 ; introductory to other divisions, 028.
Physics, as a whole, will never be a perfect science, 525 ; some parts of scientifically detailed, 525; cannot give a reason for all experiments in 525 ; its content, 621. '
Pineapple, cannot experience its taste by account, 321; its cultivation, 322.
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Place, what? 152; particular, 152; universal, 152 ; il nothing fixed, could yet he determined, 152; an order oJ coexistences, 229.
Plato, 392 ; supposed to helieve that soul has originally principles or ideas, 42, 43 ; his idea of matter, 66 ; his " Meno," 78; on conscience, 91; his "Phasdo," 170.
Platonist, his soul of world, 380, 382 ; his reminiscence refuted, 105.
Pleasure, how founded ? on semi- pleasures, 170; on semi-pains, 170; a step to happiness, 200 ; its low- est degree, 200; its most estlmahle ,. kind, 200; what? 200, 201; feeling and appetite carry to, 201 ; can grow infinitely, 201 ; cannot have a nomi- nal definition, 201 ; allows a causal definition, 201 ; and happiness dis- tinguished, 207 ; a feeling of perfec- tion, 200, 201, 208; or displeasure accompanying aa action can be changed, 216 ; good, of God, defined, 431 ; cum ratione iiisaiiire, an ele- ment in, 459.
Pleasure and pain, 167-173 ; not capable of nominal definition, 167 ; alfinity of, 170 ; pertain only to mind, 200 ; originate in mind and body, 200, 202 ; not iji matter but in soul, 430.
Pleasures, luminous, how they improve us, 207 ; confused, the danger of, 207 two cannot be enjoyed at once, 210 can they be enjoyed with pain ? 211 do men diminish future? 212.
Pluto, his helmet, 479. Pneumatics, doctrine of spirit, 362.
Power, idea of, how formed, 130, 174; possibility of change, 174; active, may he called force, 174 ; active, the proper attribute of spirit, 174, 233; passive, as mobility and resistance, 174, 17."! ; passive, that of bodies, 174, 177, 233; a simple idea through ignorance, 175 ; relation of, 175 ; active, idea of, furnished by reflec- tion, 175, 177 ; an obscure idea of, given by an impinging body, 176 ; its noblest sense, 176 ; active, in entele- chies alone, 177; liberty the most important form of, 218 ; what ? 224 ; includes tendency, 224 ; an entelechy, 224.
Powers, pure, are fictions, 110; real, not possibilities, 112 ; have tendency, 112.
Predicaments, 361 ; use of, important, 311, 380 ; the ten, of the Peripatetics, 380 ; may be reduced, 380.
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Pre-established Harmony, 49, 230, 233, 252, 333, 421 ; requires sensible outlines, 78 ; explains motion of bodies, 229; its influence on theology and pneumatology, 363.
Pre-judgments, by which men would except themselves from discussion, 531 ; legitimate in the Romish con- troversy, 531.
Primitive truths cannot be proved by anything more certain, 410.
"Prince, a great," as benefactor of tlie race, expected by Leibnitz, 4o8, 029.
Principle of principles : union of definitions by means of identical axioms, 521.
Principles, first, according to Leibnitz, 1.'3 ; on whicli men agree, 71 ; not im- pressions wbich minds receive witb their existence, 71 ; universal con- sent does not prove tliem innate, 71 ; not universal, 71; the two great speculative, 77; first, how arrived at, 99; should be open to judicious investigation, 108, 473.
Probabilities, mathematical calcula- tion, of, 539; illustrated, 540, 541; a new logic of, 541 ; methods of es- caping unpleasant, 014, 615.
Probability, the part of logic which estimates, still wanting, 213; Aris- totle's mistake concerning, 214; its consideration important yet neg- lected, 417; degrees of resem- blance (ex datis) can be determined, 417 ; teaching of Jesuit moralists concerning, 418 ; must be drawn from the nature of things, 419 ; oi)inions of persons collateral only to its determination, 419; opinion of Copernicus, though he was alone, had most, 419; art of estimating, more useful than most demonstra- tive sciences, 419; grounds of, 529, 530, 5.32; its highest degree, 5.38; nature of, .'i29, 585; false measures of, in what they consist, Oil; onecan- nf)t lean to side of less, 015.
Proclus, 108, 403, 491; demonstrates axioms, 14 ; his pliilosophical style, 416.
*' Proferendls, De, scientix devioii- straiidi ponioeriis," 437.
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Proof, advantage of continued appli- cation of, 402, 403 ; complete, 538 ; more than complete, 538 ; more than half complete, 538; less than half complete, 538 ; slender, should it in criminal charges be in any case ac- cepted against a man ? 577 ; slender, acceiDted against a man not to con- demn him , but to prevent him doing harm, 577.
Proxiositions, which secure acquies- cence as soon as heard, are they found in physics as well as mathe- matics? 83; identical, do not admit proof, 83 ; universal, of the truth or certitude of, 452; being certain of, 454 ; can they be obtained by expe- rience of "consequences in a con- stant manner " ? 401 ; express as late an effort of mind as formulat- ing axioms, 470 ; general, concerning substance, are often trifling, 493; some grand and beautiful, 494 ; uni- versal, do not relate to existence, 498; miiversal, may be accidental, 498 ; a division of, into general and particular, virtually a division into those of fact and those of reason, 514 ; capable of a certain generality, 514; of reason, 515 ; mixed, 515 ; how far general and certain, 515 ; cate- gorical and hypothetical, how re- lated, 515, 510; of two kinds: of fact, 537 ; of speculation, 537.
Propensities, insensible perceptions of perfections and imperfections, 201.
Prophecies, instances of pretended, 604; their bad effects, 005 ; alleged, said to have had a good effect, 606.
Prosthaphieresis, in probability, 540; how employed by peasantry, 540.
doctors, 591. Proverbs, 481. Psittacism, 191, 196. Public, opiuion, its force, 202; spirit
53H. " Public spirits," 536. Puceias, Franciscus, 593. Puffendorf, 435. Punishment, 2(i0. Pyramid, conserv-ition of measure by,
Qualities of things, defined, 131 ; pri- mary, what ? 131 ; secondary, what ? 132; power, when regarded among the primary, 132 ; power, when re- garded among the secondary, 132; secondary, their relations to corre- sponding ideas, 1.33 ; even primary, do not appear uniformly, 134 ; clas- sified upon basis of most common conditions, 1.34; real, what? 134; what? 148; sensible, confused, 432 ; sensible connections known only through experience, 432 ; analysis employed in, 4-32 ; secondary (sensi- tive ideas), their relation to interior constitution of bodies, a confused re- sultant of the actions of bodies upon us, 458.
Quarto modo, properties in, how appli- cable to uijima species, 455.
movement and noise, 299. Rabbinage, 372. Ragosky impelled to attack Poland,
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Ramus, Peter, ou the reduction of logi- cal figures, 408, 409.
Rank, of man in scale of being, 439; carries with it requirements, 6U9, 610.
Reality, what? 22, 148; of relations depends not merely on the minds of men but on that of God, 276, 277 ; of the nominal definition, 316 ; of our knowledge, 444.
Reason, natural revelation, 32; essen- tial to all revelation, 32 ; its place in investigating an alleged revela- tion, .36; of men, 69; animals have, 145 ; prefers to consecrate term to man, 146 : to declaim against, foolish, 206; "a concatenation of truths," 206; consists in knowing the truth and following the good, 206 ; depends on characters, 220 ; Leibnitz's definition of, 555 ; Locke's definition of, 555; a special defini- tion of, 555 ; its uses as defined, 555 ; a priori, 556 ; in truths corresponds to cause in things, 556; confined to man, 556 ; apparent in animals, what? 556; its two parts, 556; its four degrees, 556 ; one of these not apparent, 556; contrary to, when? 578 ; above, when ? 578, 579 ; things beyond our present faculties not above, 578, 579 ; not opposed to faith, 580; defined, 583; used by all as long as it seems to aid them, 583 ; in theology agitated between Socin- ians and Catholics, 585 ; and custom, difficult to satisfy both, 609.
Reasoning, an oddness in some people due to a non-natural connection of ideas, 282; what? 411; all, springs from things already known and agreed to, 413; is ex prsecognitis et prseconcessis, 413, 470 ; claims of, an infinite number of, 561.
Reduction, of figures in logic best ef- fected by principle of contradiction, 407.
Reflection, according to Locke, 4; "a regard for wliat is in us, and born in us," 11, 45; more than Loclie makes it, reaches mind, 23, 24, 45, 75, 82 ; where Locke approaclies nearest Leibnitz, 111 ; senses furnish material for, 220.
Regula, non ex, jus suini, sed ex jure quod est regulam jieH, maxim of Paulus, 486.
Relations, a complex idea according to Locke, 5 ; of comparison, 144 ; of con- currence, 144 ; subjects of, 235 ; have something of essence of reason, 235 ; have foundations in things, 235 ; come from supreme reason, 235 ; may change, without change of subject, 235 ; ideas of, their clearness, 236 ; of proportion, 258 ; of imperfect magnitude, 258; of origin, 258; of the family, 258 ; of consanguinity, 259; alliance, 259; affinity, 259; nat- ural and moral, 200 ; by institution, 260 ; itself often clearer than its ground, 265 ; value of knowing ground of, 265 ; dependent on Divine Mind, 277 ; knowledge of, largest field of human investigation, 432.
Relative terms, what ? 235, 236 ; which are usually deemed positives, 237.
Reminiscence, 15, 20, 77, 107 ; of Plato, 15, 46 ; of what we know sometimes difficult, 20 ; Plato's doctrine of, de- nied, 21, 79, 80; how distinguished from other forms of thinking, 105.
Resistance in matter, is it invinci- ble? 122; arises in different ways, 122, 123; defined, 122; comes from
inertia, 123 ; comes from impetuos- ity of body, 123 ; comes from adhe- sion, 123. Resolutions, should be made when a. mau is in the midst of good im- pulses, 192; should be kept when their sensible reasons are only surd thoughts, 196. Respondentes, 478, 479. Rest, its privative nature discussed,
131 ; cause of, 131. Restraint, what ? 182. Restitutio in integrum, 5.34. Retention, a faculty of mind in con- templation, 142; in memory, 142, 143. Revelation, what? 32; must be sure concerning, 554; original, 584; tra- ditional , 684 ; cannot go against clear evidence of reason, 584 ; cannot be received against intuitive knowl- edge, 584 ; determines against prob- ability, 585 ; supernatural reason, 596 ; had external signs, 597 ; God sometimes illumines mind in, 597 ; defined, 598; judged by reason and Scripture, 598. Reveries, 165, 166. Reversal of viscera, 352. Revolution, a general, said to be im- minent through the spread of loose opinions, 536 ; will be a punishment and yet an advantage, 536. Reward, 260.
Rhetoric, not truthful or calm, 389; though fallacious, popular, 389 ; cer- tain ornaments of, wisely employed, 390. Rhine, 308.
Richard First of England, exonerated from charge of murder by Old Man of the Mountain, 197. River changes its waters, yet is same
river, 240. Rivers, their names, 308. Roberval, at eighty publishes his geom- etry, 463 ; his work on Euclid's ele- ments, 107, 473. Rod and sugar illustration, 470. Rohaut on motion , 233. Romans ii. 15, quoted , 43 ; 14 : 4 quoted 447.
in law and arms, 415. Romulus, doubts about, 545. "Rorarius," t'6. Rothwelsch, its nature, 292. Round, why distant things seem so,
120. Buentis Acervi, problem of, 328. Ruhr, 308. Rules, sure when established on reason,
Scaliger, Joseph, writes against math- ematicians, 93; Julius, his semina seternitatis, 43 ; dream of, 106.