# Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

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| | | CONTENTS. | |
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| | | PREFACE | 1 |
| | | ESSAY I. PRELIMINARY. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Explication of words, | 9 |
| ― | 2. | Principles taken for granted, | 36 |
| ― | 3. | Of hypotheses, | 46 |
| ― | 4. | Of analogy, | 52 |
| ― | 5. | Of the proper means of knowing the operations of the mind, | 57 |
| ― | 6. | Of the difficulty of attending to the operations of our own minds, | 61 |
| ― | 7. | Division of the powers of the mind, | 67 |
| ― | 8. | Of social operations of mind, | 72 |
| | | ESSAY II. OF THE POWERS WE HAVE BY MEANS OF OUR EXTERNAL SENSES. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of the organs of sense, | 75 |
| ― | 2. | Of the impressions on the organs, nerves, and brain, | 79 |
| ― | 3. | Hypotheses concerning the nerves and brain, | 82 |
| ― | 4. | False conclusions drawn from the impressions before mentioned, | 94 |
| ― | 5. | Of perception, | 105 |
| ― | 6. | What it is to account for a phaemomenon in Nature, | 112 |
| ― | 7. | Sentiments of Philosophers about the perceptions of external objects; and, first, Of the theory of Father Malebranche, | 115 |
| ― | 8. | Of the common theory of perception, and of the sentiments of the Peripatetics, and of Des Cartes, | 125 |
| ― | 9. | Of the sentiments of Mr Locke, | 143 |
| ― | 10. | Of the sentiments of Bishop Berkeley, | 156 |
| ― | 11. | Bishop Berkeley's sentiments of the nature of ideas, | 174 |
| ― | 12. | Of the sentiments of Mr Hume, | 185 |
| ― | 13. | Of the sentiments of Anthony Arnauld, | 190 |
| ― | 14. | Reflections on the common theory of ideas, | 197 |
| ― | 15. | Account of the system of Leibnitz, | 218 |
| ― | 16. | Of sensation, | 226 |
| ― | 17. | Of the objects of perception; and, first, Of primary and secondary qualities, | 235 |
| ― | 18. | Of other objects of perception, | 248 |
| ― | 19. | Of matter and of space, | 257 |
| ― | 20. | Of the evidence of sense, and of belief in general, | 267 |
| ― | 21. | Of the improvement of the senses, | 278 |
| ― | 22. | Of the fallacy of the senses, | 288 |
| | | ESSAY III. OF MEMORY. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Things obvious and certain with regard to memory, | 303 |
| ― | 2. | Memory an original faculty, | 306 |
| ― | 3. | Of duration, | 310 |
| ― | 4. | Of identity, | 315 |
| ― | 5. | Of Mr Locke's account of the origin of our ideas, and particularly of the idea of duration, | 322 |
| ― | 6. | Of Mr Locke's account of our personal identity, | 332 |
| ― | 7. | Theories concerning memory, | 338 |
| | | ESSAY IV. OF CONCEPTION. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of conception, or simple apprehension in general, | 357 |
| ― | 2. | Theories concerning conception, | 378 |
| ― | 3. | Mistakes concerning conception, | 395 |
| ― | 4. | Of the train of thought in the mind, | 405 |
| | | ESSAY V. OF ABSTRACTION. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of general words, | 431 |
| ― | 2. | Of general conceptions, | 438 |
| ― | 3. | Of general conceptions formed by analysing objects, | 445 |
| ― | 4. | Of general conceptions formed by combination, | 455 |
| ― | 5. | Observations concerning the names given to our general notions, | 471 |
| ― | 6. | Opinions of Philosophers about universals, | 475 |
| | | ESSAY VI. OF JUDGMENT. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of judgment in general, | 497 |
| ― | 2. | Of common sense, | 519 |
| ― | 3. | Sentiments of Philosophers concerning judgment, | 532 |
| ― | 4. | Of first principles in general, | 555 |
| ― | 5. | The first principles of contingent truths, | 575 |
| ― | 6. | First principles of necessary truths, | 605 |
| ― | 7. | Opinions, ancient and modern, about first principles, | 632 |
| ― | 8. | Of prejudices, the causes of error, | 651 |
| | | ESSAY VII. OF REASONING. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of reasoning in general, and of demonstration, | 671 |
| ― | 2. | Whether morality be capable of demonstration, | 678 |
| ― | 3. | Of probable reasoning, | 689 |
| ― | 4. | Of Mr Hume's scepticism with regard to reason, | 697 |
| | | ESSAY VIII. OF TASTE. | |
| Chap. | 1. | Of taste in general, | 713 |
| ― | 2. | Of the objects of taste, and first of novelty, | 721 |
| ― | 3. | Of grandeur, | 725 |
| ― | 4. | Of beauty, | 737 |
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