PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS & HILLIARD AND J. T. BUCKINGHAM. J. T. Buckingham, Printer, Winter-Street. 1813. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. ESSAY ON HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, CONTINUED: CHAP. VII. BOOK III. 1 Particles connect parts, or whole 2 In them confifts the art of well 3, 4 They fhow what relation the 5 Inftance in but. 6 This matter but lightly touched SECT. CHAP. VIII. Of abftract and concrete terms. 1 Abstract terms not predicable one 2 They show the difference of our SECT. CHAP. IX. Of the imperfection of words. 1 Words are used for recording and 2 Any words will ferve for record- 3 Communication by words, civil or 4 The imperfection of words, is the ful: First, Because the ideas they 7 Secondly, Because they have no 8 Propriety not a fufficient remedy. 10 Hence unavoidable obscurity in an- 11 Names of substances of doubtful fig- 12 Names of substances referred. First, 13, 14 Secondly, To co-exifting quali- 2, 3 First, Words without any, or 4 Occafioned by learning names be- 5 Secondly, Unfteady application of 6 Thirdly, Affected obfcurity by 7 Logic and dispute has much con- 8 Calling it fubtilty. 9 This learning very little benefits 10 But destroys the inftruments of 11 As useful as to confound the found 12 This art has perplexed religion and 13 And ought not to pass for learn- 14 Fourthly, Taking them for things. 16 This makes errors lafting. 18 V. g. putting them for the real ef- 19 Hence we think every change of 140874 |