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CONTENTS.
| The First Part Containing the Prolegomena. | ||
| CHAPTER, I. | ||
| I. | THE Introduction.II. The Original of Languages.III. The First Mother Tongues.IV. Their several Offsprings. | Page; 1 |
| CHAP. II. | ||
| I. | Concerning the various Changes and Corruptions, to which all vulgar Languages are obnoxious.II. Particularly concerning the Change of the English Tongue.III. Whether any Language formerly in use, be now wholly lost. IV. Concerning the first rise and occasion of New Languages. | pag. 6 |
| CHAP. III. | ||
| I. | The Original of Letters and Writing.II. That all Letters were derived from the Hebrew.III. The use of Letters is less Antient, and the Kinds of them less numerous, than of Languages themselves. IV. Of Notes for secrecy or brevity.V. Of a Real Character.VI. Of Alphabets in General. | pag. 10 |
| CHAP. IV. | ||
| I. | Of the defects in Common Alphabets, as to the true Order of the Letters,II. Their just number,III. Determinate Powers,V. Fitting names,V. Proper Figures,VI. Of the Imperfections belonging to the Words of Languages, as to their Equivocalness, Variety of Synonymous Words, Uncertain Phraseologies, Improper way of Writing. | pag. 14 |
| CHAP. V. | ||
| I. | That neither Letters nor Languages, have been regularly established by the Rules of Art.II. The Natural ground or Principle of the several ways of Communication amongst Men.III. The first thing to be provided for, in the establishing of a Philosophical Character or Language, is a just enumeration of all such Things and Notions, to which Names are to be assigned. | pag. 19 |
| The Second Part Containing Universal Philosophy. | ||
| CHAPTER. I. | ||
| I. | THE Scheme of Genus's.II. Concerning the more General Notions of Things, The difficulty of Establishing these aright.III. Of Transcendentals General.IV. Of Transcendentals Mixed. | |
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