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CHAPTER IV. | ||
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL. | ||
SECT. | ||
1. | Principles not innate, unless their ideas be innate. | |
2, 3. | Ideas, especially those belonging to principles, not born with children. | |
4, 5. | Identity, an idea not innate. | |
6. | Whole and part, not innate ideas. | |
7. | Idea of worship not innate. | |
8–11. | Idea of God, not innate. | |
12. | Suitable to God's goodness, that all men should have an idea of him, therefore naturally imprinted by him, answered. | |
13–16. | Ideas of God various in different men. | |
17. | If the idea of God be not innate, no other can be supposed innate. | |
18. | Idea of substance not innate. | |
19. | No propositions can be innate, since no ideas are innate. | |
20. | No ideas are remembered, till after they have been introduced. | |
21. | Principles not innate, because of little use, or little certainty. | |
22. | Difference of men's discoveries depends upon the different applications of their faculties. | |
23. | Men must think and know for themselves. | |
24. | Whence the opinion of innate principles. | |
25. | Conclusion. | |
BOOK II. | ||
CHAPTER I. | ||
OF IDEAS IN GENERAL. | ||
SECT. | ||
1. | Idea is the object of thinking. | |
2. | All ideas come from sensation or reflection. | |
3. | The objects of sensation one source of ideas. | |
4. | The operations of our minds, the other source of them. | |
5. | All our ideas are of the one or the other of these. | |
6. | Observable in children. | |
7. | Men are differently furnished with these, according to the different objects they converse with. | |
8. | Ideas of reflection later, because they need attention. | |
9. | The soul begins to have ideas when it begins to perceive. | |
10. | The soul thinks not always; for this wants proofs. |