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The Contents.
CHAPTER X. | ||
OF RETENTION. | ||
SECT. | ||
1. | Contemplation. | |
2. | Memory. | |
3. | Attention, repetition, pleasure, and pain, fix ideas. | |
4, 5. | Ideas fade in the memory. | |
6. | Constantly repeated ideas can scarce be lost. | |
7. | In remembering, the mind is often active. | |
8, 9. | Two defects in the memory, oblivion and slowness. | |
10. | Brutes have memory. | |
CHAPTER XI. | ||
OF DISCERNING, &C. | ||
SECT. | ||
1. | No knowledge without it. | |
2. | The difference of wit and judgment. | |
3. | Clearness alone hinders confusion. | |
4. | Comparing. | |
5. | Brutes compare but imperfectly. | |
6. | Compounding. | |
7. | Brutes compound but little. | |
8. | Naming. | |
9. | Abstraction. | |
10, 11. | Brutes abstract not. | |
12, 13. | Idiots and madmen. | |
14. | Method. | |
15. | These are the beginnings of human knowledge. | |
16. | Appeal to experience. | |
17. | Dark room. | |
CHAPTER XII. | ||
OF COMPLEX IDEAS. | ||
SECT. | ||
1. | Made by the mind out of simple ones. | |
2. | Made voluntarily. | |
3. | Are either modes, substances, or relations. | |
4. | Modes. | |
5. | Simple and mixed modes. | |
6. | Substances single or collective. | |
7. | Relation. | |
8. | The abstrusest ideas from the two sources. |