



Produced by Steve Harris and David Widger




AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING

IN FOUR BOOKS

BY JOHN LOCKE

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista
effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere.
--Cic. De Natur. Deor. 1. i.


LONDON

Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet
Street, near St. Dunstan's Church.

MDCXC



CONTENTS:
[Based on the 2d Edition]

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE EARL OF PEMBROKE

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

INTRODUCTION


BOOK I.  NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE.

I.      NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES
II.     NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES
III.    OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH
        SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL



BOOK II.  OF IDEAS.

I.      OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL
II.     OF SIMPLE IDEAS
III.    OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSATION
IV.     IDEA OF SOLIDITY
V.      OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES
VI.     OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION...
VII.    OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION AND REFLECTION
VIII.   SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING OUR SIMPLE
        IDEAS OF SENSATION
IX.     OF PERCEPTION
X.      OF RETENTION
XI.     OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND
XII.    OF COMPLEX IDE