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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Tneroduction.
+. An Finguiri into the Onderstan.
dins pleasant and usesul.
2. Desieen.
3. Method.
4. 2 sesut ro tenou the extent of our
Comprehension.
5. Our Capacitr preportioned to out
State and Concerns; to discover
thines useful t0us.
6. Knovine the extent of our Capaci
ties villhinder us from useless Cu
riosity Scepticism, and Telleness.
. Occasion ofthis FPay:
8. Apolocy for Idea.
stl +.
8. H Reason discovered chem, ihai
vould not prove theminnaie.
quo
12
thent.
Tis false that. Reason discovers
CHAP. II.
Ho innate speculative Principles.
SECF.
E. The vay seron hou we come By
any sinouledse, sufficient to prove
it not innate.
2. Generat Assent the oreat Argu
ment.
3. Universal Consent proves nothine
innate.
+. Whatis, i5; and, TEis impossible
For the lame thinq to bc, and
Hot to De, not universally assen-
+ed +0.
3. Not on ihe Mina naturally im-
printed, because noi tenoon +0
Children Idiots, EC.
67. That Men tnow them When they
come tothe use of Reason, ansiver d.
+2
The comme te te 2se of Reason.
not the time We come to kno
t
These Maxims.
Bythis, therare not distinguistred
Trom other hnovable Truths.
Is comine to the use of Reason
vere the time of their discovery.
Et wonldnot prode theminnate.
5, 16. L seps N Which the Mind at-
tains severat Truths.
T. entine as fodn as proposed and
understood, proves them not in-
nate.
(0. 1) facts unemibe a marke of ix-
nate, then that, One and Tuo are
equal. to Three; that Sweetness
is not Bitterness; and a thou-
Sand the like must be innate.
9. Duchlesssen Propositions tnoun
defore these un versal Maxims.
26. Oe and One. equat t0 Tuo, ec.
noc general nor useful, ansivered.
LL. Lhese Maxims not beine tenoion
sometimes sill proposed, proves
Ehem not innate.
LL. Impliciily knocon before proposine
nistes thatthe Mind is capable
ot understandine them, or else
Tenisies nochine.
23. DC L Lament os assentine on first
bearine, is upon a false suxposi-
non of no precellent teachine.
24. Not innate, because not universally
aented 10.
25. These Maxims not EIs AS KHoN.
2.6. nd sonot innate.
27. 0t