New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

By: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX A TO THE CRITIQUE OF LOCKE "A in theology," applied to Antoinette Bourignon, 603. "A is not B," compared with " A is non-B,"84. A posteriori and a priori, complementary methods, 315. .-1 posteriori truths, 499. A priori proofs, 227; truths, 499; argument for existence of God, 503. "A B " who says, says " A," 471. Abridge, natural inclination of mind to, 561. Absolute, idea of, anterior to that of limits. 158; anterior to all composition, 162; is that of the infinite, 12, 17, 162; "in us internally," 163; opposed to relative, 236. Absolutes, the attributes of God are, 163; the source of ideas, 163. Abstract, and concrete, how related, 128; thoughts have need of things sensible, 78; entities, their reality? 178. Abstracts affirmed of each other, not always purely verbal, 497. Abstraction, its process, 309; by it we arrive at essences, 497; gives no knowledge of real existence, 497. Abstractions, when not errors, 51; to be avoided, 225, 226. Academic disputes, 478, 479. Academicians, 421. Accidental and contingent, 498. Accidents, real beings, 154; when bestowed miraculously, 428. Accidents of bodies, not arbitrarily accorded by God, 428, 431; are not as pigeons going into and out of their holes, 428; sometimes virtually made substances, 428: if not modes' of their being or modifications of I their substances, then miraculous, 428; are suitable to their nature, 431; are not removed from 'reason in general, ' 431. Acervi Ruentis, problem of, 328. Acroamatic, 42, 272. Act, how forced yet volnntarv, 181, 184. Actes de Leipzic, 227, 319. 502: lies Scavans, 14. Action, essential to substance, 11,218; body and soul ever in, 111; two kinds of, 175,218; constantbecau.se nature ever labors to put herself at ease, 194; perception, a form of, ...

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• Language: English
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