CONTENTS. 



Mr Locke fays little of Propofitions ; — does not m:ike the diftlnciion betwixt the 

 Predicate and Subject ; — did not underlland the meaning of the word Sylhgifm ;— 

 has told us, in a few words, what Truth is, which Arillotle has explained in his Ca- 

 tegoriesy his Book of Interpretation, and his Analytics. -^^r Locke full on the fubjeift 

 ot Ideas. — Tliefe to be confidercd in tlus chapter. — The nature of them not ex- 

 plained by Ari.'lotle nor by Porphyry in his IntroduBion to Ariftotk's Logic. — This 

 Detect attempted to be fupplied by the Author. — Diftin(Slion betwixt Particular and 

 General Ideas neccfTTy , — the former produce the latter. — O "" firfi Ideas are of 

 particular Objefts of Senfe:— Thefe formed by feparating the /^fr////VJr qualities of 

 Objtdh from the accidental'. — Example of this operation referred to. — Tlie next 

 flep is abftracling them from the Body in which they are inherent : — Mr Locke ad- 

 mits Ideas of this kind. — Then generalifing thtm : — Our firft General Ideas of Spe- 

 cicfes ; — from thefe we afcend to Genufes ; — land from Genufes to the Categories. — 

 Confufion of Mr Locke on this Subject — Propriety of Plato's Definition of an Idea. 

 — The CialTrs of the higheft Genufes numbered by Archytas. — The number of 

 Speciefes and Genufes* infinite with refpe£t to our capacities. — Wonderful how the 

 infinity of things cati be arranged and made the obje<n: of our contemplation ; — 

 done by abflra<^ion and generalization. — Mr Locke ignorant of the namre of Ideas: 

 — He confounds them with Senfations : — Gives them to Children in tlie womb : — 

 Makes our feelings of Pleafure and Pain Ideas, — and accounts for finging birds re- 

 taining the tunes they have learned, by their having the Ideas of them in their me- 

 mories. — Mr Locke's error in not dif^inguifhing a Senfation from an Idea. — He 

 confounds Action and Paflion, and the Intellectual with the Animal Life : — Igno- 

 rant even of the nature of Senfations ; — did not know that, with refpe(St to them, 

 the rdind is pafftve, and with refptcl to Ideas aElive. — Caufe of Mr Locke's error 

 his not diftinguifhing betwixt the materials of which Ideas are formed, and Ideas 

 thcnifelves. — Recapitulation of the imperfe«5lions of Mr Locke'* EfTiy ; — neverthe- 

 lefs taught in fome of our Univerfities as a complete fyftem of Logic, while Arifto- 

 tle's Logic is neglected. — Of our Phantafii; — a faculty of great ufe in formipg 

 Ideas ; — different from Memory : — It is the Cul^oJier of our SenOtions : — MetsrOry 

 the repofitory of Ideas. — Difference betwixt Man and Brute with refpefl to the 



PhantaGa Our Ideas of Mind, and of its different kinds, formed in the fame way 



that we form Particular and General Ideas of objeds of Senfe. — This elfewhere ex- 

 plained. — The mjinner how particular Ideas are contaii;ed in general : — It fhows 

 the relation betwixt the Praedicate and the Subje<^ of Propofitions. — Of the uCe of 

 a good Logic, which fliows us the progrefs of our Ideas from the moft ilmjJle Ideas 

 of objeds of Senfe to the moft general Ideas of any, and which are faid to be 

 Things exijling ; as they contain all other things, and arc continued in the Supreme 

 :nind. — Thus a good Logic conducts us to Theology. p. 165. 



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