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The Contents.
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CHAPTER VI.

OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTIONS.

SECT.
1. Simple ideas are the operations of the mind about its other ideas.
2. The idea of perception, and idea of willing, we have from reflection.
CHAPTER VII.

OF SIMPLE IDEAS, BOTH OF SENSATION AND REFLECTION.

SECT.
1–6. Pleasure and pain.
7. Existence and unity.
8. Power.
9. Succession.
10. Simple ideas, the materials of all our knowledge.
CHAPTER VIII.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING SIMPLE IDEAS.

SECT.
1–6. Positive ideas from privative causes.
7, 8. Ideas in the mind, qualities in bodies.
9, 10. Primary and secondary qualities.
11, 12. How primary qualities produce their ideas.
13, 14. How secondary.
15–23. Ideas of primary qualities, are resemblances ;. of secondary, not.
24, 25. Reason of our mistake in this.
26. Secondary qualities twofold; first, immediately perceivable; secondly, mediately perceivable.
CHAPTER IX.

OF PERCEPTION.

SECT.
1. It is the first simple idea of reflection.
2–4. Perception is only when the mind receives the impression.
5, 6. Children, though they have ideas in the womb, have none innate.
7. Which ideas first, is not evident.
8–10. Ideas of sensation often changed by the judgment.
11–14. Perception puts the difference between animals and inferior beings.
15. Perception the inlet of knowledge.