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CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME III.


BOOK IV. continued.
CHAPTER V.
OF TRUTH IN GENERAL.
SECT.
1. What truth is.
2. A right joining or separating of signs; i.e. ideas or words.
3. Which make mental or verbal propositions.
4. Mental propositions are very hard to be treated of.
5. Being nothing but joining or separating ideas, without words.
6. When mental propositions contain real truth, and when verbal.
7. Objection against verbal truth, that thus it may be all chimerical.
8. Answered, real truth is about ideas agreeing to things.
9. Falsehood is the joining of names, otherwise than their ideas agree.
10. General propositions to be treated of more at large.
11. Moral and metaphysical truth.
CHAPTER VI.

OF UNIVERSAL PROPOSITIONS, THEIR TRUTH AND CERTAINTY.

SECT.
1. Treating of words, necessary to knowledge.
2. General truths hardly to be understood, but in verbal propositions.
3. Certainty two-fold, of truth, and of knowledge.
4. No proposition can be known to be true, where the essence of each species mentioned is not known.
5. This more particularly concerns substances.
6. The truth of few universal propositions concerning substances is to be known.