On the Improvement of Understanding
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On the Improvement of Understanding

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eBook - ePub

On the Improvement of Understanding

About this book

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

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Table of contents

  1. Notice to the Reader
  2. On the Improvement of the Understanding
  3. Of the Ordinary Objects of Men's Desires
  4. Of the True and Final Good
  5. Certain Rules of Life
  6. Of the Four Modes of Perception
  7. Of the Best Mode of Perception
  8. Of the Instruments of the Intellect, Or True Ideas
  9. Answers to Objections
  10. Distinction of True Ideas From Fictitious Ideas
  11. And From False Ideas
  12. Of Doubt
  13. Of Memory and Forgetfulness
  14. Mental Hindrances From Words—And From the Popular Confusion of Ready Imagination With Distinct Understanding
  15. Its Object, the Acquisition of Clear and Distinct Ideas
  16. Its Means, Good Definitions—Conditions of Definition
  17. How To Define Understanding