Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III
by John Locke
About this book
This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our minds and the things they are to represent. What does it mean to define a thing? What is an abstract idea? What is motion? What is essential to me as an individual? What would an Englishman born in Jamaica think about ice when he went to England for the first time? What is a concrete term? Locke tackles many such questions in this third book. Book IV is Of Knowledge and Probability. - Summary by Craig Campbell
Chapters (15)
1Chapter I. Of Words or Language in General
2Chapter II Of The Signification Of Words
3Chapter III Of General Terms
4Chapter IV Of The Names Of Simple Ideas
5Chapter V Of The Names Of Mixed Modes And Relations
6Chapter VI Of The Names Of Substances Part One
7Chapter VI Of The Names Of Substances Part Two
8Chapter VI Of The Names Of Substances Part Three
9Chapter VII Of Particles
10Chapter VIII Of Abstract And Concrete Terms
11Chapter IX Of The Imperfection Of Words
12Chapter X Of The Abuse Of Words Part One
13Chapter X Of The Abuse Of Words Part Two
14Chapter XI Of The Remedies Of The Foregoing Imperfections And Abuses Of Words Part One
15Chapter XI Of The Remedies Of The Foregoing Imperfections And Abuses Of Words Part Two
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