ABSTRACT
Since it is the Understanding that sets Man above the rest of sensible Beings, and gives him all the Advantage and Dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a Subject, even for its Nobleness, worth our Labour to enquire into. This chapter considers the discerning Faculties of a Man, as they are employed about the Objects, which they have to do with. It is an established Opinion amongst some Men, That there are in the Understanding certain innate Principles. The chapter enquires into the Original of those Ideas, Notions, or whatever else they are called, which a Man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his Mind; and the ways whereby the Understanding comes to be furnished with them. It endeavours to shew, what Knowledge the Understanding hath by those Ideas; and the Certainty, Evidence, and Extent of it.
