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Index for Chapter XI

Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind

1. No knowledge without discernment.
2. The difference of wit and judgment.
3. Clearness done hinders confusion.
4. Comparing.
5. Brutes compare but imperfectly.
6. Compounding.
7. Brutes compound but little.
8. Naming.
9. Abstraction.
10. Brutes abstract not.
11. Brutes abstract not, yet are not bare machines.
12. Idiots and madmen.
13. Difference between idiots and madmen.
14. Method followed in this explication of faculties.
15. The true beginning of human knowledge.
16. Appeal to experience.
17. Dark room.


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