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[Methods], [Wollaston]—words are placed in square brackets which are not actually used by the author: thus Wollaston is not referred to by name.

26 f.=page 26 and following pages.

The references have been grouped under sections and sub-sections simply for convenience of reference: the sections do not correspond to any divisions in the Treatise, and have nothing to do with Hume's own sections.

hii produces hanging indent for whole index Abilities, natural—606 f.; distinguished from moral virtues (q.v.) because invariable by art or praise, and so naturally neglected by politicians, 609.

Abstract—ideas, 17 f.; abstraction does not involve separation, 18, 43; illustration from idea of space, 34; and time, 35; abstract idea of power, 161; of existence, 623.

Accession—and property, 509 f.

Accidents—fiction of, 222.

Action—thought cannot be described as an action any more than as a modification of the soul, 245-6 (c£ 632-3); internal actions opposed to external objects, 465; all actions artificial, 475.

Actions—and truth; actions 'original facts and realities complete in themselves,’ and 'cannot be pronounced either true or false, nor be either contrary or conformable to reason,' 458 (cf. 415); except in an improper sense as obliquely caused by or causing a false judgment, 459.

Actions—and will (v. Will, Necessity)—constant union between motives and actions produces inference from one to the other, in spite of the acknowledged capriciousness of human actions, 401 f., 411, 632-3 (cf. 575); necessity of any action not a quality in the agent, but a determination of the mind of a spectator, 408; actions more voluntary than judgments, but we have no more liberty in the one than in the other, 609.