{"collection":"phi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/phi/spinoza/under/tiu01.htm","path":"phi/spinoza/under/tiu01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/phi/spinoza/under/tiu01.htm","text":"On the Improvement of Understanding, by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883]\n1 On the Improvement of the Understanding\n3 Of the ordinary objects of men's desires\n12 Of the true and final good\n17 Certain rules of life\n19 Of the four modes of perception\n25 Of the best mode of perception\n33 Of the instruments of the intellect, or true ideas\n43 Answers to objections\nFirst part of method:\n50 Distinction of true ideas from fictitious ideas\n64 And from false ideas\n77 Of doubt\n81 Of memory and forgetfulness\n86 Mental hindrances from words\u2014and from the popular confusion of ready imagination with distinct understanding.\nSecond part of method:\n91 Its object, the acquisition of clear and distinct ideas\n94 Its means, good definitions Conditions of definition\n107 How to define understanding","title":"On the Improvement of Understanding: Table Of Contents","type":"page"}