1. That all our ideas are derived from external objects, by means of the senses alone, and are merely repetitions of our sensible impressions.
2. That as nothing exists out of the mind but matter and motion, so the mind itself, with all its operations, is nothing but matter and motion.
3. That thoughts are single, or that we can have only one idea at a time; in other words, that there are no complex ideas in the mind.
4. That we have no general or abstract ideas.
5. That the only principle of connection between one idea and another is association, or their previous connection in sense.
6. That reason and understanding are resolvable entirely into the mechanism of language.
7. and 8. That the sense of pleasure and pain is the sole spring of action, and self-interest the source of all our affections.
9. That the mind acts from necessity, and consequently is not a moral or accountable agent.
[The manner of stating and reasoning on this last point, viz. the moral and practical consequences of the doctrine of necessity is the only circumstance of importance, in which the modern philosophers differ from Hobbes.]
10. That there is no such thing as genius, or a difference in the natural capacities or dispositions of men, the mind being originally alike passive to all impressions, and becoming whatever it is from circumstances &c., &c.