Q Sect 29. 30. 31. 32. Show that this is one of the primary principles of our mental asso ciations. Illustrate the law. Mention the incident related by Locke. Repeat the remark of Shakspeare. CHAPTER VI. 1. 147 Repeat the four secondary laws of mental association. Show that they are not of minor importance. 2. 3. To what are the primary and secondary laws compared? 4. 148. Repeat the first law of lapse of time. What apparent exception to this law is mentioned? What two remarks are made on this point? 8. 149. Repeat the law of repetition, and illustrate. 9. What is said of the operation of this law in particular arts and professions? 10. 150. Repeat the law of coexistent emotion. 11. 12. Why are bright objects more readily recalled than faint ones? Why are those events in our history that were attended with great joy or sorrow longest remembered? 13. 151. In what respect are there original differences in the mental consti. tution of men? 14. 15. 16. In what channel do the associations of the great mass of mankind What original differences are often seen in men? Illustrate. 17. 152. What two classes of persons are spoken of here as originally dif ferent? 18. 19. 20. How does Milton illustrate the difference? What other thing is mentioned as modifying our trains of thought? CHAPTER VII. 1. 153. Why is the subject of memory taken up after that of association? To what is memory essential? Is it a simple or complex action of the intellectual principle? What is meant by this? Illustrate the distinction between our conceptions and memory. 8. 154. In what cases is our belief controlled by our remembrances? How do we know when to rely on our memory? 9. 10. What would be our condition without such a reliance? 11. 155. What is remarked of the ability to remember? Relate several instances of great memory. What kind of memory prevails among uneducated people? 16. 157. How is this illustrated by Shakspeare? 17. 158. What is philosophic memory? 20. 159. Under what two forms does every department of science present 21. 22 itself to our notice? Which form does the circumstantial memory rapidly embrace 1 23. 160 What is intentional recollection? Qu. Sect. 24. 25. 26. 27. 161. 28. 162. 29. QUESTIONS. Are our trains of associated throught voluntary? How do we set about to recall any circumstances which we wish Give the illustration furnished by Dr. Beattie. 30. 163. What are the two prominent marks of a good memory? 31. 32. Do men of philosophic minds usually possess a ready memory? 33, 164. The first direction for improving the memory? 34. 35 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 165. 43. 44. The remark of Stewart on this point? The advantage of always endeavoring to understand what we study? Two advantages of studying geography with maps, etc.? Mention an instance of the utter violation of this rule. 45. 166. What other help to memory is here noticed? 46. 47. What remark is made of Dr. Johnson on this point? CHAPTER VIII. 1. 167. What opinion of Lord Bacon is here noticed? What does our experience teach us on this point? 7. 168. On what does the ability of the mind to restore its past experiences depend? 8. 9. 10. What admitted facts render this probable? What important views do these facts confirm? What is the proximate cause of the great acceleration of the intel lectual acts in cases of drowning? 11. 169. What fact is stated of the influence of disease on the mind? 12. 170. State the facts related of the American traveler. 13. 171. State those related of the young German woman. 14. What inferences did Coleridge draw from this instance? 15. 172. What is implied in the term education? 16. 17. 18. 20. What is said of the effect of a single remark? What effect should such a consideration have on us? Why is it so important to introduce truth and right principles into the mind of a child? 19. 173. What other practical remark is suggested by these considerations? What objection has been raised to the Scriptural doctrine of a final judgment? 21. 22. 23. What gives it all its plausibility? Can the power of reminiscence ever die? Qa Sect. CHAPTER IX. 1. 174. To what are we indebted for our knowledge of the operaticns of the faculty of reasoning? Is reasoning identical with, or involved in, consciousness? What is it that gives us a knowledge of our own existence? What enables us to reason? For what knowledge are we indebted to reason? 8. 17 How is reasoning defined? May a proposition exist in the mind without being expressed in words? What are the parts of a proposition? Define each, and illustrate. How have propositions been divided? Define each, and illustrate. To what are propositions compared? 16. 176 How many propositions are essential to every process of reasoning? Is the arrangement of propositions arbitrary? Are they brought into existence by an act of volition? By what are they suggested? 20. 177 Give an illustration of the preceding statement. Illustrate the manner in which this consecution of propositions takes place. What is all the direct voluntary power possessed in such cases? 23. 178. State the grounds of the selection of propositions. How does the mind discover the agreement or disagreement of the propositions presented to it? In what does the difference in the various kinds of reasoning con. sist? 26. 179. On what does reasoning necessarily proceed? Are the propositions assumed always expressed? 30. 180. What things are assumed in reasoning? 31. 181. Do all persons possess the faculty of reasoning to the same extent? On what does the difference depend? Three things. Why is knowledge necessary? Why is premeditation essential to one who would reason well on any subject? 35. 182. What is said of the power of habit in reasoning? and illustrate. 36. 183. The great instrument of reasoning? What is said of persons who are suddenly called upon to state their arguments in public debate? What is said of Oliver Cromwell? 39 184. Give another illustration. 41. To what is this perplexity often owing? What are these mental habits referred to? CHAPTER X. 1. 185. In what respects does demonstrative reasoning differ from every other species of reasoning? What are the subjects of it? 8. 3. What are abstract ideas? 5. What are the subjects of moral reasoning? and illustrate. 6. 186. What is essential to every process of reasoning? Z z 2 Qu. Sect 9. 10. QUESTIONS. What are the preliminary truths in demonstrative reasoning? Mention certain general facts in natural philosophy which may be considered as first principles. What are axioms? and illustrate. Can we complete a demonstration by their assistance alone? 11. 187. Why is it necessary, in demonstrations, to consider but one side of a question? and illustrate. 12. How does this differ from moral reasoning? and illustrate. 13. 183. Do demonstrations admit of different degrees of belief? Show why they can not. 14. 15. What is the case in moral reasoning, and why? 16. 189. What is the proper use of diagrams in demonstrations? 17. 18. 19. 20. In what respect does demonstrative reasoning resemble every othe kind of reasoning? How does it appear that diagrams are not essentially necessary in What remark does Cudworth make on this subject? CHAPTER X1. 1. 190. The subjects of moral reasoning? 2. 3. 4. Does skill in demonstrative reasoning make one a good reasoner ir moral subjects also? The effect of demonstrative reasoning on the mind? 5. 191. Point out the resemblance and dissimilarity between this and mora reasoning. 6. 7. 8. 9. Which kind is attended with knowledge? Are the conclusions from moral reasoning necessarily doubtful? What is moral certainty ? 10. 192. What do we mean by analogy? What is analogical reasoning? Illustrate. 11. 12. 13. The proper use of such reasoning? 14. 193. What is inductive reasoning? 15. 16. 17. Illustrate. What is said of the belief which attends such reasoning? 18. 194. What is remarked of accumulated arguments in demonstrations? 1. 195. What is logic? and its object? 2. 196. The first direction in relation to reasoning? What is the opposite of a desire of the truth? What are the great enemies of truth? 3. 4 5. Why is this rule of importance particularly in public debate? In what ways is this rule often disregarded? The practice of special pleaders? At what should dialecticians aim? 10. 193. The third rule? 11. 12. 13. What kind of evidence have we when the inquiry is one of a purely abstract nature? What in the examination of material bodies? In which is the conclusion most relied on? ta. Sect. 14. 15. 16. 17. CALIFORNI In what cases have we the evidence of induction? 18. 199. What is a sophism? 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 200. 27. What is said of them? Mention four species of sophism. Explain the ignoratio elenchi, and illustrate. Explain and illustrate the petitio principii. Explain the non causa pro causa, and illustrate. What further direction is given? What remark is made of the meaning of words in every language} 28. 201. What other sophism is common? 29. 30. 31. In what does this fallacy consist? What is said of Alexander and Charles XII.? What of Cæsar and Catiline? 32. 202. What remark is here made of adherence to our opinions?. 33. Why should we not always give up an opinion when objections are raised which we can not answer? 34 203. What is said of contending for victory instead of truth? How is it often done? 35. 36. 37. 38. What remark has been made of persons that addict themselves to this practice? The cause of such a result? What is said of Chillingworth? CHAPTER XIII. 1. 204. Under what general head does imagination come? With what are we apt to associate the exercises of the imagination? What is said of one that possesses a creative and well-sustained imagination? 4. 205. What further remark is made of the imagination? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. What does D'Alembert say of it? What does he say of Archimedes? In what three respects do the deductive and imaginative powers resemble each other? In what do they differ? What are the objects of each ? Contrast the two. 11. 206. What is imagination? 12. 13. 14. 15. What are the materials from which new creations are made? How is the difference between the imagination of the mass of man- Why do we speak of imagination as a complex operation of the mind? 16. 207. State in full the process of the mind in the creations of the imagin. ation. 17. 208. What name do we give to this complex state, or series of states of 18. 19. 20. the mind? Why is it important to have a single term expressive of it? 21. 209. The illustration of Dr. Reid? 22. 210. What question naturally suggests itself here? 23. 21 How is it answered? Is any voluntary power exercised over our conceptions? |