PRELIMINARY ESSAY

ON THE

INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF MAN:

BY

THOMAS REID, D.D.

WITH

NOTES, SECTIONAL HEADINGS, QUESTIONS FOR
SELF-EXAMINATION, AND SYNOPTICAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

The greatest part of the questions and controversies that

perplex mankind are caused by the doubtful and uncertain

use of words. -LOCKE.

GLASGOW :

W. S. SIME, SAUCHIEHALL STREET.

LONDON: HOULSTON & SONS.

1884.

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Sec. 1. A chief impediment to the progress of know-

ledge

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9

2. Cause of the progress of mathematical sciences 10

3. The foundations of all science

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ib.

ib.

ib.

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4. All words do not admit of being defined

5. Words which cannot be logically defined

6. Individuals, the most general terms, and cer-

tain species cannot be logically defined

7. Remarkable defect of the Aristotleian philo-
sophy

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8. Terms peculiar to pneumatology are often

incapable of definition

9. The mind active, according to human judgment 16

10. Faculties, habits, capacity

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12. Original signification of "perception" and its

analogical application

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13. Abuse of the word "perception" by Hume

14. "Conception" distinguished from all other

operations of the mind ...

15. Another signification of the same words

16. Ambiguity in their meanings avoided

17. Distinction between the operations of the

18. This distinction confounded by Hume

19. "Idea" used in a twofold sense

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20. The three first principles of the Pythagoreans 30

21. How far the "latter" differ from the "elder"