The works of Thomas Reid, with selections from his unpublished letters. Preface, notes and suppl. dissertations by sir W. Hamilton. Prefixed, Stewart's Account of the life and writings of Reid

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OF TASTING
115
OF SEEING
132
Of the Process of Nature in perception
186
Of the Signs by which we learn to perceive Distance from the eye
188
Of the Signs used in other acquired perceptions
193
Of the Analogy between Perception and the credit we give to Human Testimony
194
CHAPTER VIICONCLUSION Containing Reflections upon the opinions of Philosophers on this subject
201
BESSAYS ON THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF
213
DEDICATION
215
PREFACE
216
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER I Explication of Words
219
Principles taken for granted
230
Of Hypotheses
234
Of Analogy
236
Of the proper means of Knowing the operations of the mind
238
Of the difficulty of Attending to the operations of our own minds
240
Division of the powers of the mind
242
of Social and Solitary operations of mind
244
ESSAY IIOF THE POWERS WE HAVE BY MEANS OF OUR EXTERNAL SENSES СВАРТЕР I Of the Organs of Sense
245
Of the Impressions on the organs nerves and brain
248
False Conclusions drawn from the impressions before mentioned
253
Of Perception
258
What it is to Account for a Phænomenon in Nature
260
Sentiments of Philosophers about the Perceptions of External objects and first of the theory of Father Malebranche
262
Of the Common Theory of Perception and of the sentiments of the Peripatetics and of Des Cartes
267
The sentiments of Mr Locke
275
The sentiments of Bishop Berkeley
280
Bishop Berkeleys sentiments of the nature of Ideas
287
The sentiments of Mr Hume
292
The sentiments of Anthony Arnauld
295
Reflections on the Common Theory of Ideas
298
Account of the system of Leibnitz
306
Of Sensation
310

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Strana 19 - Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion are in some measure dependent on the science of man, since they lie under the cognizance of men and are judged of by their powers and faculties.
Strana 279 - ... which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Strana 279 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
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Strana 414 - ... all general ideas are nothing but particular ones annexed to a certain term, which gives them a more extensive signification, and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals, which are similar to them. As I look upon this to be one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters...
Strana 371 - The dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Strana 426 - And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Strana 44 - David littering up your house more and more with all the birds of the air, the beasts of the field...
Strana 143 - I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged -by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in manner. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers, and is, indeed, one of the finest speculations in that science, if the English reader would...
Strana 294 - I find I can excite ideas in my mind at pleasure, and vary and shift the scene as oft as I think fit. It is no more than willing, and straightway this or that idea arises in my fancy; and by the same power it is obliterated and makes way for another.

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