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104. The beginning of knowledge is in the senses
195. There may also be internal accessions to knowledge
106. Instances of notions which have an internal origin
107. Other instances of ideas which have an internal origin
CHAPTER II.
ORIGINAL SUGGESTION.
(08. Import of suggestion, and its application in Reid and Stewart
109. Ideas of existence, mind, self-existence, and personal identity
110 of the nature of inity, and the origin of that notion
111. Nature of succession, and origin of the idea of succession.
112. Origin of the notion of duration
113. Illustrations of the nature of duration
114. Of time and its measurements, and of eternity
115. The idea of space not of external origin
116. The idea of space has its origin in suggestion
117. Of the origin of the idea of power.
118. Occasions of the origin of the idea of power.
119. Of the ideas of right and wrong
120. Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit
121. Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion
122. Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas
CHAPTER III.
CONSCIOUSNESS.
123. Consciousness the 2d source of internal knowledge; its nature 136
124. Further remarks on the proper objects of consciousness
125. Consciousnes a ground or law of belief
126. Instances of knowledge developed in consciousness
CHAPTER IV.
RELATIVE SUGGESTION OR JUDGMENT.
127. Of the susceptibility of perceiving or feeling relations.
128 Occasions on which feelings of relation may arise
129. Of the use of correlative terms
130. Of relations of identity and diversity
131. (11.) Relations of degree, and names expressive of them
132. (111.) Of relations of proportion
133. (IV.) Of relations of place or position
134. (v.) Of relations of time
135. (v.) Of ideas of possession
136. (VII.) Of relations of cause and effect
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138
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137. Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect
138. Connexion of relative suggestion with reasoning
CHAPTER V.
ASSOCIATION. (1.) PRIMARY LAWS.
139 Reasons for considering this subject here
140. Meaning of association and illustrations
141. Of the general laws of association
142. Resemblance the first general law of association
143. Of resemblance in the effects produced
144. Contrast the second general or primary law
145. Contiguity the third general or primary law
446. Cause and effect the fourth primary law
CHAPTER VI.
ALSOCIATION. (II.) SECONDARY LAWS.
Bection
147. Secondary laws, and their connexion with the primary.
148. Of the influence of lapse of time
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149. Secondary law of repetition or habit
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150. Of the secondary law of co-existent emotion
169
151. Original difference in the mental constitution
152. The foregoing as applicable to the sensibilities
CHAPTER VII.
MEMORY.
163
157. Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory
158. Of philosophic memory, or that species of memory which is based
on other relations than those of contiguity
based on the relations of contiguity in time and place
153. Remarks on the general nature of memory
154. Of memory as a ground or law of belief
155. Of differences in the strength of memory
156. Of circumstantial memory, or that species of memory which is
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159. Illustrations of philosophic memory
160. Of that species of memory called intentional recollection
161. Nature of intentional recollection.
162. Instance illustrative of the preceding statements
163. Marks of a good memory
164. Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory
165. Further directions for the improvement of the memory
166. Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory
CHAPTER VIII.
DURATION OF MEMORY.
167. Restoration of thoughts and feelings supposed to be forgotten
168. Mental action quickened by influence on the physical system
169. Other instances of quickened mental action, and of a restoration
of thoughts
170. Effect on the memory of a severe attack of fever.
171. Approval and illustrations of these views from Coleridge
172. Application of the principles of this chapter to education
173. Connexion of this doctrine with the final judgment and a future
life
179. Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo-
sitions
195
196
181. Of differences in the power of reasoning
197
182. Of habits of reasoning
198
183 Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression
184 Illustration of the foregoing section
200
CHAPTER X.
DEMONSTRATIVE REASONING
185 Of the subjects of demonstrative reasoning
186. Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative reasoning
187. The opposites of demonstrative reasonings absurd
188 Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief
189. Of the use of liagrams in demonstrations
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CHAPTER XI.
MORAL REASONING.
190. Of the subjects and importance of moral reasoning
191. Of the nature of moral certainty
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192. Of reasoning from analogy
208
193. Of reasoning by induction
209
194. Of combined or accumulated arguments
210
CHAPTER XII.
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS IN REASONING.
195. Rules relating to the practice of reasoning
196. Of being influenced in reasoning by a love of the truth
197. Care to be used in correctly stating the subject of discussion
198. Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject
199. Reject the aid of false arguments or sophisms
200. Fallacia equivocationis, or the use of equivocal terms and phrases 215
201. Of the sophism of estimating actions and character from the c
203. Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth
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204. Imagination an intellectual rather than a sensitive process
205. The imagination closely related to the reasoning power
206. Definition of the power of imagination
207. Process of the mind in the creations of the imagination
208. Further remarks on the same subject
209. Illustration from the writings of Dr. Reid
210. Grounds of the preference of one conception to another
211. Illustration of the subject from Milton
212. The creations of imagination not entirely voluntary
213. Illustration of the statements of the preceding section
214. On the utility of the faculty of the imagination
215. Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning
216. Disordered intellectual action as connected with the body
217. Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general
218. Of the less permanent excited conceptions of sight
219. Of the less permament excited conceptions of sound
220. First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions.—
Morbid sensibility of the retina of the eye
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221. Second cause of permanently excited concep ions or apparitions.
Neglect of periodical blood-letting
222. Methods of relief adopted in this case
223. Third cause of excited conceptions. Attacks of fever
224. Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions. In-
flammation of the brain
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225. Facts having relation to the fourth cause of excited conceptions: 242
226. Fifth cause of apparitions. Hysteria
243
CHAPTER XV.
(11.) INSANITY.
DISORDERED INTELLECTUAL ACTION.
227. Meaning of the term insanity
228. Of disordered or alienated sensations
229. Of disordered or alienated external perception
230. Disordered state or insanity of original suggestion
231. Unsoundness or insanity of consciousness
232. Insanity of the judgment or relative suggestion
233. Disordered or alienated association. Light-headedness
234. Illustrations of this mental disorder
235. Of partial insanity or alienation of the memory
236. Of the power of reasoning in the partially insane
237. Instance of the above form of insanity of reasoning
238. Partial mental alienation by means of the imagination
239. Insanity or alienation of the power of belief
DIVISION II.
THE SENSIBILITIES.
SENTIENT OR SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND.-SENTIMENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE SENSIBILITIES.
240. Reference to the general division of the whole mind
261
241. The action of the sensibilities implies that of the intellect
242. Division of the sensibilities into natural or pathematic, and moral 262
243. The moral and natural sensibilities have different objects
244. The moral sensibilities higher in rank than the natural
245. The moral sensibilities wanting in brutes
246. Classification of the natural sensibilities
247 Classification of the moral sensibilities
PART I
NATURAL OR PATHEMATIC SENSIBILITIES.
NATURAL OR PATHEMATIC SENTIMENTS.
CLASS I.
EMOTIONS OR EMOTIVE STATES OF THE MIND.
CHAPTER I.
NATURE OF THE EMOTIONS.
248. We have a knowledge of emotions by consciousness
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249. The place of emotions, considered in reference to other mental
acts
270
250. The character of emotions changes so as to comform to that of
EMOTIONS OF BEAUTY.
252. Characteristics of emotions of beauty
273
253. Of what is meant by beautiful objects
274
254. Of the distinction between beautiful and other of ects
275
255. Grounds or occasions of emotions of beauty various
276
256 All objects not equally fitted to cause these emotions
277
257. A susceptibility of emotions of beauty an ultimate principle of our
mental constitution
278
258 Remarks on the beauty of forms.-The circle
264. Of sounds considered as a source of beauty.
286
265. Illustrations of the original beauty of sounds
287
266. Further instances of the original beauty of sounds
290
267. The permanency of musical power dependent on its being intrinsic ib.
268. Of motion as an element of beauty
269. Explanation of the beauty of motion from Kaimes
270. Associated beauty implies an antecedent or intrinsic beauty
271. Objects may become beautiful by association merely
272. Further illustrations of associated feelings
273. Instances of national associations
274. The sources of associated beauty coincident with those of human
276. Connexion between beauty and sublimity
277. The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various
278. Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity
279. Great height an element or occasion of sublimity
280. Of depth in connexion with the sublime
281. Of colours in connexion with the sublime
282. Of sounds as furnishing an occasion of sublime emotions
283. Of motion in connexion with the sublime
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284. Indications of power accompanied by emotions of the sublime
285. Of the original or primary sublimity of objects
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286 Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects.
287 Influence of association on emotions of sublimity
b.
EMOTIONS OF THE LUDICROUS
283 Gezeral nature of emo 'ons of the ludicrous
289. Occasions of emotions of the ludicrous
290 Of what is understood by wit
291 Of wit as it consists in burlesque or in debasing objects
292 Of wit when employed in aggrandizing objects
293. Of the character and occasions of humour
294. Of the practical utility of feelings of the ludicrous