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TRUTHS

BEING A TREATISE ON

METAPHYSICS

BY

JAMES MCCOSH, D. D., LL. D., LITT. D.

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EX-PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, author of METHOD OF DIVINE
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GOVERNMENT," LAWS OF DISCURSIVE THOUGHT," PSYCHOLOGY
of the COGNITIVE POWERS," PSYCHOLOGY OF THE

MOTIVE POWERS" " REALISTIC
PHILOSOPHY"

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1889

LIBRARY

THE PA.STATE

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When, then, anyour fancies
good faith, that metaphysics

metaphysical assumptions

Can be escaped, one is

strongly

tempted to vault

forthwith into the seat
the scomful!

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Bowns. "Metaphysics
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Copyright, 1889,

BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

"Why did God create us
Juctaphysical Beings, anyhow”.
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The Riverside Press, Cambridge:

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

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PREFACE.

EVERY thinking mind has occasion at times to refer to first principles. In this work I have set myself earnestly to inquire what these are; to determine their nature, and to classify and arrange them into a science.

In pursuing this end I have reached a Realistic Philosophy, opposed alike to the Sceptical Philosophy, which has proceeded from Hume, in England, and the Idealistic Philosophy, which has ramified from Kant, in Germany; while I have also departed from the Scottish and higher French Schools, as I hold resolutely that the mind, in its intelligent acts, begins with, and proceeds throughout, on a cognition of things.

If the mind does not assume and start with things, it can never reach realities by any process of reasoning or induction.

This work contains the results of my teaching of very large classes in Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland, and in Princeton College, America, and may be regarded as the cope-stone of what I have been able to do in philosophy.

I have expounded my philosophy in the text, and put the historical and critical disquisitions in smaller print; to be read continuously as carrying on the discussion, or to be reserved for reference

as my readers may find

it best suited to accomplish the end they have in view. PRINCETON, N. J., February, 1889.

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