metaphysicians come to acknowledge this, it is of no use trying to establish a philosophy of fundamental principles fitted to stay the mind and to meet the errors of the day.

Though I have made few alterations or additions in this third edition, I have subjected the work throughout to a searching revision.

PRINCETON, N.J., January, 1872.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE NATURE OF THE INTUITIVE

CONVICTIONS OF THE MIND.

SECT. II. No Innate Abstract, or General Notions.......

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SECT. III. No A Priori Forms imposed by the mind on Objects.......

SECT. IV. The Intuitions are not immediately before Consciousness as Laws

or Principles...

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CHAPTER II.

POSITIVE PROPOSITIONS.

SECT. I. There are Intuitive Principles operating in the Mind...........

SECT. II. The Native Convictions of the Mind are of the Nature of Percep-

tions or Intuitions...

SECT. III. Intuitive Convictions rise on the Contemplation of Objects pre-

sented or represented to the Mind......

(ix)

SECT IV. The Intuitions of the Mind are primarily directed to Individual

Objects......

SECT. V. The Individual Intuitive Convictions can be generalized into
Maxims, and these are entitled to be represented as Philo-
sophic Principles.....

SECT. п. Different Aspects of Intuitions, and their Theoretical Char-

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acters....

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SECT. III. Certain Misapprehensions in regard to the Character of Intuitive

SECT. 1. The Spontaneous and Refiex Use of Intuitive Principles..

SECT. II. Sources of Error in Metaphysical Speculation......

SECT III. Conditions of the Legitimacy of the Appeal to Intuitive Prin-

ciples..

SECT. IV. Method of Investigating and Interpreting our Intuitions......

SECT. V. What Explanation can be given of the Intuitions of the Mind...

CHAPTER III.

(SUPPLEMENTARY.)—BRIEF CRITICAL REVIEW OF OPINIONS

IN REGARD TO INTUITIVE TRUTHS... . . .

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PART SECOND.

PARTICULAR EXAMINATION OF THE INTUITIONS.

BOOK I.

PRIMITIVE COGNITIONS.

CHAPTER I.

BODY AND SPIRIT.

SECT. 1. The Mind begins its Intelligent Acts with Knowledge. The

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Simple Cognitive Powers....

101

SECT. II. Our Intuitive Cognitions of Body..

103

SECT. III. Some Distinctions to be attended to in regard to our Cog-

nition of Body.

113

SECT. IV. (Supplementary.)—Brief Historical Sketch of Opinions as to the

Veracity of the Senses....

123

SECT. v. The Qualities of Matter known by Intuition..

SECT. VI. Our Intuitive Cognition of Self or of Spirit..

125

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CHAPTER II.

SECT.

ANALYSIS OF OUR PRIMITIVE COGNITIONS.

1. (Preliminary.)-On the Nature of Abstraction and Generaliza-

SECT. x. (Supplementary.)—The Various Kinds of Power known by Ex-

THE EXTENT, TESTS, AND POWER OF OUR NATIVE BELIEFS....

BOOK III.

PRIMITIVE JUDGMENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THEIR GENERAL NATURE, AND A CLASSIFICATION OF THEM.

CHAPTER II.

RELATIONS INTUITIVELY OBSERVED BY THE MIND.

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208

SECT. 1. Convictions as to the Nature of Moral Good..

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