PART II.

OF THE ORIGIN OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF FACTS RE-
LATING BOTH TO MATTER AND MIND.

SECTION I.

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION.

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Of the Primary and Secondary Properties of Matter
Knowledge of the Properties of Matter by the Senses
Of our Knowledge of Distance and Magnitude
Apparent improvement of some Senses after loss of others
Of our Knowledge of the Nature of Perception
Remarkable Influence of Attention

Habits of Attention and Inattention

Of False Perceptions

SECTION II.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND REFLECTION.

Of the Knowledge which we derive from Consciousness and Re-

flection .

1. The Knowledge of our Mental Processes

2. Compound Notions,-as Time, Cause, Motion

3. First Truths, or Intuitive Articles of Belief

SECTION III.

TESTIMONY.

Rules by which we estimate the Credibility of Testimony

Confidence in Testimony in regard to statements at variance

with our Personal Observation or Experience.

Objections which have been made to the Reception of such State-

ments on the Evidence of Testimony

Fallacy of these Objections, and Grounds of our Confidence in

Testimony

Distinction between Events which are marvellous and those

which are miraculous

Moral Probability of Miracles

Miracles not a violation of the established order of Nature, but
referable to an agency altogether new and peculiar

Grounds on which we estimate the Credibility of Testimony in

regard to unusual or miraculous events

PART III.

OF THE INTELLECTUAL OPERATIONS.

SECTION I.

MEMORY.

Attention.

Association

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1. Natural or Philosophical Association

2. Local or Incidental Association

3. Arbitrary or Fictitious Association

Artificial Memory

Important Application of the Principle of Arbitrary

Association in Commemorative Rites

Conception, or the Memory of Perceptions

Of the Culture and Improvement of Attention, Reflection, and

Memory

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Of the Influence of Disease upon Attention and Memory

Of Extensive Cerebral Disease, without Sensible Derangement

cf the Mental Functions

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Influence of the Facts connected with this subject in

showing the Independent Existence of the Thinking

Nature and Applications of Imagination.

Various kinds of Artificial Combination to which it is applicable

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Importance of a Proper Application of it in the Formation of

Character

Effects of Fictitious Narrative

Effects of an ill-regulated Imagination

SECTION IV.

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REASON OR JUDGMENT.

Analysis of the Mental Process of which Reason consists

Applications of Reason in the Investigations of Science, the

Affairs of Common Life, and the Formation of Opinions

Man's Responsibility for his Belief

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Farther Division of the Subject.-Brief Outline of the System of

Dr. Brown

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§ I. OF THE USE OF REASON IN THE INVESTIGATION OF

TRUTH.

Of First Truths, or Intuitive Articles of Belief, as the Founda

tion of all Reasoning

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1. A Belief in our own Existence, and of Mind as some-

thing distinct from the Body

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2. A Confidence in the Information furnished by our

Senses

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3. A Confidence in our Mental Operations

4. A Belief of our Personal Identity

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5. A Conviction that every Event must have a Cause

6. A Confidence in the Uniformity of Nature

Uniformity of Physical Relations

Uniformity of Moral Relations

Application to the Question of Liberty and Ne-

cessity

Of the Nature and Importance of First Truths, and Sophisms

connected with attempts to reason against them

Laws of Investigation in any Department of Knowledge

1. Of collecting Facts

2. Of tracing the Relation of Cause and Effect

3. Of deducing General Principles

Of Fallacies in Investigation

Fallacies in regard to Facts

False Induction

False Reasoning

Of the Nature of Reasoning

of the Syllogism and its Uses

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Of the Cautions in examining a Process of Reasoning or Inves.

tigation.

Distinction between a Process of Reasoning and a Process of In-

vestigation

Of Fallacies in Reasoning

Of Mathematical Reasoning

Difference between the Sound Exercise of Judgment and the

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Influence of Passion, or State of Moral Feelings

Importance of a well-regulated Judgment

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§ II.—OF THE USE OF REASON IN CORRECTING THE IMPRESSIONS OF

THE MIND IN REGARD TO EXTERNAL THINGS.

2. Old Associations excited by Bodily Sensations

3. Old Associations recalled by a Process of the

Mind itself

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4. Mental Emotions imbodied into Dreams

Dreams consist chiefly of Real Objects of Concep-

tion

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Operations of an Intellectual Character in Dreams

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II. SOMNAMBULISM

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Various degrees of this Affection.

Remarkable Condition, commonly called Double Con-

sciousness

III. INSANITY

Peculiar Condition of the Mind constituting Insanity

Various Modifications of it, from Eccentricity to Ma-

nia

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Great Activity of the Mental Powers in many Cases

Remarkable Loss of Recent Impressions, and sudden

Revival of them on Recovery

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Hallucination confined to a single Point

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Probable Origin of the Peculiar Hallucinations in dif-

ferent cases of Insanity

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5. Undefined Impression of the new and peculiar

2. Old Associations

3. Old Fictions of the Imagination

4. Bodily Feelings.

Condition of the Mental Powers

Origin and Causes of Insanity

Melancholia-Propensity to Suicide

Cautions in deciding on slight or suspected Case.
Liability of the Insane to Punishment

Moral Treatment of Insanity

Of Idiocy-Difference between it and Insanity

Cretinism

IV. SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS.

Various Forms and Sources of them

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PART IV.

VIEW OF THE QUALITIES AND ACQUIREMENTS

WHICH CONSTITUTE A WELL REGULATED