Qu. Sect. 24. 134. How do time and place resemble each other? Are our notions of time relative or absolute ? Under what aspect is all time contemplated? 25. 26. 27. 28. What do we mean when we say of any event, it happer ed on such a day, say July 4th, 1776? and illustrate. Under what head, then, may all dates be classed? 29. 135. What is meant by relations of possession? 30. 31. 32 33. 34. How soon do we learn this relation? and illustrate. What class of words have their origin here? Show that the verb "to be" often expresses this relation. 35. 136. What does the notion of cause and effect, as it first exists in the mind, include? 36. 37. 38. What constitutes the full notion of cause? What of effect? To what do we give the name of events? 39. 137. Mention several terms in which the relation of cause and effect is embodied, and illustrate. 40. 138. What connection has relative suggestion with reasoning in general? What relations are embraced in demonstrative reasoning? What in moral reasoning? 41. 42. CHAPTER V. 1. 139. Why do we take up the subject of association and memory before that of the reasoning powers? 5. 141. Do we know why it is that our thoughts and feelings succeed one another in a regular train? 6. 7. 8. What is the extent of our knowledge on this subject? What is meant by the laws of association? Repeat the most important of them. 9. 142. What do we mean by saying that new trains of ideas and new emo Is the association which is founded on resemblance limited to objects of sight? Repeat the poetry on this subject. 15. 143. Show in what way resemblance operates as an associating princi 16. 17. 18. 19. 144. 20. 21. ple. Give several illustrations of this. Repeat the comparison of Akenside. Why do we often speak of nature as animated, etc.? What is the law of contrast? Give the outlines of Count Lemaistre's story of the leper. 22. 145. The law of contiguity? and illustrate. 23, 24. 25. 26. 27. When we speak of the crucifixion of our Savior, what thoughts are suggested to our minds? What when the American Revolution is named? Which of the primary laws of association is the most extensive in its influence? What forms the basis of the calendar of the mass o men? Illustrate. 98 146. The law of cause and effect? Q Sect Show that this is one of the primary principles of our mental asso ciations. Mention the incident related by Locke. 29. 30. Illustrate the law. 31. 32. Repeat the remark of Shakspeare. CHAPTER VI. 1. 147 Repeat the four secondary laws of mental association. Show that they are not of minor importance. 2. 3. To what are the primary and secondary laws compared? 4. 148. Repeat the first law of lapse of time. What apparent exception to this law is mentioned? 8. 149. Repeat the law of repetition, and illustrate. 9. What is said of the operation of this law in particular arts and professions? 10. 150. Repeat the law of coexistent emotion. 11. 12. Why are bright objects more readily recalled than faint ones? Why are those events in our history that were attended with great joy or sorrow longest remembered? 13. 151. In what respect are there original differences in the mental constitution of men? 14. 15. 16. In what channel do the associations of the great mass of mankind What original differences are often seen in men? Illustrate. 17. 152. What two classes of persons are spoken of here as originally dif 18. 19. 20. ferent? How does Milton illustrate the difference? What other thing is mentioned as modifying our trains of thought? CHAPTER VII. 1. 153. Why is the subject of memory taken up after that of association? To what is memory essential? Is it a simple or complex action of the intellectual principle? What is meant by this? Illustrate the distinction between our conceptions and memory. 8. 154. In what cases is our belief controlled by our remembrances? How do we know when to rely on our memory? 9. 10. What would be our condition without such a reliance? 11. 155. What is remarked of the ability to remember? Relate several instances of great memory. What kind of memory prevails among uneducated people? 16. 157. How is this illustrated by Shakspeare? 17. 158. What is philosophic memory? 20. 159. Under what two forms does every department of science present itself to our notice? 21, 22. Which form does the circumstantial memory rapidly embrace 23. 160. What is intentional recollection? Qu. Sect. 24. 25. 26. Are our trains of associated thought voluntary? Can we will to remember any particular event? In what does our chief power ia quickening and strengthening the memory consist? 27. 161. How do we set about to recall any circumstances which we wish to remember? Two ways. 28. 162. Give the illustration furnished by Dr. Beattie. 29. How else are these views illustrated? 30. 163. What are the two prominent marks of a good memory? 31. 32. To what is tenacity of memory compared? Do men of philosophic minds usually possess a ready memory? 33. 164. The first direction for improving the memory? 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 165. 43. 44. The remark of Stewart on this point? The advantage of always endeavoring to understand what we study? The second direction, etc.? Illustrate the benefit of such classification. The third direction? How illustrated? Two advantages of studying geography with maps, etc.? Give another illustration of this rule in the reading of history. Mention an instance of the utter violation of this rule. 45. 166. What other help to memory is here noticed? 46. 47. What remark is made of Dr. Johnson on this point? Show how it is that a strict regard to truth is a help to memory. CHAPTER VIII. 1. 167. What opinion of Lord Bacon is here noticed? What does our experience teach us on this point? 7. 168. On what does the ability of the mind to restore its past experiencer depend? What admitted facts render this probable? 8. 9. What important views do these facts confirm ? 10. What is the proximate cause of the great acceleration of the intel. lectual acts in cases of drowning? 11. 169. What fact is stated of the influence of disease on the mind? 12. 170. State the facts related of the American traveler. 13. 171. State those related of the young German woman. 14. What inferences did Coleridge draw from this instance? 15. 172. What is implied in the term education? 16. 17. 18. What is said of the effect of a single remark? What effect should such a consideration have on us? Why is it so important to introduce truth and right principles into the mind of a child? 19. 73. What other practical remark is suggested by these considerations? What objection has been raised to the Scriptural doctrine of a final judgment? 20. 21. 22. 23. What gives it all its plausibility? Can the power of reminiscence ever die? Qu. Sect. CHAPTER IX. 1. 174. To what are we indebted for our knowledge of the operations of the 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. faculty of reasoning? Is reasoning identical with, or involved in, consciousness? What is it that gives us a knowledge of our own existence? What enables us to reason? For what knowledge are we indebted to reason? What is the office of reason? 8. 175. How is reasoning defined? 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. What are propositions? May a proposition exist in the mind without being expressed in words? What are the parts of a proposition? How have propositions been divided? To what are propositions compared? 16. 176. How many propositions are essential to every process of reasoning? Is the arrangement of propositions arbitrary? 17. 18. 19. Are they brought into existence by an act of volition? By what are they suggested? 20. 177. Give an illustration of the preceding statement. 21. 22. Illustrate the manner in which this consecution of propositions takes place. What is all the direct voluntary power possessed in such cases? 23. 178. State the grounds of the selection of propositions. 24. 25. How does the mind discover the agreement or disagreement of the propositions presented to it? In what does the difference in the various kinds of reasoning consist? 26. 179. On what does reasoning necessarily proceed? 27. 28. 29. Show that this must be so. Are the propositions assumed always expressed? 30. 180. What things are assumed in reasoning? 31. 181. Do all persons possess the faculty of reasoning to the same extent? On what does the difference depend? Three things. Why is premeditation essential to one who would reason well on any subject? 35. 182. What is said of the power of habit in reasoning? and illustrate. 36. 183. The great instrument of reasoning? 37. 38. What is said of persons who are suddenly called upon to state their arguments in public debate? What is said of Oliver Cromwell? 39 184. Give another illustration. 40 41. To what is this perplexity often owing? What are these mental habits referred to? CHAPTER X. 1. 185. In what respects does demonstrative reasoning differ from every What topics come under this head? What are the subjects of moral reasoning? and illustrate. 3. 186 What is essential to every process of reasoning? Qu. Sect 7. 8. 9. 10. What are the preliminary truths in demonstrative reasoning? Mention certain general facts in natural philosophy which may be considered as first principles. What are axioms? and illustrate. Can we complete a demonstration by their assistance alone? 11. 187. Why is it necessary, in demonstrations, to consider but one side of a question? and illustrate. 12. How does this differ from moral reasoning? and illustrate. 13. 189. Do demonstrations admit of different degrees of belief? 14. 15. Show why they can not. What is the case in moral reasoning, and why? 16. 189. What is the proper use of diagrams in demonstrations? 17. 18. 19. 20. In what respect does demonstrative reasoning resemble every other kind of reasoning? How does it appear that diagrams are not essentially necessary in What remark does Cudworth make on this subject? CHAPTER X1. 1. 190. The subjects of moral reasoning? Show its importance. * R S 2. 3. 4. Does skill in demonstrative reasoning make one a good reasoner in moral subjects also? The effect of demonstrative reasoning on the mind? 5. 191. Point out the resemblance and dissimilarity between this and moral reasoning. 6. 7. 8. 9. Which kind is attended with knowledge? Are the conclusions from moral reasoning necessarily doubtful? What is moral certainty? 10. 192. What do we mean by analogy? 11. 12. 13. What is analogical reasoning? The proper use of such reasoning? 14. 193. What is inductive reasoning? What is said of the belief which attends such reasoning? 18. 194. What is remarked of accumulated arguments in demonstrations? What in moral reasoning? and the grounds of this opinion? Illustrate. 19. 20. CHAPTER XII. 1. 195. What is logic? and its object? 2. 196. The first direction in relation to reasoning? What is the opposite of a desire of the truth? What are the great enemies of truth? 3. 4 5. Why is this rule of importance particularly in public debate? 6. 197. The second rule? 7. 8. 9. In what ways is this rule often disregarded? The practice of special pleaders? At what should dialecticians aim? 10. 198. The third rule? 11. 12. 13. What kind of evidence have we when the inquiry is one of a purely abstract nature? What in the examination of material bodies ? In which is the conclusion most relied on? |