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Of certain indefinite feelings sometimes ascribed to the touch
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Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified
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CHAPTER VI
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Statement of the mode or process in visual perception
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Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight
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The idea of extension not originally from sight
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Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight
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Illustration of the subject from the blind
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Measurements of magnitude by the
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Of objects seen in a mist
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Of the estimation of distances by sight
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Signs by means of which we estimate distance by sight
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Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects
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Of objects seen on the ocean
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CHAPTER VII
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Of habit in relation to the hearing
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Application of habit to the touch
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Other striking instances of habits of touch
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Habits considered in relation to the sight
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Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of power
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Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts
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Notice of some facts which favour the above doctrine 58 Additional illustrations of Mr Stewarts doctrine 56 The law of habit considered in reference ...
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Of conceptions of objects of sight
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Of the influence of habit on our conceptions
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Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63 Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description
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Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief
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Conceptions which are joined with perceptions
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Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations
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CHAPTER IX
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Simple mental states not susceptible of definition
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Simple mental states representative of a reality
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Origin of complex notions and their relation to simple
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Supposed complexness without the antecedence of simple feelings
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Complex notions of external origin
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Instances of particular abstract ideas
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Mental process in separating and abstracting them
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General abstract notions the same with genera and species
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Process in classification or the forming of genera and species
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Early classifications sometimes incorrect
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Of the nature of general abstract ideas
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The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers c
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Of the speculations of philosophers and others
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CHAPTER XI
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Of different degrees of attention
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Dependence of memory on attention
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Of exercising attention in reading
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Alleged inability to command the attention
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CHAPTER XII
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Dreams are often caused by our sensations
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Explanation of the incoherency of dreams 1st cause
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Apparent reality of dreams 1st cause
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Apparent reality of dreams 2d cause
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Of our estimate of time in dreaming
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Explanation of the preceding statements
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PART II
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CHAPTER I
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Declaration of Locke that the soul has knowledge in itself
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CHAPTER II
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of the nature of inity and the origin of that notion
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Of the origin of the idea of power
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Consciousnes a ground or law of belief
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DEMONSTRATIVE REASONING
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Secondary laws and their connexion with the primary
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Of the influence of lapse of time
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Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect
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Of the secondary law of coexistent emotion
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Original difference in the mental constitution
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The foregoing as applicable to the sensibilities
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Remarks on the general nature of memory
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Of memory as a ground or law of belief
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Contrast the second general or primary law
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based on the relations of contiguity in time and place
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Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory
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Of philosophic memory or that species of memory which is based on other relations than those of contiguity
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Illustrations of philosophic memory
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Of that species of memory called intentional recollection
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Nature of intentional recollection 162 Instance illustrative of the preceding statements
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Marks of a good memory
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Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory 165 Further directions for the improvement of the memory
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Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory
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CHAPTER VIII
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Of the subjects of demonstrative reasoning
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Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative rescring
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The opposites of demonstrative reasonings absurd
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Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief
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Of reasoning from analogy
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Of combined or accumulated arguments
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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 t...
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PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS IN REASONING 195 Rules relating to the practice of reasoning 196 Of being influenced in reasoning by a love of the tr...
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Care to be used in correctly stating the subject of discussion
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Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject 199 Reject the aid of false arguments or sophisms
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Fallacia equivocationis or the use of equivocal terms and phrases
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Of the sophism of estimating actions and character from the cir cumstances of success merely
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Illustration of the subject from Milton 212 The creations of imagination not entirely voluntary
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Illustration of the statements of the preceding section
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On the utility of the faculty of the imagination
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Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning
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CHAPTER XIV
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Disordered intellectual action as connected with the body 217 Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218 Of the less permanent excited...
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Illustrations of this mental disorder
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Characteristics of emotions of beauty
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Of what is meant by beautiful objects
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Of the distinction between beautiful and other objects
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Grounds or occasions of emotions of beauty various
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All objects not equally fitted to cause these emotions
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A susceptibility of emotions of beauty an ultimate principle of
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DIVISION II
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Classification of the natural sensibilities
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The character of emotions changes so as to comform to that
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mental constitution
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Original or intrinsic beauty The circle 260 Of the beauty of straight and angular forms
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Of square pyramidal and triangular forms
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Of the original or intrinsic beauty of colours
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Further illustrations of the original beauty of colours
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Of sounds considered as a source of beauty 284
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Illustrations of the original beauty of sounds
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Further instances of the original beauty of sounds 290 267 The permanency of musical power dependent on its being intrinsic
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Of motion as an element of beauty
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Explanation of the beauty of motion from Kaimes
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CHAPTER III
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Objects may become beautiful by association merely
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Further illustrations of associated feelings
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Instances of national associations
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The sources of associated beauty coincident with those of human
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Summary of views in regard to the beautiful
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CHAPTER IV
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The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various
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Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity 279 Great height an element or occasion of sublimity
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Of depth in connexion with the sublime
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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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Indications of power accompanied by emotions of the sublime
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Of the original or primary sublimity of objects 286 Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects
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Influence of association on emotions of sublimity
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CHAPTER V
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General nature of emo ons of the ludicrous 289 Occasions of emotions of the ludicrous
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Of what is understood by wit 291 Of wit as it consists in burlesque or in debasing objects
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Of wit when employed in aggrandizing objects
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Of the character and occasions of humour
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Of the practical utility of feelings of the ludicrous
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Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity
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Of the moral character of the desire of power
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Other illustrations of the existence of this principle
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Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment
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CHAPTER VI
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Illustrations of the filial affection
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Fection
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Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude
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Of patriotism or love of country
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CHAPTER VII
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Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle
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Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition
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PART II
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Of objects of moral approval and disapproval
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CHAPTER III
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Of their authoritative and enforcing nature
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The nature of conscience considered as a uniform principle of
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Of the importance in a moral point of view of adopting correct
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Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites
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Section Pago 428 Disordered action of the principle of selfpreservation
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Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle
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Disordered action of imitativeness or the principle of imitation
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Disordered action of the principle of sociality
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Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity
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Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem
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Disordered action of the desire of power
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CHAPTER II
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Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation
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Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poorhouse of Harlem
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Other instances of this species of imitation
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CHAPTER III
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Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind
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Insanity of the affections or passions
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Of the mental disease termed hypochondriasis
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Of intermissions of hypochondriasis and of its remedies
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Disordered action of the passion of fear
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CHAPTER IV
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Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered con science
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Of natural or congenital moral derangement
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Of moral accountabili y in cases of natural or congenital moral derangement
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REASONING
Reasoning a source of ideas and knowledge 175 Definition of reasoning and of propositions 176 Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning 177 Ill...
Further considerations on this subject 179 Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo sitions 194 195 196 181 Of differences i...
Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression 184 Illustration of the foregoing section 199 200
First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina of the eye 235
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