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BOSTON:

WELLS AND LILLY, PRINTERS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN various parts of the following Work, references are made to subsequent speculations, which are not contained in it. These speculations it is my intention to resume at some future period but when I consider the extent of my subject, and the many accidents which may divert me from the prosecution of it, I cannot venture so far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promise of a future publication.

Some additional chapters are still wanting, to complete the analysis of the Intellectual Powers. After finishing this, the course of my inquiries would lead me to treat, in the second place, of Man considered as an Active and Moral being; and, thirdly, of Man considered as the member of a Political Society.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.-PART I.-Or the Nature and Object of the Philo

sophy of the Human Mind

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PART II.-SECTION I.-Of the Utility of the Philo

sophy of the Human Mind

II. Continuation of the same Subject

CHAPTER I.-Of the Powers of External Perception

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SECTION 1.-Of the Theories which have been formed by Philosophers, to explain the Manner in which the MIND perceives external Objects

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II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which seem to have given rise
to the common Theories of Perception

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III.-Of Dr. Reid's Speculations on the subject of Perception
IV. Of the Origin of our Knowledge

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SECTION 1.-General Observations on this Faculty of the Mind

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II. Of the Objects of our Thoughts, when we employ general
Terms

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III.-Remarks on the Opinions of some modern Philosophers on
the Subject of the foregoing Section
IV.-Continuation of the same Subject.-Inferences with respect

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to the Use of Language as an Instrument of Thought, and the Errours in Reasoning to which it occasionally gives rise V. Of the purposes to which the powers of Abstraction and Generalization are subservient

VI. Of the Errours to which we are liable in Speculation, and in the Conduct of Affairs, in consequence of a rash Application of general Principles

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