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INTRODUCTION.-[OF PHILOSOPHY IN GENERAL,]

SECT. 1. Of the Object of Philosophy, and the Method of prosecuting

Philosophical Inquiries,

SECT. 2. Application of the foregoing Principles to the Philosophy of the

Human Mind,

SECT. 3. Causes of the slow Progress of Human Knowledge; more par-

ticularly of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, and of the

Sciences immediately connected with it,

SUBJECT AND ARRANGEMENT OF THIS TREATISE.

PART I.-OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF MAN,

SECT. 1. Of Consciousness,

SECT. 2. Of the Powers of External Perception,

ART. 1. Of the Laws of Perception in the case of our

different Senses,

2. Of Perception in general,

SECT. 3. Of Attention,

SECT. 4. Of Conception,

SECT. 5. Of Abstraction,

SECT. 6 Of the Association of Ideas,

SECT. 10. Of Intellectual Powers or Capacities, formed by particular

Habits of Study, or of Business,

SECT. 11. Of certain auxiliary Faculties and Principles essential to our

Intellectual Improvement, or intimately connected with it,

2. Of the Principle of [Sympathetic] Imitation,

SECT. 12. Of the Intellectual Faculties of Man, as contrasted with the

Instincts of the Brutes,

II-ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

OF THE NATURE and Object of THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND,

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PART II.

SECT. 1. OF THE UTILITY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND,

SECT. 2. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT,

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CHAPTER I.-OF THE POWERS OF EXTERNAL PERCEPTION.

SECT. 1. Of the Theories which have been formed by Philosophers, to

explain the Manner in which the Mind perceives External

Objects,

SECT. 2. Of certain Natural Prejudices, which seem to have given rise to

the Common Theories of Perception,

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SECT. 3. Of Dr. Reid's Speculations on the Subject of Perception,

SECT. 4. Of the Origin of our Knowledge,

OF ATTENTION,

OF CONCEPTION,

CHAPTER II.

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CHAPTER III.

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CHAPTER IV.-OF ABSTRACTION.

SECT. 1. General Observations on this Faculty of the Mind,

SECT. 2. Of the Objects of our Thoughts, when we employ General Terms,

SECT. 3. Remarks on the Opinions of some Modern Philosophers on the

Subject of the foregoing Section,

SECT. 4. Continuation of the same Subject.—Inferences with respect to the

Use of Language as an Instrument of Thought, and the Errors

in Reasoning to which it occasionally gives rise,

SECT. 5. Of the Purposes to which the Powers of Abstraction and Gener-

alization are subservient,

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SECT. 6. Of the Errors to which we are liable in Speculation, and in the

Conduct of Affairs, in consequence of a rash Application of

general Principles,

SECT. 7. Continuation of the same Subject.—Differences in the Intellectual

Characters of Individuals, arising from their different Habits

of Abstraction and Generalization,

SECT. 8. Continuation of the same Subject.-Use and abuse of general

Principles in Politics,

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CHAPTER V.-OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.

PART I.-OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATION IN REGULATING THE

SUCCESSION OF OUR THOUGHTS.

SECT. 1. General Observations on this Part of our Constitution, and on the

Language of Philosophers with respect to it,

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SECT. 2. Of the Principles of Association among our Ideas,

261

SECT. 3. Of the Power which the Mind has over the Train of its Thoughts,

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SECT. 4. Illustrations of the Doctrine stated in the preceding Section,

1. Of Wit,

2. Of Rhyme,

3. Of Poetical Fancy,

4. Of Invention in the Arts and Sciences,

SECT. 5. Application of the Principles stated in the foregoing Sections of
this Chapter, to explain the Phenomena of Dreaming,

PART II.-OF the InfluencE OF ASSOCIATION ON THE INTELLECTUAL
AND ON THE ACTIVE POWERS.

SECT. 1. Of the Influence of casual Associations on our Speculative Con-

SECT. 2. Of the Influence of the Association of Ideas on our Judgments in

Matters of Taste,

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SECT. 3. Of the Influence of Association on our active Principles and on

our moral Judgments,

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SECT. 4. General Remarks on the Subjects treated in the foregoing Sections

of this Chapter,

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CHAPTER VI.-OF MEMORY.

SECT. 1. General Observations on Memory,

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SECT. 2. Of the Varieties of Memory in different Individuals,

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[SECT. 3. Continuation of the same Subject.—Miscellaneous Facts and

Observations,]

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SECT. 4. Of the Improvement of Memory.—Analysis of the Principles on

which the Culture of Memory depends,

SECT. 5. Continuation of the same Subject.-Of the Aid which the Memory

derives from Philosophical Arrangement,

SECT. 6. Continuation of the same Subject.-Effects produced on the Me-

mory by committing to Writing our acquired Knowledge,

SECT. 7. Continuation of the same Subject.-Of Artificial Memory,

SECT. 8. Continuation of the same Subject.-Importance of making a proper

Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge, in order to

derive Advantage from the Acquisitions of Memory,

SECT. 9. Of the Connexion between Memory and Philosophical Genius, .

CHAPTER VII.-OF IMAGINATION.

SECT. 1. Analysis of Imagination,

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SECT. 2. Of Imagination considered in its Relation to some of the Fine Arts, 437

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SECT. 3. Continuation of the same Subject.-Relation of Imagination and

of Taste to Genius,

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SECT. 4. Of the Influence of Imagination on Human Character and Hap-

piness,

451

SECT. 5. Continuation of the same Subject.-Inconveniences resulting from

an ill-regulated Imagination,

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SECT. 6. Continuation of the same Subject.—Important Uses to which the

Power of Imagination is subservient,

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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

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