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SECT. 1. Of the Object of Philosophy, and the Method of prosecuting
Philosophical Inquiries,
5
SECT. 2. Application of the foregoing Principles to the Philosophy of the
Human Mind,
8
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,
1. Of Language,
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,
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,
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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108
113
120
CHAPTER III.
144
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,
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
SECT. 8. Continuation of the same Subject.-Use and abuse of general
Principles in Politics,
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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165
182
193
198
206
212
219
252
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,
266
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 THEe Intellectual AND ON THE ACTIVE POWERS.
SECT. 1. Of the Influence of casual Associations on our Speculative Con-
clusions,
SECT. 2. Of the Influence of the Association of Ideas on our Judgments in
Matters of Taste,
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270
274
278
282
289
305
321
SECT. 3. Of the Influence of Association on our active Principles and on
our moral Judgments,
334
SECT. 4. General Remarks on the Subjects treated in the foregoing Sections
of this Chapter,
CHAPTER VI.-OF MEMORY.
SECT. 1. General Observations on Memory,
SECT. 2. Of the Varieties of Memory in different Individuals,
[SECT. 3. Continuation of the same Subject.—Miscellaneous Facts and
342
348
362
SECT. 4. Of the Improvement of Memory.—Analysis of the Principles on
which the Culture of Memory depends,
391
SECT. 5. Continuation of the same Subject.-Of the Aid which the Memory
derives from Philosophical Arrangement,
396
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, .
SECT. 2. Of Imagination considered in its Relation to some of the Fine Arts, 437
SECT. 3. Continuation of the same Subject.-Relation of Imagination and
of Taste to Genius,
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450
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,
457
SECT. 6. Continuation of the same Subject.-Important Uses to which the
Power of Imagination is subservient,
467
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,
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ADDENDA,