An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

(i. AND J. ROBINSON; G. OFFOR ; AND J. EVANS AM) CO. I ALSO, R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW; AND J. CUMMING, UL'BLIN. . CUStttingt)am, College I?ou0e, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA gANTA BARBARA CONTENTS. CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION. Sect. P»g« 1. THE Importance of the Subject, and the Means of prosecuting it 1 2. The Impediments to our Knowledge of the Mind . 3 3. The present State of this Part of Philosophy. Of Des Cartes, Malebranche, and Locke ... 7 4. Apology for those Philosophers 10 5. Of Bishop Berkeley — the Treatise of Human Nature — and of Scepticism 12 6. Of the Treatise of Human Nature 14 7. The System of all these Authors is the same, and leads to Scepticism 16 8. We ought not to despair of a better 17 CHAP. II. OF SMELLING. 1. The Order of Proceeding. Of the Medium and Organ of Smell 19 2. The Sensation considered abstractly .... 20 3. Sensation and Remembrance natural Principles of iv CONTENTS. .Sect. Page 4. Judgment and Belief in some Cases precede simple Apprehension 24 5. Two Theories of the Nature of Belief refuted. Conclusions from what hath been said ... 25 6. Apology for metaphysical Absurdities. Sensations without a Sentient, a Consequence of the Theory of Ideas. Consequences of this strange Opinion 28 7. The Conception and Belief of a sentient Being, or Mind, is suggested by our Constitution. The Notion of Relations not always got by comparing the related Ideas 33 8.…