The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters, Volumen1

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To the Rev Archibald Alison 1790
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DEDICATION 95
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OF SMELLING
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Apology for metaphysical absurdities Sensation without a sentient
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OF TASTING
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and Secondary Qualities established 845
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OF SEEING
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On the Correlation of Colour with Extension and Figure in visual
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F ON LOCKES NOTION OF THE CREATION OF MATTER 924
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SECTION XXI Of the Process of Nature in perception
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Of the Signs by which we learn to perceive Distance from the eye
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Of the Signs used in other acquired perceptions
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Of the Analogy between Perception and the credit we give to Human Testimony
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CONCLUSION Containing Reflections upon the opinions of Philosophers on this subject
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D PERCEPTION PROPER AND SENSATION PROPER
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B ESSAYS ON THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF
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DEDICATION
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PREFACE
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ESSAY IPRELIMINARY CHAPTER I Explication of Words
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Principles taken for granted
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Of Hypotheses
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Of Analogy
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Of the proper means of Knowing the operations of the mind
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Of the difficulty of Attending to the operations of our own minds
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Division of the powers of the mind
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Of Social and Solitary operations of mind
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ESSAY IIOF THE POWERS WE HAVE BY MEANS OF OUR EXTERNAL SENSES CHAPTER I Of the Organs of Sense
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Of the Impressions on the organs nerves and brain
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False Conclusions drawn from the impressions before mentioned
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K THAT THE TERMS IMAGE IMPRESSION TYPE c IN PHILO
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Of Perception
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T ON THE QUALITY OF NECESSITY AS A CRITERION OF
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What it is to Account for a Phænomenon in Nature
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VII Sentiments of Philosophers about the Perceptions of External objects and first of the theory of Father Malebranche
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Of the Common Theory of Perception and of the sentiments of the Peripatetics and of Des Cartes
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The sentiments of Mr Locke
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Of Sensation
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Of the Objects of Perception and first of Primary and Second ary Qualities
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Occasion and grounds of the Discussion 715
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Of other objects of Perception
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Of Matter and of Space
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Of the Evidence of Sense and of Belief in general
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Of the Improvement of the Senses
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Of the Fallacy of the Senses
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OF MEMORY CHAPTER I Things obvious and certain with regard to Memory
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Memory an original faculty
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Of Duration
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Of Identity
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of the idea of Duration VI Mr Lockes account of our Personal Identity V Mr Lockes account of the Origin of our Ideas and particularly
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Theories concerning Memory ESSAY IV OF CONCEPTION CHAPTER I Of Conception or Simple Apprehension in general II Theories concerning ...
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Laws of Mental Succession as General A Not of Reproduc
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Of General Words
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Of General Conceptions
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Of general conceptions formed by Analysing objects 394 IV Of general conceptions formed by Combination
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Opinion of philosophers about Universals 403
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INTRODUCTION 721
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OF JUDGMENT CHAPTER I Of Judgment in general
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Present State 732
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Of Common Sense
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OF MORALS
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Sentiments of philosophers concerning Judgment IV Of First Principles in general 413 421
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OF THE ANIMAL PRINCIPLES OF ACTION
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ACCOUNT OF ARISTOTLES LOGIC
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First principles of Necessary Truths
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Opinions ancient and modern about First Principles VIII Of Prejudices the causes of error 452
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Of Reasoning in general and of Demonstration
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Whether Morality be capable of demonstration
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Of Probable Reasoning
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Of Mr Humes Scepticism with regard to Reason
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OF TASTE CHAPTER I Of Taste in general
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Of the Objects of taste and first of Novelty III Of Grandeur IV Of Beauty
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Página 218 - we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were fitted or not fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed that this should be our first enquiry.
Página 431 - its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them. Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connection and agreement, or
Página 491 - be what the author calls his hypothesis, I subscribe to it, and think it not an hypothesis, but a manifest truth ; though I conceive it to be very improperly expressed, by saying that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature.*
Página 357 - and therefore can neither be laid up in a repository, nor drawn out of it. But we are told, " That this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more than this, that the mind has a power to revive perceptions, which it once had, with this additional perception annexed
Página 284 - could but take courage to call in question the existence of a material world, would easily find unanswerable arguments in that doctrine. [161] " Some truths there are," says Berkeley, " so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his
Página 411 - cannot be the objects of imagination, when we take that word in its strict and proper sense. " I find," says Berkeley, " I have a faculty of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a
Página 434 - to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, or whatever it is which a man can be employed about in thinking." \ Such is the nature of all truth that can be discovered, by perceiving the agreements and disagreements of
Página 284 - important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth—in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world—have not any subsistence without a mind.
Página 349 - understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the two ways before-mentioned. [323] That, as our power over the material world reaches only to the compounding, dividing, and putting together, in various
Página 360 - more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures." It is very difficult to examine this account of belief with the same gravity with which it is proposed. It puts one in mind of the ingenious account given by

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