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Explication or words Sec. 1. A chief impediment to the progress of know ledge 2. Cause of the progress of mathematmal sciences 3. The foundations of all science Terms of Art 4. All words do not admit of being defined 5. Words which cannot be logically defined 6. Individuals, the most general terms, and cer tain species cannot be logically defined 7. Remarkable defect of the Aristotleian philo sophy 8. Terms peculiar to pneumatology. Are often incapable of definition 9. The mind active, according to human judgment 10. Faculties, habits, capacity 11. Perception, conception, consciousness, and memory 1 2. Original signification of perception and 1ts analogical application l 3. Abuse of the word perception by Hume 1 Conception' distinguished from all other operations of the mind. 15. Another signification of the same words 16. Ambiguity m their meanings avoided 1 7. Distinction between the operations of the mind and their objects. 1 8. This distinction confounded by Hume 19. Idea. Used m a twofold sense 20. The three first principles of the Pythagoreans 21. How far the latter differ from the elder.
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Thomas Reid (1710 1796) was a Scottish philosopher. The founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, he played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
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- Publication date2018
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- ISBN 13 9781330835746
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages131
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