Institutes of Metaphysic (Classic Reprint): The Theory of Knowing and Being

Explore a rigorous new system for understanding knowledge and reality.

This work presents a cohesive method for metaphysics, focusing on how we know, what knowledge entails, and how the mind and world relate. Structured around three core sections, it argues for clear distinctions and decisive demonstrations as the path to truth. Ferrier outlines the book as a methodical inquiry into thinking, knowledge, and being. It frames epistemology, agnoiology, and ontology as essential divisions, each explained with propositions, counter-propositions, and careful observations. The aim is a theory that unites truth and demonstration while clarifying long-standing philosophical questions.

• The primary law of knowledge and how reason tests its claims.
• How the object of knowledge relates to the knowing subject, and why they resist simple separation.
• Arguments about matter per se, its qualities, and the limits of common views.
• The imagined structure of philosophy’s starting points and the method that keeps divisions distinct.