{Rosmini Pelican}

Certainty

Part Three - Contents

APPLICATION OF THE CRITERION
TO DEMONSTRATE THE TRUTH OF NON-PURE,
OR MATERIATED KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER 1 The fact in general
Article 1 The connection with what has been said
Article 2 The fact in itself, neither felt nor understood
Article 3 The felt but not understood fact
Article 4 How the matter of knowledge is shown to our spirit
Article 5 The universal principle governing every application of the form of reason to facts presented by feeling
Article 6 Explanation of the universal principle stated above
Article 7 An objection resolved

CHAPTER 2 A further explanation of the principle justifying materiated knowledge in general. the formal part
Article 1 The nature of the imperfect state of innate being in the human mind
Article 2 Likeness
Article 3 The refutation of the fundamental error of the German school is strengthened (NS, ss.)

CHAPTER 3 The certainty of perception, especially of the perception of ourselves
Article 1 What we perceive
Article 2 The feeling of `myself' is a substantial feeling
Article 3 We perceive ourselves without an intermediary principle
Article 4 The certainty of the perception of 'MYSELF'
Article 5 St. Augustine uses the certainty of the perception of ourselves to refute the Academicians
Article 6 Other truths that share in the certainty of the perception of 'myself'
Article 7 An observation on the intellective perceptions of feelings

CHAPTER 4 The certainty of the perception of bodies
Article 1 The difficulty of demonstrating the certainty of the perception of bodies
Article 2 Our understanding sees an action in the experiences undergone by our sense
Article 3 The human spirit perceives and knows a corporeal substance through the experience undergone by the feeling
Article 4 Justification of the perception of bodies

CHAPTER 5 The certainty of beings which are not perceived but deduced from beings which are perceived
Article 1 The kind of beings we know by reasoning but not by perception
Article 2 The distinction between the idea of and the judgment on the subsistence of these beings
Article 3 The origin of the conception of these beings
Article 4 Judgment on the existence of God
CHAPTER 6 Our knowledge of essences
Article 1 The sense in which we are said to know the essences of things
Article 2 Why modern philosophers have denied the knowledge of essences
Article 3 The truth of essences which are known in general
Article 4 Limits of our natural knowledge of essences
Article 5 The subjective and the objective part in the knowledge of essences
Article 6 Consequences of the nature of our knowledge of essences
Article 7 The imperfection of objective intuition
Article 8 Positive and negative essences
Article 9 The negative idea of God
Article 10 Conclusion

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