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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