| Article 1 |
Error is willed |
| Article 2 |
Malebranche's splendid teaching
about the cause of error |
| Article 3 |
Occasional causes of error |
| Article 4 |
Why it seems that we are
necessitated when giving our assent to some truths, such as geometric truths,
that are furnished with evidence leading to certainty |
| Article 5 |
Human beings are absolved of many
errors |
| Article 6 |
Although we cannot always avoid
material error, we can avoid the harm springing from it |
| Article 7 |
The limits within which material
error can occur |
| Article 8 |
The sense in which the Scriptures
and the Fathers of the Church say that truths are obvious, and that everyone
who wishes can come to possess them |
| Article 9 |
St. Augustine's teaching on
idolatry indicates an example of error in common, popular knowledge |
| Article 10 |
St. Augustine's teaching on
disbelief indicates an example of error in philosophical knowledge |
| Article 11 |
Continuation of the analysis of
error: error presupposes mental confusion |
| Article 12 |
Error results from an unjust
suspension of assent |
| Article 13 |
Error sometimes results from haste
or undue alacrity in giving assent |
| Article 1 |
Reflective persuasion in general
|
| Article 2 |
Evidence, and the persuasion
produced by the first criterion of certainty in the principles |
| Article 3 |
Persuasion produced by the
criterion of certainty found in consequences |
| Article 4 |
The state of the mind when
persuaded by the first criterion of certainty, according to St. Thomas and the
author of the Itinerary |
| Article 5 |
Persuasion produced by the
extrinsic criterion of certainty, and especially by authority |
| Article 6 |
Persuasion of the first
principles, deduced from an extrinsic criterion |
| Article 7 |
Persuasion about error is
possible: the nature of this persuasion |
| Article 8 |
Continuation |
| Article 9 |
Error is always a kind of
ignorance |
