Section Five
Theory of the Origin of Ideas
PART FOUR
Origin of Pure Ideas, which derive nothing from Feeling
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Section Five |
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Theory of the Origin of Ideas
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PART FOUR
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Origin of Pure Ideas, which derive nothing from Feeling
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Origin of elementary ideas or concepts of being presupposed in human reasoning |
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List of elementary ideas of being |
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Origin of these concepts |
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St. Augustine's arguments about the ideas of unity and number and similar things confirm the theory I have given |
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Origin of the idea of substance |
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The question relative to the origin of the idea of substance |
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Description and analysis of all that we think about substance |
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The starting point for the study of ideas of substance |
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Definition of substance |
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Analysis of the concept of substance |
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Various modes of the idea of substance |
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Origin of the idea of individual |
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Judgments on the subsistence of substances differ from ideas of substance |
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Summary of all the thoughts the human mind can have about substances |
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The three ideas of substance follow one from the other |
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All judgments on the subsistence of substances are explained when one difficulty is overcome |
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The explanation of the specific idea of substance depends on the difficulty found in accounting for judgments on the subsistence of substances |
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Explanation of the perception of individuals |
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A further explanation of the idea of substance |
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Necessity of the explanation |
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Systems dealing with the origin of the idea of substance |
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Another way of finding the origin of the idea of substance |
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First proposition: if our understanding conceives, it conceives something |
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Second proposition: everything can be an object of the understanding |
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Definition |
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Objection to the principle of contradiction |
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Reply — The principle of contradiction defended |
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The demonstration concluded |
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Third proposition: the understanding can perceive qualities only in a subject in which they exist |
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The distinction between Hume's idealism and Berkeley's |
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Hume's idealism refuted |
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Origin of the idea of accident |
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An observation on the invariability of substance |
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Sensible qualities do not exist through themselves, that is, they are not substances |
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Origin of the ideas of cause and effect |
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Purpose of this chapter |
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Proposition |
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The proposition analysed, and the difficulty uncovered |
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Explanation of the difficulty in uncovering the origin of the idea of cause |
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Distinction between substance and cause |
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The understanding completes sense perceptions |
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Application of the teaching on substance to internal feeling |
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Observation on the origin of the ideas of truth, justice and beauty |