A NEW ESSAY concerning the ORIGIN OF IDEAS
Volume 3
PART THREE
 

Application of the Criterion to Demonstrate the
Truth of Non-pure, or Materiated Knowledge

 

 

Contents

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 fact when felt but not understood
  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 (vol. 1, 331 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. 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 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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