A NEW ESSAY concerning the ORIGIN OF IDEAS
Volume 3
PART FOUR
Errors to which Human Knowledge is Subject
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A NEW ESSAY concerning the ORIGIN OF IDEAS
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PART FOUR |
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Errors to which Human Knowledge is Subject |
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Contents
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| CHAPTER 1. | A summary of all the cognitions in which nature itself protects us from every error |
| CHAPTER 2. | The nature of human errors |
| Article 1. | The distinction between investigating the nature of error and investigating the nature of its cause | |
| Article 2. | Error is solely in the understanding | |
| Article 3. | Error is in judgments posterior to perceptions | |
| Article 4. | Explanation of the particular kind of errors caused by the misuse of language | |
| Article 5. | Why error is only in judgments posterior to perceptions and first ideas | |
| Article 6. | Direct knowledge and reflective knowledge - continuation | |
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Popular knowledge and philosophical knowledge |
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| Article 8. | A summary of what has been said about the seat of error |
| CHAPTER 3. | The cause of human errors |
| 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 | |
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The limits within which material error can occur |
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| 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 |
| CHAPTER 4. | Reflective persuasion of truth and error |
| 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. | Our state of the mind when we are 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 about the first principles, deduced from an extrinsic criterion | |
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Persuasion about error is possible: the nature of this persuasion |
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| Article 8. | Continuation | |
| Article 9. | Error is always a kind of ignorance |
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