The truth of thought
Subtitle: or, Material logic: a short treatise on the initial philosophy, the groundwork necessary for the consistent pursuit of knowledge
Publisher: Loyola University Press
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Chapter I. The Name and General Scope of the Treatise.; title: A Distinction — Name and Object of the Treatise — The Initial Philosophy — Spirit of the Inquiry 9; title: Chapter II. The Question Again Stated.; title: Subtle Questions — Two Manners of Reply — A Strange Fact — The Older Writers — A Sceptical Tendency — Sources of the Tendency — Matter of the Treatise  14; title: Chapter III. A Chapter of Discord.; title: Bacon — Hobbes — Locke — Berkeley — Descartes — Kant — Fichte — Schelling — Hegel — A Summary — Comte and Positivism — What have we to Offer? — Course Outlined . 21; title: Chapter IV. Consciousness and Evidence.; title: A Plea for Method — Is the Act of Consciousness Simul- taneous with Thought? — Memory and Personal Identity — Object of Consciousness — Some Leading Facts — The Ground or Motive for the Declarations of Consciousness — Importance of Evidence 43; title: Chapter V. The Affirmation of an Object That is Not Self.; title: The Great Question — To be Conscious is to Know — Transit to Non-Self — Example — General Inference  52; title: Chapter VI. Scepticism.; title: Dogmatic and Non-Dogmatic Scepticism — Partial Scepticism — Inconsistency — A Practical Consideration — An Advantage Gained — The Work Before Us 56; title: Chapter VII. The Truth of Thought or Logical Truth.; title: Truth : Ontological, Logical, Moral — Truth, a Certain Correspondence or Conformity — Logical Truth — Logical Falsity — Logical Truth : in what Mental Act is it Found — The Radical Reason 64; title: Chapter VIII. Certitude.; title: Three States of Mind: Ignorance, Doubt, Certitude — Object of Certitude — Three Orders of Ontological Truth : Metaphysical, Physical, Moral — Metaphysical, Physical and Moral Certitude — Objective Certitude — Species and Degrees of Certitude — Certitude : Immediate and Mediate ; Direct and Reflex ; Philosophical — Probability 73; title: Chapter IX. Means we Possess for Acquiring Knowledge : Perceptive or Knowing Powers. The External Senses.; title: A Difficulty — Unity of the Human Person — The Outer Senses — The Formal Objects of the Outer Senses — Taste — Smell — Hearing — Sight — Touch 85; title: Chapter X. Imagination.; title: Imagination — Imagination and Intellect — External Senses and Imagination — Error in the Judgment — The Normal State — Uses of the Imagination 102; title: Chapter XI. Intellect and Thought.; title: The Intellectual Act — The Principle of Unity — Acts of Intellect or Mind — Mediate and Immediate Knowledge — The Idea as a Sign — The Universal Idea: Nominalism, Conceptualism, Realism — Thought 110; title: Chapter XII. Error.; title: Error — Error is not Physically Necessary — The Savage and the Sun — Error and the Will — Error arid Opinion — Normal State — Objections Raised — An Idealist Difficulty 129; title: Chapter XIII. Criterion and Evidence.; title: The Word, Criterion — Some Answers — Evidence — Descartes and Reid — Objective Truth — The Word, Evidence — Evidence: Immediate and Mediate; Intrinsic and Extrinsic — The Beginnings of Knowledge 145; title: Chapter XIV. Human Testimony and Belief.; title: Some Terms: Witness, Testimony, Belief, Authority — Testimony: Divine and Human; Doctrinal and Historical — Witness: Immediate and Mediate— Belief and Life — Dogmatic Testimony — Sensus Communis — Historical Testimony — Conditions Postulated — Argument in Brief — Contemporary Events — Past Events — Oral Tradition — Writing — Monuments — Note 163; title: Chapter XV. Conclusion.; title: Summary of Method — The two Extremes and the Middle — What is Evident — A Quiet Process — Sensus Communis 195