Fundamental philosophy
Subtitle: Volume 1
Publisher: D. & J. Sadlier
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Description: Volume 1 of 2.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS OF VOL. I.; title: BOOK FIRST.; title: ON CERTAINTY.; title: I. Importance and Utility of the Question of Certainty 3; title: II. True State of the Question 7; title: III. Certainty of the Human Race and Philosophical Certainty 14; title: IV. Existence of Transcendental Science in the Absolute Intellectual Order 24; title: V. Transcendental Science in tho Human Intellectual Order cannot emanate from the Senses 32; title: VI. Transcendental Science. — Insufficiency of Real Truths 37; title: VII. The Philosophy of the Me cannot produce Transcendental Science 41; title: VIII. Universal Identity 55; title: IX. Universal Identity, — Continued. 64; title: X. Problem of Representation : Monads of Leibnitz 67; title: XI. Problem of Representation examined 71; title: XII. Immediate Intelligibility. 76; title: XIII. Representation of Causality and Ideality 83; title: XIV. Impossibility of Finding the first Principle in the Ideal Order 89; title: XV. The Indispensable Condition of all Human Knowledge. — Means of perceiving Truth 92; title: XVI. Confusion of Ideas in Disputes on the Fundamental Principle 102; title: XVII. Thought and Existence. — Descartes* Principle 105; title: XVIII. The Principle of Descartes, continued. — His Method 111; title: XIX. Value of the Principle, I Think: — Its Analysis 118; title: XX. True Sense of the Principle of Contradiction.— Knot's Opinion 126; title: XXI Does the Principle of Contradiction merit the Title of Fundamental? and if so, in what Sense? 140; title: XXII. The Principle of Evidence 146; title: XXIII. The Criterion of Consciousness 161; title: XXIV. The Criterion cf Evidence 167; title: XXV. The Objective Value^of Ideas 168; title: XXVI. Can all Cognitions be reduced to the Perception of Identity? 171; title: XXVII. Continuation of the same subject 176; title: XXVIII. Continuation of the same subject 188; title: XXIX. Are there true Synthetic Judgments a priori in the Sense of Kant? 188; title: XXX. Vico's Criterion 200; title: XXXI. Continuation of the same subject 212; title: XXXII. The Criterion of Common Sense 219; title: XXXIII. Error of Lamennais on Common Consent 280; title: XXXIV. Summary and Conclusion 268; title: BOOK SECOND.; title: ON SENSATION.; title: I. Sensation in Itself 249; title: II. Matter is incapable of Sensation. 266; title: III. Sleep and Waking 268; title: IV. Relation of Sensations to an External World 267; title: V. An Idealist Hypothesis 278; title: VI. Is the External and Immediate Cause of Sensations a Free Cause? 276; title: VII. Analysis of the Objectiveness of Sensations 279; title: VIII. Sensation of Extension 288; title: IX. Objectiveness of the Sensation of Extension 287; title: X. Force of Touch to make Sensations Objective 298; title: XI. Inferiority of Touch compared with other Senses 296; title: XII. Can Sight alone give us the Idea of a Surface? 802; title: XIII. Cheselden's Blind Man 810; title: XIV. Can Sight give us the Idea of a Solid? 816; title: XV. Sight and Motion 319; title: XVI. Possibility of other Senses 324; title: XVII. Existence of New Senses 328; title: XVIII. Solution of Lamennais' Objection 338; title: BOOK THIRD.; title: EXTENSION AND SPACE.; title: I. Extension Inseparable from the Idea of Body 339; title: II. Extension not Perceptible as the Direct and Immediate Object of Sensations. 345; title: III. Scientific Fruitfulness of the Idea of Extension 348; title: IV. Reality of Extension 357; title: V. Geometrical Exactness Realized in Nature 360; title: VI. Remarks on Extension 366; title: VII. Space. — Nothing 369; title: VIII. Descartes and Leibnitz on Space 375; title: IX. Opinion of those who attribute to Space a Nature distinct from Bodies 380; title: X. Opinion of those who hold Space to be the Immensity of God 382; title: XI. Fenelon's Opinion 386; title: XII. What Space consists in 391; title: XIII. New Difficulties 396; title: XIV. Another Important Consequence 400; title: XV. Illusion of Fixed Points in Space 403; title: XVI. Observations on Kant's Opinion 407; title: XVII. Inability of Kant's Doctrine to solve the Problem of the Possibility of Experience 416; title: XVIII. The Problem of Sensible Experience 418; title: XIX. Extension abstracted from Phenomena 421; title: XX. Are there Absolute Magnitudes? 427; title: XXI. Pure Intelligibility of the Extended World 432; title: XXII. Infinite Divisibility. 486; title: XXIII. Unextended Points 439; title: XXIV. A Conjecture on the Transcendental Notion of Extension 442; title: XXV. Harmony of the Real, Phenomenal, and Ideal Orders 446; title: XXVI. Character of the Relations of the Real Order to the Phenomenal 450; title: XXVII. Whether every Thing must be in some Place 452; title: XXVIII. Contingency of Corporeal Relations. 459; title: XXIX. Solution of two Difficulties 462; title: XXX. Passive Sensibility 466; title: XXXI. Possibility of a greater Sphere in active Sensibility 469; title: XXXII. Possibility of the Penetration of Bodies. 480; title: XXXIII. A Triumph of Religion in the Field of Philosophy 488; title: XXXIV. Conclusion and Summing up 489; title: Notes to Book First 495; title: Note to Book Second 514; title: Notes to Book Third 517