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ADVERTISEMENT.

IN various parts of the following Work, references are made to fubfequent fpeculations, which are not contained in it. These speculations it is my intention to refume at fome future period: but when I confider the extent of my fubject, and the many accidents which may divert me from the profecution of it, I cannot venture so far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promise of a future publication.

Some additional chapters are still wanting, to complete the Analysis of the Intellectual Powers. After finishing this, the course of my inquiries would lead me to treat, in the second place, of Man confidered as an Active and Moral being; and, thirdly, of Man confidered as the member of a Political Society.

COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH,

March 13, 1792.

SECT. I. Of the Utility of the Philosophy of the

Human Mind,

II. Continuation of the same Subject,

CHAP. I.

Of the Powers of External Perception.

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SECT. I. Of the Theories which have been formed

by Philosophers, to explain the Manner

in which the MIND perceives external

Objects,

II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which seem

to have given rise to the common The-

III.-Of Dr. Reid's Speculations on the Sub-

ories of Perception,

ject of Perception,

IV. Of the Origin of our Knowledge,

CHAP. II.

23

46

62

68

83

88

SECT. I.-General Observations on this Faculty of

the Mind,

137

II. Of the Objects of our Thoughts, when

we employ general Terms,

III. Remarks on the Opinions of some mod-

ern Philosophers on the Subject of the

foregoing Section,

IV. Continuation of the same Subject.-In-

ferences with respect to the Use of

Language as an instrument of Thought

and the Errors in Reasoning to which

it occasionally gives rise,

V. Of the Purposes to which the powers of

Abstraction and Generalization are

subservient,

VI. Of the Errors to which we are liable in

Speculation, and in the Conduct of

Affairs, in consequence of a rash Ap-

plication of general Principles,

VII. Continuation of the same Subject.-Dif

ferences in the intellectual Characters

of individuals, arising from their differ-

ent Habits of Abstraction and Gener-

alization,

VIII.-Continuation of the same Subject.-Use

and Abuse of general Principles in

Politics,

144

163

176

182

191

199

207

CHAP. V.

Of the Association of Ideas,

245

PART I.

Of the Influence of Association in regulating the Succes-

sion of our Thoughts.

SECT. I.-General Observations on this Part of our

Constitution, and on the Language of

Philosophers with respect to it,

ib.

II. Of the Principles of Association among

our Ideas,

III. Of the Power which the Mind has over

the Train of its Thoughts,

IV. Illustrations of the Doctrine stated in the

preceding Section,

1. Of Wit,

2. Of Rhyme,

3. Of Poetical Fancy,

255

261

265

ib.

270

275

4. Of Invention in the arts and Sci-

ences,

279

V.-Application of the Principles stated in the

foregoing Sections of this Chapter, to

explain the Phenomena of Dreaming, 288

PART II.

Of the Influence of Association on the Intellectual and on

the Active Powers.

SECT. I. Of the Influence of casual Associations on

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our speculative conclusions,

306

II. Of the Influence of the association of Ideas

on our Judgments in Matters of Taste, 324

III. Of the Influence of Association on our

active Principles and on our moral

Judgments,

IV.-General remarks on the Subjects treated

339

in the foregoing sections of this chapter 349

CHAP. VI.

Of Memory.

SECT. I.-General Observations on Memory,

II. Of the varieties of Memory in different

III. Of the improvement of Memory.-Anal-

ysis of the principles on which the

Culture of Memory depends,