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CONTENTS.
Observations and Explanations, 226
1. A caveat, 226
2. Important law of knowledge, 226
3. Materiality and immateriality. Eighth Counter-proposition, 227
4. Eighth counter-proposition the common property of materialist and spiritualist, 228
5. Early conception of mind as material. Ghosts, clairvoyance, spirit rapping, 229
6. Conception of mind as material substance dismissed, 231
7. Conception of mind as result of organisation: phrenology, 231
8. The spiritualist's conception of mind is as null as the materialist's, 232
9. Both parties hold mind to be particular, 233
10. It is known only as the universal, 234
11. The materialist's error consists in his holding mind to be particular, 235
12. The spiritualist's error consists in his holding mind to be particular, 236
13. The two errors summed up, 238
14. Recapitulation of the institutional proof of immateriality, 238
PROPOSITION IX.
The Ego per se, 241
Demonstration, 241
Observations and Explanations, 242
1. Purport of this proposition in relation to Proposition I., 242
2. An objection started, 242
3. Objection obviated, 243
4. Another objection obviated, 244
5. David Hume outgoes this proposition, 245
6. What this proposition contends for, 246
7. The mind must always know itself in, but not as, some determinate condition, 246
8. Ninth Counter-proposition, 248
9. Its twofold error, 248
10. History of word "essence." Its meaning reversed by moderns, 249
11. Consequences of this reversal—injustice to the old philosophers, 250
12. Confusion and error to which the reversal has led, 251
13. This proposition reduces the ego per se to a contradiction, 252
14. Why the word ego is used in these discussions, 253
15. The individual or monad, 253
16. An objection obviated, 254
17. Another objection obviated, 255
PROPOSITION X.
Sense and Intellect, 257
Demonstration, 257
Observations and Explanations, 258
1. Comment on data of proof of this proposition, 258
2. Tenth Counter-proposition, 259
3. The Leibnitzian restriction of counter-proposition, 259
4. Comment on the translation here given of the counter-proposition, 260