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CONTENTS.
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5. The counter-proposition is equally contradictory, whether accepted without, or with, a restriction, 261
6. The counter-proposition is the foundation of "sensualism"—character of sensualism, 261
7. The anti-sensual psychology merely restricts the counter-proposition—leaves the contradiction uncorrected, 263
8. The root of the mischief. History of distinction between sense and intellect, 264
9. Aim and procedure of Greek metaphysics, 264
10. A rule for the historian of philosophy, 266
11. This rule observed in these Institutes, 266
12. Return to history of distinction between sense and intellect, 267
13. Illustration of early Greek doctrine, 269
14. The old philosophers were right in their problem—in their way of working it, and in fixing sense as the faculty of nonsense, 270
15. A reason why the truth of this doctrine is not obvious, 271
16. Difficulty and difference of opinion as to intellectual element, 272
17. Ambiguities of the old philosophers, 273
18. Three misconceptions arising out of these ambiguities, 273
19. Comment on first misconception, 275
20. Comment on second misconception, 276
21. Comment on third misconception, 277
22. Key to the Greek philosophy, 279
23. Return to counter-proposition. It is founded on a confusion of the distinction between sense and intellect, 281
24. The Lockian and the Kantian psychology in limiting the counter-proposition effect no subversion of sensualism, 282
25. Kant's doctrine impotent against sensualism, 283
26. The statement in par. 4, and the charge in par. 7, are borne out by the foregoing remarks, 286
27. Kant sometimes nearly right. He errs through a neglect of necessary truth, 287
28. The true compromise between Sense and Intellect, 288
PROPOSITION XI.
Presentation and Representation, 290
Demonstration, 290
Observations and Explanations, 291
1. Why this proposition is introduced, 291
2. Distinction between knowing and thinking, 292
3. This proposition the foundation of a true philosophy of experience, 293
4. Representation—its two insuperable restrictions, 293
5. First restriction by way of addition. Second by way of subtraction, 294
6. The latter restriction unrecognised by philosophers. Eleventh Counter-proposition, 295
7. Its invalidity shown, 296
8. The minimum cogitable equates with the minimum scibile, 296
9. Dr Reid's mistake in his assault on representationism, 297
10. The truth and the error of representationism, 299