CONTENT S.

AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND IM-
MUTABILITY OF TRUTH, IN
SITION TO SOPHISTRY AND SCEP-

IN OPPO

TICISM.

PREFACE to this Edition.

INTRODUCTION,

PART I

OF THE STANDARD OF TRUTH,

CHAPTER I.

Of the perception of Truth in general,

CHAP. II.

All reasoning terminates in first principles. All evidence ultimately intuitive. Common Sense the standard of Truth to man,

Sect. 1. Of Mathematical Reafoning,

a 2

Pag.

3

23

24

42

44

Sect.

Sect. 2. Of the evidence of External fenfe,

Sect. 3. Of the evidence of Internal fenfe,

or consciousness,

Sect. 4. Of the evidence of Memory,

Sect. 5. Of Reafoming from the Effect to the

Caufe,

Sect. 6. Of Probable or Experimental Rea-

foning,

Sect. 7. Of Analogical Reafoning,

Sect. 8. Of faith in Teftimony,

Sect. 9. Conclufion of this chapter. Fur-

ther proof. General Remarks

on Scepticism,

PART II.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PRECEDING

DOCTRINE, WITH INFERENCES,

CHAP.

I.

Confirmation of this doctrine, from the

practice,

Pag.

CHAP. II.

This doctrine rejected by Sceptical Phi-

lofophers,

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57

76

85

103

199

112

120

133

Sect. 1. Of Mathematicians,

Sect. 2. Of Natural Philofophers,

Sect. 3. The fubject continued. Intuitive

Truths diftinguishable into classes, 179

137

147

191

Sect.

Pag.

Rife and

Sect. 1. General obfervations.

progress of modern Scepticism.

Of Des Cartes and Male-

Locke and Berke-

branche.

ley..

General view of Mr

Hume's Theory of the Under-

Standing,

Sect. 2. Of the Non-existence of Matter,

Sect. 3. Of Liberty and Neceffity,

CHA P. III.

Recapitulation and Inference,

PART

OBJECTIONS ANSWERED,

CHA P.

I.

The principles of this Effay confiftent

with the interefts of fcience, and the

rights of mankind. Imperfection of

the School-logic,

III.

CHAP. II.

The fubject continued. Eftimate of Me-

taphyfic,

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327

333

335

361

CHAP,

Pag.

CHAP. III.

Confequences of Metaphyfical Scepti-

cifm,

POSTSCRIPT,

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