Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. By Dugald Stewart. Rev. and abridged, with critical and explanatory notes, for the use of colleges and schools. By Francis Bowen ...

CONTENTS. xi
SECT. IV. Of the Aid which the Memory derives from Philosophical
Arrangement... 295
V. Effects of committing to Writing our acquired Knowledge 304
VIo Of Artificial Memory.. 311
VII. Importance of making a proper Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge, in order to derive Advantage
from the Acquisitions of Memory. 315
VIII. Of the Connection between Memory and Genius o 323
C HAPTER VII.
OF IMAGINATION..., 330
SECT. I. Analysis of Imagination... 330
II. Imagination considered in its Relation to the Fine Arts. 337
III. Relation of Imagination and of Taste to Genius.. 349
IV. Influence of Imagination on Character and Happiness. 351
V. Inconveniences resulting from an ill-regulated Imagination 357
VI. Uses to which the Power of Imagination is subservient. 367
CHAPTER VIII.
OF REASON... 3.72
SECT. I. On the Vagueness and Ambiguity of Philosophical Language relative to this part of our Constitution.. 372
II. Of Matliematical Axioms... 380
III. Laws of Belief connected with the exercise of Consciousness, Memory, Perception, and Reasoning.. 392
C HAPTER IX.
OF REASONING AND OF DEDUCTIVE EVIDENCE. o. 405
SECT. I. 1. Doubts with respect to Locke's Distinction between the
Powers of Intuition and of Reasoning.. 405
2. Conclusions obtained by a Process of Deduction often
mistaken for Intuitive Judgments. 410
II. Of General Reasoning...,.,, 413
III. Of Mathematical Demonstration.,,,. 423
IV. Reasonings concerning Probable or Contingent Truths. 456