Chapter Iii. _fallacies of Simple Inspection, or à Priori

Fallacies._

§ 1. Character of this class of Fallacies 309

2. Natural prejudice of mistaking subjective laws for objective, exemplified in popular superstitions 310

3. Natural prejudices, that things which we think of together must exist together, and that what is inconceivable must be false 314

4. Natural prejudice, of ascribing objective existence to abstractions 321

5. Fallacy of the Sufficient Reason 322

6. Natural prejudice, that the differences in nature correspond to the distinctions in language 325

7. Prejudice, that a phenomenon cannot have more than one cause 329

8. Prejudice, that the conditions of a phenomenon must resemble the phenomenon 332