BOOK I.. Of Ideas in General.

OF IDEAS IN GENERAL.

CHAP. I. OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTITHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY 23

Sect. 1. Thoughts and Things -- 2. Necessary and Experiential Truths 25 3. Deduction and Induction 27 4. Theories and Facts 29 5. Ideas and Sensations 30 6. Reflexion and Sensation 33 7. Subjective and Objective 35 8. Matter and Form 38 9. Man the Interpreter of Nature 41 10. The Fundamental Antithesis is inseparable 43 11. Successive Generalization 49 {viii}

CHAP. II. OF TECHNICAL TERMS 54

Art. 1. Examples. 2. Use of Terms.

CHAP. III. OF NECESSARY TRUTHS 57

Art. 1. The two Elements of Knowledge, 2. Shown by necessary Truths. 3. Examples of necessary Truths in numbers. 4. The opposite cannot be distinctly conceived. 5. Other Examples. 6. Universal Truths.

CHAP. IV. OF EXPERIENCE 65

Art. 1. Experience cannot prove necessary Truths, 2. Except when aided by Ideas.

CHAP. V. OF THE GROUNDS OF NECESSARY TRUTHS 69

Art. 1. These Grounds are Fundamental Ideas. 2. These are to be reviewed. 3. Definitions and Axioms. 4. Syllogism, 5. Produces no new Truths. 6. Axioms needed. 7. Axioms depend on Ideas: 8. So do Definitions. 9. Idea not completely expressed.

CHAP. VI. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS ARE NOT DERIVED FROM EXPERIENCE 76

Art. 1. No connexion observed. 2. Faculties implied in observation. 3. We are to examine our Faculties.

CHAP. VII. OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES 81

Sciences arranged according to Ideas. {ix}