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CHAPTER V.. Sensation and Experience.

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Sensation and Experience.

Importance of Doctrine regarding Sensation 87

The Two Elements of Locke's Notion of Sensation 89

Its Relation to the Object producing it: Primary and Secondary Qualities 91

Locke criticized as to his Account

(1) Of the Production of Sensation 92

(2) Of its Function in Knowledge 95

The Meaning of Physical Causation 97

Bearing of this Doctrine upon Relation of Soul and Body 98

Criticism of Locke's Dualism 98

Leibniz's Monism 101

Summary of Discussion 103

Leibniz on the Relation of Sensations to Objects occasioning them 105

Nature of Experience 106

Distinction of Empirical from Rational Knowledge 107

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