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Perception, ambiguity of term, 214-219

Philosophy, changes in, 14-19; political nature of, 21; defined, 45; and science, 51; and psychology, 189-191; Essay X., 242-270

Plato, 21, 47, 49, 72, 219 n., 278

Pragmatism, 25, 31, 33, 55, 95 n., 109, 130 n., 144; Essay V., 154-168, 193

Psychical, 81 n., 104

Psychology, and philosophy, Essay X., 242-270, 301

Rationalism, Essay XI., 271-304

“Reality,” 98, 105, 113, 129, 169 n., 172, 228, 264

Relation, and appearance, 119-120

Santayana, G., 96, 224 n.

Sciences, developed out of morals, 56; and industry, 57-58; as mode of knowledge, 108; and philosophy, 268-270, 287

Sensation, 94, 262 n.

Sensationalism, Essay XI., 271-304

Social Ethics, 302-304

Socrates, 51, 76, 275, 304

Species, equivalent to scholastic form, 3-4; as eternal and teleological, 4-5; basis of knowledge, 6-7

Spencer, Herbert, 16, 33, 66

Spinoza, 181

Stoicism, 172, 279

Stuart, H. W., 214 n.

Subjective, 98, 155, 204 n., 270

Teleology, of life, 4; of nature, 10, 32; basis of idealism, 11; concrete, 15, 22; and evolution, 32-35; subjective, 223-224

Theory, 124-127

Thinking, practical character of, 124-127

Tolstoi, 173 n.

Transcendence, of knowledge, 103 n., 156-157

Transcendental, and supernatural, 22, 29, 282; view of knowledge, 24, 27; freedom, 74

Truth, criterion of, 92, 95, 107-111; Essay IV., 112-153; absolute, 137; identified with existence, 138, 145; eternal, 147, 152; Essay V., 154-168; 230-231, 237, 282

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