The Metaphysics of Nature (Classic Reprint)

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The Test of Truth: Analytic; The value of (a) Sense-perception; (b) of the distinction between Formal and Material; (c) of Universality; (d) of Innateness; (e) of Clearness and Distinctness; (f) of the Sufficient Reason; Necessity and the Inconceivability of the Opposite; Necessity as determined by Definiteness of Conception and Relation; Necessity and Consistency; Though the characterisation of the Criterion be imperfect, it is not useless

Scepticism; The Modality of Judgments: Pyrrhonism; Carneades and Probability; Hume; Characteristics of his 'Scepticism'; Motives of his sceptical disguise; Pragmatism

The Relativity of Knowledge; Modes of Relativity classified and illustrated; Incidence of the sceptical criticism of Knowledge; The means of correcting Relativity are immanent in Sense-perception; The limited range of Sense-perception is no objection to its validity; Difficulties arising from the abstract character of Science; - from its departmental character; - and from the nature of Explanation

Cosmology; Substance in Experience; Analysis of Empirical Substance; Empirical Substance is prior to Self-consciousness; Substance and Quality; Primary and Secondary Qualities; How can the World be Known; 'Powers'; Permanence of Substance: Kant and Spencer upon the grounds of this Belief

Ontology of the World; Origin of the problem: Democritus and Plato; Materialism; Hypothetical Realism: Locke, Malebranche, Kant; Subjective Idealism: Berkeley

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