The Works of Thomas Reid: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters, Volume 1

Thomas Reid

Maclachlan and Stewart, 1872 - Philosophy - 1034 pages

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DUGALD STEWARTS ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS	1

Of the Notion of Active Power 512	6

PAGE	8

E ESSAY ON QUANTITY	29

D DISTINCTION OF THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES	31

I WRITINGS NOT INTENDED for puBLICATION	36

B To Lord Kames 17721782	50

OF THE WILL	58

The same subject continued	156

Of seeing objects Single with two eyɗs	163

Of the laws of vision in Brute animals	166

Squinting considered hypothetically	167

Facts relating to Squinting	172

Of the effect of Custom in seeing objects Single	173

of Dr Porterfields account of single and double vision	176

subject	178

To Dr James Gregory 17831793	62

Of the influence of Motives 608	66

First Argument for Liberty 616	83

Y ON EGOISM 988	86

To the Rev Archibald Alison 1790	89

DEDICATION	95

The Order of proceeding Of the medium and organ of Smell	104

Apology for metaphysical absurdities Sensation without a sentient a consequence of the theory of Ideas Consequences of this strange opinion	108

The conception and belief of a sentient being or Mind is suggested by our constitution The notion of Relations not always got by Comparing the relat...	110

There is a quality or virtue in bodies which we call their Smell How this is connected in the imagination with the sensation	112

Whether in Sensation the mind is Active or Passive	114

OF TASTING	115

Variey of Sounds Their place and distance learned by Custom without reasoning	116

Of Natural Language	117

Of Heat and Cold	119

of Natural Signs	121

Of Hardness and other Primary Qualities	123

Of Extension	125

Of the existence of a Material World	126

Of the Systems of Philosophers concerning the Senses	130

OF SEEING SECTION I The excellence and dignity of this faculty	132

Sight discovers almost nothing which the Blind may not compre hend The reason of this	133

Of the Visible Appearances of objects	135

That Colour is a quality of bodies not a sensation of the mind	137

An inference from the preceding	138

That none of our sensations are Resemblances of any of the quali ties of bodies	140

Of visible Figure and Extension	142

Some Queries concerning Visible Figure answered	144

Of the Principles of Action in general 543	146

Of the Geometry of Visibles	147

Of the Parallel Motion of the eyes	152

Of our seeing objects Erect by inverted images	153

Of Perception in general	182

Of the Process of Nature in perception	186

of the Signs used in other acquired perceptions	193

CONCLUSION	201

D PERCEPTION PROPER AND SENSATION PROPER	208

BESSAYS ON THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF	213

F ON LOCKES NOTION OF THE CREATION OF MATTER 924	217

PRELIMINARY	219

I ON THE HISTORY OF THE TERMS CONSCIOUSNESS ATTENTION	232

ESSAY IIOF THE POWERS WE HAVE BY MEANS OF OUR EXTERNAL SENSES	245

K THAT THE TERMS IMAGE IMPRESSION TYPE c IN PHILO	257

T ON THE QUALITY OF NECESSITY AS A CRITERION OF	259

W THE SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION TO BE STUDIED BEFORE	267

ADDENDA 989	294

Second Argument 620	300

Occasion and grounds of the Discussion 715	314

Of the Fallacy of the Senses	334

Things obvious and certain with regard to Memory	339

of the idea of Duration	346

Theories concerning Memory	353

OF CONCEPTION	360

Laws of Mental Succession as General A Not of Reproduc	380

OF ABSTRAaction	389

INTRODUCTION 721	406

Third Argument 622	411

OF JUDGMENT	413

History after the Reformation 727	417

OF MORALS	422

ACCOUNT OF ARISTOTLES LOGIC	434

REMARKS	452

OF REASONING	475

Of Taste in general	490

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Title	The Works of Thomas Reid: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Reid: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters, Sir William Hamilton
Author	Thomas Reid
Editors	Sir William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart
Contributor	Sir William Hamilton
Edition	7, reprint
Publisher	Maclachlan and Stewart, 1872
Original from	Northwestern University
Digitized	2 Apr 2011
Length	1034 pages

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