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Chapter XIV: NOMINALISM--Berkeley's Nominalism, and

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objections thereto--Concrete Thought expressed in general
terms 46

XV Generalisation the bane of European
philosophy--Plato's theories on General Ideas--Aristotle's
'Essence'--Classification a means, not the end of Reason--The
explanatory Unity a unity of service--Evolution a concrete
Platonism 58

IMAGINATION

XVI How distinguished from Recollection and
Reverie--Imagination by Simple
Combination--By Transfusion--Artistic Imagination--Rational
Imagination--Wrong views of Metaphysicians 63

DIALECTIC

XVII Recapitulation of the genealogy of Reason--It
is the art of conceiving the Future and Unknown--Dialectic
the science of Reason--Division of theorems into
Arguments and Fallacies--Method of Dialectic 68

XVIII The RATIONAL PARALLEL--Rational
Conclusions are never certain--Essential parts of an
Argument--Rules of Parallel--False conclusions cannot
be destroyed but may be stigmatised--In what
circumstances we may reason concerning a known fact 74

XIX Hypothetical Arguments--Current errors
with respect to these--Dilemma 80

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