Chapter II: Introduction: To Part III

I. RETROSPECT 133

II. REASON AND CAUSATION 134

III. LESLIE STEPHEN, AND LOCKE’S APHORISM 136

IV. REASON AND EMPIRICAL AGNOSTICISM 145

LECTURE VI

PERCEPTION, COMMON SENSE, AND SCIENCE

I. COMMON SENSE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD 149

II. SCIENCE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD 153

III. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES 156

IV. PERCEPTION AS A CAUSAL SERIES 160

V. PERCEPTION AS A COGNITIVE ACT 165

VI. AN IRRESISTIBLE ASSUMPTION 170

LECTURE VII

PROBABILITY, CALCULABLE AND INTUITIVE

I. MATHEMATICIANS AND PROBABILITY 175

II. CALCULABLE PROBABILITY 178

III. INTUITIVE PROBABILITY 189

LECTURE VIII

UNIFORMITY AND CAUSATION

I. HABIT, EXPECTATION, INDUCTION 192

II. REGULARITY, CAUSATION 195

III. THE PRINCIPLE OF NEGLIGIBILITY 199

IV. CAUSATION AND FOREKNOWLEDGE 207

LECTURE IX

TENDENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF

I. FROM BELIEFS THAT WE MUST HOLD TO BELIEFS THAT WE
ARE INCLINED TO HOLD 217

II. ATOMISM. BELIEFS OF CONSERVATION 220

III. EPILOGUE 238

PART IV

_SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION_

LECTURE X

I. HUMANISM AND THEISM 247

II. THE DOCTRINE OF CONGRUITY 249

III. IS THIS SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY? 261

IV. CONCLUSION 268

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