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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| pages | ||
| Introduction | 1-7 | |
| Preliminary objections to metaphysics answered. The task is not impossible, 2, or indefensible, 3-7. | ||
Book I. Appearance. | ||
| Primary and Secondary Qualities | 11-18 | |
| Attempt to explain error by taking primary qualities alone as real, 11. The secondary shown to be unreal, 12-14. But the primary have no independent existence, 14-17, save as useful fictions, 17-18. | ||
| II. | Substantive and Adjective | 19-24 |
| Problem of Inherence. Relation between the thing and its qualities is unintelligible, 19-24. | ||
| III. | Relation and Quality | 25-34 |
| I. Qualities without relations are unintelligible. They cannot be found, 26-27. They cannot be got bare legitimately, 27-28, or at all, 28-30. II. Qualities with relations are unintelligible. They cannot be resolved into relations, 30, and the relations bring internal discrepancies, 31. III. Relations with, or without, qualities are unintelligible, 32-34. | ||
| IV. | Space and Time | 35-43 |
| Their psychological origin is irrelevant, 35. Space is inconsistent because it is, and is not, a relation, 36-38, and its connection with other content is unintelligible, 38. Time, as usually taken, has the same vices, 39, 40. And so has Time taken otherwise, for the "now" is self-inconsistent, 40-43. |
