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CONTENTS.
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10. It embodies an inadvertency of natural thinking, 113
11. The psychological position more false and ambiguous than the natural inadvertency, 114
12. The psychological error accounted for, 115
13. Distinction of science of mind and science of matter characterised, 115
14. Invalidity of counter-proposition III. Its origin, §§ 14, 15, 16, 17, 116
15. Many things are distinguishable, which are not separable, in cognition, 117
16. Illustrations applied to subject and object., 118
17. Further illustration, 118
18. Short statement of what this proposition contends for, 119
19. No opinion offered as to existence, 120
PROPOSITION IV.
Matter per se, 121
Demonstration, 121
Observations and Explanations, 122
1. Idealism and materialism have their roots here, 122
2. Fourth Counter-proposition, 122
3. It expresses common opinion as to our knowledge of matter per se, 122
4. Oversight of self only apparent—not real and total, 123
5. Psychological opinion as to our knowledge of matter per se, 123
6. Psychological materialism as founded on the four counter-propositions, 124
7. Fallacy of materialism. Possibility of idealism as founded on the four propositions, 125
8. A preliminary question prejudged by materialist and by idealist, 126
9. Cause of this precipitate judgment. Its evil consequences, 127
10. How Prop. IV. decides this preliminary question. How Counter-proposition IV. decides it, 128
11. Symbols illustrative of the position maintained by the Institutes, 128
12. The same symbols as illustrative of the psychological position, 129
13. Different conclusions from the two positions, 130
14. Difference farther explained, 131
15. Another point of difference between this system and psychology, 132
16. Matter per se reduced to the contradictory, 134
17. This contradiction attaches not only to our knowledge of matter per se, 136
18. But to matter per se itself, 137
19. Advantage of this reduction. New light on the problem of philosophy, 139
20. Importance of finding the contradictory, 140
21. In what sense the contradictory is conceivable, 141
22. Matter per se is not a nonentity, 142
PROPOSITION V.
Matter and its Qualities per se, 144
Demonstration, 144
Observations and Explanations, 144
1. Why Proposition V. is introduced, 144