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CONTENTS.
| PROPOSITION XII. | ||
| Matter per se again, | 300 | |
| Demonstration, | 300 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 300 | |
| 1. | Why this proposition is introduced, | 301 |
| 2. | On what condition matter per se might be thought of, | 302 |
| 3. | In attempting to think it, we must leave out an element essential to its cognition, and therefore it cannot be thought of, | 303 |
| 4. | How the imagination leads us astray, | 303 |
| 5. | Illustration, | 304 |
| 6. | Self must be represented just as much as it must be presented, | 305 |
| 7. | Twelfth Counter-proposition, | 305 |
| 8. | Its character and downfall, | 306 |
| 9. | Matter per se has no chance of being thought of, | 306 |
| 10. | It cannot be reached by the way of inference, | 307 |
| 11. | Why the discussion respecting matter per se is important, | 307 |
| PROPOSITION XIII. | ||
| The Independent Universe in Thought, | 310 | |
| Demonstration, | 310 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 311 | |
| 1. | This proposition speaks only of what can be conceived, not of what exists, | 311 |
| 2. | It answers the question—what independent universe can be thought of?, | 311 |
| 3. | Why we do not think of things as amorphous when they are absent from us, | 312 |
| 4. | An objection stated, | 313 |
| 5. | Objection obviated. We have a single type—can suppose it repeated, | 314 |
| 6. | Why we cannot cogitate matter per se—no single type, | 315 |
| 7. | We have a single type of objects + subject—can conceive other cases of this, | 315 |
| 8. | Further explanation of how one self can conceive another self, | 316 |
| 9. | A word on Belief, | 318 |
| 10. | Another difficulty obviated, | 318 |
| 11. | Thirteenth Counter-proposition, | 320 |
| PROPOSITION XIV. | ||
| The Phenomenal in Cognition, | 321 | |
| Demonstration, | 321 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 321 | |
| 1. | Fourteenth Counter-proposition, | 321 |
| 2. | A good rule for reaching truth on metaphysical topics, | 322 |
| 3. | The psychological trifling with truth ought to be put a stop to, | 322 |
| 4. | The main object of this and three following propositions, | 323 |
| PROPOSITION XV. | ||
| What the Phenomenal in Cognition is, | 324 | |
| Demonstration, | 324
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