CONTENTS.
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| INTRODUCTION. | ||
| 1. | The word "Philosophy" as here employed, | 1 |
| 2. | The two main requisitions of philosophy, | 1 |
| 3. | Which of them is the more stringent, | 2 |
| 4. | The value of systems determined by a reference to these requisitions | 2 |
| 5. | An unreasoned system of no value, because at variance with definition of philosophy, | 3 |
| 6. | Because, though true, it cannot be certain, | 3 |
| 7. | Because of no use as a mental discipline, | 3 |
| 8. | A reasoned system, though not true, has some value as an exercise of reason, | 4 |
| 9. | It complies more closely with definition of philosophy than the other, | 4 |
| 10. | But a system should be both true and reasoned, | 5 |
| 11. | Systems of philosophy are unreasoned hitherto, | 5 |
| 12. | The present state of philosophy described, | 6 |
| 13. | First, How is this state to be explained? Secondly, How remedied? | 7 |
| 14. | First, it is explained (§§ 14–31) by philosophy not being reasoned, | 8 |
| 15. | No good can be expected so long as philosophy is not reasoned, | 8 |
| 16. | The masks of philosophy, | 9 |
| 17. | Its unsatisfactory state further accounted for. The globe of speculation, | 11 |
| 18. | Explanation continued. First principles always come out last, | 12 |
| 19. | Illustrations of this from language and grammar, | 13 |
| 20. | Illustration continued, | 14 |
| 21. | Illustration from logic, | 15 |
| 22. | Illustration from law, | 15 |
| 23. | Application to philosophy. Here, too, first principles come out last, | 16 |
| 24. | These principles, though operative in philosophy, are unnoticed and unknown, | 17 |
| 25. | Hence philosophy is nowhere a scheme reasoned throughout, | 18 |
| 26. | The repudiation of necessary truths, a further retarding cause, | 19 |
| 27. | What necessary truth is, . | 20 |
| 28. | Its criterion is "the law of contradiction." Law explained, | 21 |
| 29. | Its criterion is not ready acceptance, | 22 |
