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ELEMENTS

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF

THE HUMAN MIND.

IN TWO PARTS.

BY

DUGALD STEWART,

PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE DIVERSITY, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OY
SCIENCES AT. ST. PETERSBURGH ; AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA.

9 New Edition.

BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE, & CO.
NEW YORK : COLLINS, BROTHER AND CO.--ROBINSON, PRATT
AND CO. PHILADELPHIA : GRIGG AND ELLIOT.

1843.

CHAPTER V.--OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

PAGE
. 170

Part I.-OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATION IN REGULATING THE Succes-

SION OF OUR Thoughts.

.

Sect. I.-General Observations on this part of our Constitution, and on the

Language of Philosophers with respect to it

11.-Of the Principles of Association among our Ideas

III.--Of the Power which the Mind has over the Train of its Thoughts 181

IV.-Illustrations of the Doctrine stated in the preceding Section 184

2. Of Poetical Fancy

4. Of Invention in the Arts and Sciences

V.-Application of the Principles stated in the foregoing Sections of

this Chapter, to explain the Phenomena of Dreaming

Part II.-OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATION ON THE INTELLECTUAL

AND ON THE ACTIVE POWERS.

Sect. I.--Of the Influence of casual Associations on our speculative Con.

11.—Of the Influence of the Association of Ideas on our Judgments in

Matters of Taste

III.–Of the Influence of Association on our active Principles and on

our moral Judgments

IV.-General Remarks on the Subjects treated in the foregoing Sec-

tions of this Chapter

CHAPTER VI.-OF MEMORY.

Sect. I.-General Observations on Memory

II.-Of the Varieties of Memory in different Individuals

III.---Of the Improvement of Memory – Analysis of the Principles on

which the Culture of Memory depends

11.-Continuation of the same Subject.—of the Aid which the Mema-

ry derives from Philosophical Arrangement

V-Continuation of the same Subjeci.- Effects produced on the Mem-

ory by committing to Writing our acquired Knowledge

VI.-Continuation of the same Subject.–Of Artificial Memory

VII.-Continuation of the same Subject.-Importance of making a prop-

er Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge, in order to derive

Advantage from the Acquisitions of Memory

VIII.—Of the Connexion between Memory and Philosophical Genius 305

CHAPTER VII.-OF IMAGINATION.

Sect. I.-Analysis of Imagination

11.- Of Imagination considered in its Relation to some of the Fine Arts 316

III.—Continuation of the same subject.- Relation of Imagination and

of Taste to Genius

IV. of the Influence of Imagination On Iluman Character and Hap-

v. -Continuation of the same Subject.-Inconveniences resulting

from an ill-regulated Imagination

VI.-Continuation of the same Subject

. – Important Uses to which the

Power of Imagination is subservient

.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART.

OF REASON, OR THE UNDERSTANDING, PROPERLY SO CALLED; AND THE VA-

RIOCs FaculTIES AND OPERATIONS MORE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH IT 341

Preliminary Observations on the Vagueness and Ambiguity of the common

Philosophical Language relative to this part of our Constitution. Reason

and Reasoning, Understanding, Intellect, Judgment, &c.

CHAPTER I.-OF THE FUNDAMENTAL Laws of HUMAN BELIEF; OR THE

PRIMARY ELEMENTS OF HUMAN REASON

Sect. I.-Of mathematical Axioms

11.-Continuation of the same Subject

II.–Of certain Laws of Belief, inseparably connected with the exercise

of Consciousness, Memory, Perception, and Reasoning

III.-Continuation of the Subject.-Critical Remarks on some late Con.

troversies to which it has given rise.—Of the Appeals which Dr.

Reid and some other Modern Writers have inade in their Philoso-

phical Discussions, to Common Sense, as a Criterion of Truth 375

CHAPTER 11.-OF REASONING AND OF DEDcCTIVE EVIDENCE

ibid.
1. Doubts with respect to Locke's Distinction between the Powers

of Intuition and of Reasoning

11. Conclusions obtained by a Process of Deduction often mistaken

for Intuitive Judgments

Il.-Of General Reasoning

1. Illustrations of some Remarks formerly stated in treating of Ab-

ibid.
II. Continuation of the Subjeci.–Of Language considered as an In-

strument of thought

III. Continuation of the Subject.–Visionary Theories of some Logi-

cians, occasioned by their inattention to the Essential Distinc-

tion between Mathematics and other Sciences

IV. Continuation of the Subject.-Peculiar and supereminent Advan-

tages possessed by Mathematicians, in consequence of their defi-

nite Phraseology

III._Of Mathematical Demonstration

I. Of the circumstance on which Demonstrative Evidence essentially

II. Continuation of the subject.—How far it is true that all Mathema-

tical Evidence is resolvable into Identical Propositions

III. Continuation of the Subject.—Evidence of the Mechanical Philoso.

phy, not to be confounded with that which is properly called

Demonstrative or Mathematical. -Opposite Error of some late

IV.-Of our Reasonings concerning Probable or Contingent Truths 453

I. Narrow Field of Demonstrative Evidence.-Of Demonstrative Evi-

dence, when combined with that of Sense, as in Practical Geome-

try: and with those of Sense and of Induction, as in the Mecha-

nical Philosophy.-Remarks on a Fundamental Law of Belief,

involved in all our Reasonings concerning Contingent 'Truths ibid.

II. Continuation of the Subject.-Of that Permanence or Stability in

the Order of Nature, which is presupposed in our Reasonings

concerning Contingent Truths

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