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Analysis of 22 (olume

Reason.

The most important of our intelthat which gives

Lectual

powers

man his rank in y scale of beings

are

great

It's extent In proportion to it's importance
& difficulty it's extent difficulty - both two
to be fully discussed in this work.

Rule of

the Give every faculty & operation of Author in regard the maine which has been given it by author in reyoud good writers-fix its definition & use to ambiguous it constantly in the same sense

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hood & night from wrong; & by who we are;
enabled to combine

ment of an end.
means for & attain-
tw. Hume thinks reason is not em-

ployed in distinguishing right from
wrong
in actions. This is done by mor- resum
Reason is sometimes used for y discur-

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reasoning

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The author user reason for of power by distinguist truth from falsehood, means for & attainmentopends.

& combine means.

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ployed in i investigation of truth.
a power wholly
By Lock Fothers it is made to include
imagination, memory, I all powers call-
ed intellectual in distinction from auction
Understanding & Intellet often und
synony
mous. The latter to be preferred, because Liss
equivocal.

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Analysis of second volume Judgment sometimes confounded with uncer standing. The dif. but. them is of univer

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standing implies

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Judgment.

positive abil.

Taste in i fine arts often called judgement By logical writers judgment denotes an assent of if mind to a

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proposition, whether as

true or false. as probable or improbable. Me Locke restrict judgment to & face

culty, by

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judge of doubtful proportion

Chapter First.

Fundamental These ༼༤ ༢. .

laws of belief 1 Mathematical axioms

biking 2. Truth, connected with Consuousness.

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485.00 Memory;

Axioms dif. It is difficult to form
ficult to be
explamid

on

Perception
& Reasoning

an exact critimon

by wh. axioms may be distinguished from

account of thin certain other propositions.

simplicity - Propositions who approach neovest to mox most difficult to be demonstratic. The truth of every

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Axions formed some of its particular applications.
The geneval proposition is therefore

a verbal

by generalization generalization of wh. has been before admitted as

Definition.

true in particular instance.

Axioms, though us

useful.

in mathing,

are dang

aus in other branches of seiner, where our
ideas are less char & preuse.

Definitions & not axion are
of moth: sume.

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Math: evidenn not resolvable into iden

tity

Analysis of

second volume

1 Definition of Principle denotes an principle wh. as a catum,

Defference bet

principles &

creds.

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assumption.

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on

process of reasoning pro

Ivom principles of reasoning consequences be deduced -- from elements of reasoning

may

they

never can.

- Principles foren i hook or elements. brom cot: suports & chain of reasoning tele

ments i succession links.

Section second.

Proper objects we are consicons of ichas, passions, de of Consciousness sives, parposes be, but we have not in

Irimary truther

I connected with

peverption

mediate consciousness of our own existence

or mental identity.

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Personal identity involves & idea of time,

presupposes memory, as well as consiconsnes All attempts to prove our existence or personal identity must be petile.

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Belief in the existence of material. objects, independent of percipient beings. Belief in the continued uniformity of the laws of nature.

Primary, truth; Confidence in the fidelity, with which

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without this ultimate truth there wd.. demonstrative knowledge.

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Two analogues it From neither of these classes of truster

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inference be deduned for i enlargement of human knowledge.

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ing & order of nature, we

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existence of & material world, & in i com tinuence of y laws, by which it is regulated, 7

Malysis of second volum.

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