Fundamental Philosophy, Volume 1 [you are here] CONTENTS OF VOL. I. BOOK FIRST. ON CERTAINTY. I. Importance and Utility of the Question of Certainty 3 II. True State of the Question 7 III. Certainty of the Human Race and Philosophical Certainty 14 IV. Existence of Transcendental Science in the Absolute Intellectual Order 24 V. Transcendental Science in tho Human Intellectual Order cannot emanate from the Senses 32 VI. Transcendental Science. — Insufficiency of Real Truths 37 VII. The Philosophy of the Me cannot produce Transcendental Science 41 VIII. Universal Identity 55 IX. Universal Identity, — Continued. 64 X. Problem of Representation : Monads of Leibnitz 67 XI. Problem of Representation examined 71 XII. Immediate Intelligibility. 76 XIII. Representation of Causality and Ideality 83 XIV. Impossibility of Finding the first Principle in the Ideal Order 89 XV. The Indispensable Condition of all Human Knowledge. — Means of perceiving Truth 92 XVI. Confusion of Ideas in Disputes on the Fundamental Principle 102 XVII. Thought and Existence. — Descartes* Principle 105 XVIII. The Principle of Descartes, continued. — His Method 111 XIX. Value of the Principle, I Think: — Its Analysis 118 XX. True Sense of the Principle of Contradiction.— Knot's Opinion 126 XXI Does the Principle of Contradiction merit the Title of Fundamental? and if so, in what Sense? 140 XXII. The Principle of Evidence 146 XXIII. The Criterion of Consciousness 161 XXIV. The Criterion cf Evidence 167 XXV. The Objective Value^of Ideas 168 XXVI. Can all Cognitions be reduced to the Perception of Identity? 171 XXVII. Continuation of the same subject 176 XXVIII. Continuation of the same subject 188 XXIX. Are there true Synthetic Judgments a priori in the Sense of Kant? 188 XXX. Vico's Criterion 200 XXXI. Continuation of the same subject 212 XXXII. The Criterion of Common Sense 219 XXXIII. Error of Lamennais on Common Consent 280 XXXIV. Summary and Conclusion 268 BOOK SECOND. ON SENSATION. I. Sensation in Itself 249 II. Matter is incapable of Sensation. 266 III. Sleep and Waking 268 IV. Relation of Sensations to an External World 267 V. An Idealist Hypothesis 278 VI. Is the External and Immediate Cause of Sensations a Free Cause? 276 VII. Analysis of the Objectiveness of Sensations 279 VIII. Sensation of Extension 288 IX. Objectiveness of the Sensation of Extension 287 X. Force of Touch to make Sensations Objective 298 XI. Inferiority of Touch compared with other Senses 296 XII. Can Sight alone give us the Idea of a Surface? 802 XIII. Cheselden's Blind Man 810 XIV. Can Sight give us the Idea of a Solid? 816 XV. Sight and Motion 319 XVI. Possibility of other Senses 324 XVII. Existence of New Senses 328 XVIII. Solution of Lamennais' Objection 338 BOOK THIRD. EXTENSION AND SPACE. I. Extension Inseparable from the Idea of Body 339 II. Extension not Perceptible as the Direct and Immediate Object of Sensations. 345 III. Scientific Fruitfulness of the Idea of Extension 348 IV. Reality of Extension 357 V. Geometrical Exactness Realized in Nature 360 VI. Remarks on Extension 366 VII. Space. — Nothing 369 VIII. Descartes and Leibnitz on Space 375 IX. Opinion of those who attribute to Space a Nature distinct from Bodies 380 X. Opinion of those who hold Space to be the Immensity of God 382 XI. Fenelon's Opinion 386 XII. What Space consists in 391 XIII. New Difficulties 396 XIV. Another Important Consequence 400 XV. Illusion of Fixed Points in Space 403 XVI. Observations on Kant's Opinion 407 XVII. Inability of Kant's Doctrine to solve the Problem of the Possibility of Experience 416 XVIII. The Problem of Sensible Experience 418 XIX. Extension abstracted from Phenomena 421 XX. Are there Absolute Magnitudes? 427 XXI. Pure Intelligibility of the Extended World 432 XXII. Infinite Divisibility. 486 XXIII. Unextended Points 439 XXIV. A Conjecture on the Transcendental Notion of Extension 442 XXV. Harmony of the Real, Phenomenal, and Ideal Orders 446 XXVI. Character of the Relations of the Real Order to the Phenomenal 450 XXVII. Whether every Thing must be in some Place 452 XXVIII. Contingency of Corporeal Relations. 459 XXIX. Solution of two Difficulties 462 XXX. Passive Sensibility 466 XXXI. Possibility of a greater Sphere in active Sensibility 469 XXXII. Possibility of the Penetration of Bodies. 480 XXXIII. A Triumph of Religion in the Field of Philosophy 488 XXXIV. Conclusion and Summing up 489 Notes to Book First 495 Note to Book Second 514 Notes to Book Third 517

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