James Frederick Ferrier

“ The synthesis of ego and non-ego is original, and not factitious or secondary, 510
PROPOSITION X. ⁠What Absolute Existence is, 511 ⁠Demonstration, 511 ⁠Observations and Explanations, 512 1. This proposition solves the problem of ontology, 512 2. It answers the question; What is Truth?, 513 3. All Existence is the synthesis of the universal and the particular, 514 4. Thus the equation of the Known and the Existent has been proved, 515 5. The coincidence of the Absolute in Existence with the Absolute in Cognition has also been proved, 516 6. ”

“ PROPOSITION VIII. ⁠The Ego in Cognition, 224 ⁠Demonstration, 224
⁠Observations and Explanations, 226 1. A caveat, 226 2. Important law of knowledge, 226 3. Materiality and immateriality. Eighth Counter-proposition, 227 4. Eighth counter-proposition the common property of materialist and spiritualist, 228 5. Early conception of mind as material. Ghosts, clairvoyance, spirit rapping, 229 6. Conception of mind as material substance dismissed, 231 7. Conception of mind as result of organisation: phrenology, 231 8. The spiritualist's conception of mind is as null as the materialist's, 232 9. ”

“ The anti-sensual psychology merely restricts the counter-proposition—leaves the contradiction uncorrected, 263 8. The root of the mischief. History of distinction between sense and intellect, 264 9. Aim and procedure of Greek metaphysics, 264 10. A rule for the historian of philosophy, 266 11. This rule observed in these Institutes, 266 12. Return to history of distinction between sense and intellect, 267 13. Illustration of early Greek doctrine, 269 14. The old philosophers were right in their problem—in their way of working it, and in fixing sense as the faculty of nonsense, 270 15. ”

“ Psychological opinion as to our knowledge of matter per se, 123 6. Psychological materialism as founded on the four counter-propositions, 124 7. Fallacy of materialism. Possibility of idealism as founded on the four propositions, 125 8. A preliminary question prejudged by materialist and by idealist, 126 9. Cause of this precipitate judgment. Its evil consequences, 127 10. How Prop. IV. decides this preliminary question. How Counter-proposition IV. decides it, 128 11. Symbols illustrative of the position maintained by the Institutes, 128 12. ”

“ Its answer is the absolute starting-point, and forms the first proposition of these Institutes, 75
SECTION I.
THE EPISTEMOLOGY, OR THEORY OF KNOWING.
PROPOSITION I. ⁠The Primary Law or Condition of All Knowledge, 79 ⁠Observations and Explanations, 79 1. Prop. I. answers the first question of philosophy, 79 2. It expresses the most general and essential law of all knowledge, 80 3. It declares that self-consciousness is never entirely suspended when the mind knows anything, 81 4. Objection that self-consciousness seems at times to be extinct, 81 5. ”

“ The polemical character of this system, 31 39. Why philosophy must be polemical. She exists only to correct the inadvertencies of ordinary thinking, 32 40. This might be abundantly proved by the testimony of philosophers, 33 41. The object (or business to do) of philosophy renders her essentially polemical, 33 42. The charge of disrespect which might be supposed to attach to philosophy on account of her polemical character, obviated, 34 43. This system also adverse to psychology—and why, 34 44. What philosophy has to do, again distinctly stated, 36 45. ”

“ Why philosophy undertakes this object, 38 47. How philosophy goes to work. Adherence to canon—proposition and counter-proposition, 38 48. Further explanations as to how philosophy goes to work, 40 49. ”

“ How the starting-point is reached, 67 78. Plato, in Theætetus, fails to reach the starting-point, 68 79. Search for the starting-point, 69 80. Why the question—What is knowledge? cannot be the starting-point, 71 81. ”