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SYNOPTICAL TABLE
Page - DEDICATION TO LORD DESKFOORD
395 CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTION
399 - Sec. 1. The importance of the subject, and the means of prosecuting it
ib. - 2. The impediments to our knowledge of the mind
400 - 3. The present state of this part of philosophy. Of Des Cartes, Malebranche, and Locke
403 - 4. Apology for these philosophers
405 - 5. Of Bishop Berkeley; the "Treatise of Human Nature;" and of scepticism
406 - 6. Of the "Treatise of Human Nature"
408 - 7. The system of all these authors is the same, and leads to scepticism
409 - 8. We ought not to despair of a better
410 CHAPTER II. - OF SMELLING
411 - Sec 1. The order of proceeding. Of the medium and organ of smell
ib. - 2. The sensation considered abstractly
412 - 3. Sensation and its remembrance natural principles of belief
413 - 4. Judgment and belief in some cases precede simple apprehension
415 - 5. Two theories of the nature of belief refuted. Conclusions from what hath been said
415 - 6. Apology for metaphysical absurdities. Sensation without a sentient, a consequence of the theory of ideas. Consequences of this strange opinion
418 - 7. The conception and belief of a sentient being or mind, is suggested by our constitution. The notion of relations not always got by comparing the related ideas
422 - 8. There is a quality or virtue in bodies, which we call their smell. How this is connected in the imagination with the sensation
424 - 9. That there is a principle in human nature, from which the notion of this, as well as all other natural virtues or causes, is derived
425 - 10. Whether in sensations the mind is active or passive
428 CHAPTER III. - OF TASTING
430 CHAPTER IV. - OF HEARING
433 - Sec. 1. Variety of sounds. Their place and distance learned by custom, without reasoning
ib. - 2. Of natural language
434 CHAPTER V. - OF TOUCH
437 - Sec. 1. Of heat and cold
ib. - 2. Of hardness and softness
438 - 3. Of natural signs
441 - 4. Of hardness, and other primary qualities
444 - 5. The distinction betwixt primary and secondary qualities hath had several revolutions
ib. - 6. Of extension
445 - 7. Of extension
447 - 8. Of the existence of a material world
449 - 9. Of the systems of philosophers concerning the senses
454 CHAPTER VI. - OF SEEING
457 - Sec. 1. The excellence and dignity of this faculty ib.
2. Sight discovers almost nothing which the blind may not comprehend. The reason of this 459
AN INQUIRY INTO THE HUMAN MIND ON THE PRINCIPLES OF COMMON SENSE.
