INDEX

Analysis and synthesis, 117-119

Animation, not behaviour, 244-246; an expression of mechanism, not a substitute, 246, 247; conceived dramatically, 248, 249

Anthropomorphism excusable, 147, 148

Appearance, two senses of the word, 39, 43

Apperception, timeless, 24, 25, 28-30; its physical ground, 282

Arabian Nights, 67, 160, 305

Aristotle, his metaphysics, vii; identifies essence with intuition, 126-129; on God, 130, 131; on substance, 190; on entelechies, 217

Arts, creative like the senses, 87, 102

Astronomy, good for moralists, 307

Behaviour, theme of scientific psychology, 243-246

Belief, not implied in intuition, 16; enacted before it is asserted, 264

Berkeley, alluded to, 58; his direct intuition, 68; his nominalism, 97

Brahma, 18, 19, 51

British and German philosophy criticises perception, not memory, 13; only literature, 254

Buddhism, 306

Causation, 210

Change, feeling of it not a change, 25; known by faith only, 26; may be illusion, 30; fallacious disproofs of it, 31, 32

Common sense, roughly sound, v

Contingency of all existence, 134, 135

Contradiction an essence of discourse, 121, 137

Criticism, empirical and transcendental, 3, 4; arises by conflict of dogmas, 8; depends on literary psychology, 187; should appeal to living beliefs, 305

Data, non-existentials, 45; universals, 54; their basis cerebral, 56

Dateless, defined, 270

Democritus, ix, 55

Demonstration, assumes discourse, 115-119

Descartes, 17; doubts facts only, 289; cogito ergo sum, 290-293

Dialectic, not true unless descriptive, 28; involves belief in memory, 119, 120

Discourse, an event, 119; involved in positing anything, 124; distinguished late, 193

Dogma, how precipitated, 6

Empiricism admits substance, 199-201

Entelechy, 130, 217

Error distinguishes discourse from its objects, 123

Esse est percipi, 58

Essences adumbrated, 35, 38, 39, 48; simile of the costumer’s shop, 70-72; introduced, 73, 74; defined further, 75-78; necessary terms in knowledge, 80-82; of any complexity, 116, 262; infinitely comminuted, 129; without inherent values, 130; not limited to Platonic ideas, 225

Eternal, defined, 271

Eternity, 112

Euclid, 86, 121; his space, 116, 117

Events involve substance, 230-232

Everlasting, defined, 271

Evidence, two meanings, 43, 44, 99

Existence, the sense of it, 24, 25, 187, 188; not a datum, 34-38; presence to intuition neither sufficient for it nor necessary, 45-47; its physical definition, 48; odious to logic, 48, 206; name for an object of faith, 42; felt as pure Being posited, 273

Expectation, irrational as hunger, 36

Experience, use of the word, 138; naturally conditioned, transcendentally primary, 23, 24; conceived as a life, 57; is discourse interrupted by shocks, 143; belief in it imposed by instinct, not by experience itself, 144; its primitive texture, 188, 189; imagined experience hypostatised, 255, 256; reduced to blank feeling or extended to dreams, 260

Explanation, 208

Fact, 228, 229; never a datum, 91; denied if regarded as a concept, 60

Faith prior to intuition, 107

Fichte, 62, 63, 184, 185

Future, an assumption, 36; rash notion of it, 235

God assimilated to nature, 237; to truth, 268; to the spirit of a cosmos, 130, 131

Hamlet, 27, 58, 95

Heraclitus, ix, 29

History, dependent for its validity on physics, 13; interfused with fiction, 160; partly literary psychology, 253

Hume, his sharp intuition, 67, 68; criticism by retrenchment, 293; residual assumptions, 294; analysis of conventions, 295; sophistical result, 296, 297

Ideas not beliefs unless action is suggested, 16; Platonic ideas, 222-224

Identification an act of faith, 117, 119

Identity felt under diverse appearances, 153

Illusion, three ways out of it, 72

Immortal, defined, 271

Indian philosophy, viii, 51-55, 67, 305, 306

Instantaneous, defined, 270

Intelligence expresses animal adjustments, 281

Intent, 100, 137, 166, 167

Interpretation obscures the datum, 67, 68

Introjection, 241

Intuition yields only appearance, 24; denied by sceptics, 58; an expression of animal wakefulness, 133; does not think, 150; may exist behind observable facts, 258; divined by sympathy, 221, 250; most communicable when most articulate, 251

Ionian physics, vii, viii

Kant, 4, 97; his incoherence, 298; his analysis of knowledge, 299, 300; destructive results, 301

Karma, 54

Knowledge, impossible with nothing to know, 60; is symbolical, 95, 96, 98, 101; has a removed object, 154; bridges the flux, 161; its animal basis, 164, 172; may recover essences given elsewhere, 168, 169; not intuition, 170, 171; the object identified by bodily attitude (illustration of the moon), 172-177; though symbolical progressive, 177-179; may be adequate to discourse elsewhere, 207; when pictorially adequate it is still faith, 107

Life of reason, 109, 110

Literary psychology, 174; possibly true, 259; turned into metaphysics, 293, 294

Logic, partly creative, partly descriptive, vi; not coercive over fact, ibid., 2, 3; studies essence, not truth, 262

Memory, presence of the absent, 141; is direct, 151; posits animation, 242; in a natural setting, 150, 158; pictorial exactitude possible but worthless, 152, 153; stationed in the present, which frames the past, 154, 155; may be truer than experience, 156; should be selective, 157; criticised only by fancy, 160

Metaphysics confuses different realms of being, vii, 203, 208, 209, 218

Natural philosophy, vii; present ferment in it, ix; progresses in knowledge, 218; has a poetic side, 234

Nature, the total object of perception, 197, 198; connotations of the word, 234; uniformity of nature an assumption, ibid.; tested and embodied in art, 236, 239

Nirvana, 51

Object, use and misuse of the word, 202, 203

Order of genesis, of discovery, 109; of evidence, 110

Pain, 65, 66, 280

Parmenides, 29, 55, 61

Past, an object of faith, 29; may be illusory, 36, 37

Perception, not intuition but faith expressing a bodily response, 282, 283

Permanence given in experience, 193, 195

Phenomena, in Platonism, 224; in modern philosophy, 225, 226

Plato, 69, 78, 85, 225, 226, 306

Platonic ideas, selected essences, 77; hypostatised, 222-224

Positing, propriety of the term, 184

Primary and secondary qualities, 82-90

Protagoras, 306

Psyche, 19, 147, 156. Cf. Self

Psychologism, 256, 292

Psychology, scientific and literary, 252; supports the non-existence of data, 63-66

Pythagoras, ix

Reality, meaning of the term, 33, 34; eulogistic use of it, 51, 210

Reason, not a force, 186; principle of sufficient reason, 289

Religious dogmas easily doubted, 11, 12

Scepticism, a conflict of dogmas, 8; an accident in philosophy, 9; rich in ideas, 67; a trance state, 69; would be the best philosophy if tenable, 100, 186; deprecated in Christian times, 297

Sceptics in Greece, some sophists, 307; some true philosophers, 308

Schopenhauer, 68

Self, evidence for its existence, 146; may be denied, 148, 290; is obscure, 149; an almost perpetual object, 291

Sensations and ideas, ambiguous uses of the terms, 86-90, 188, 225

Shock, distinguishes experience from pure discourse, 139, 141; prompts to belief in the self and in the object, 142

Socrates, his favourite essences, 78; his utilitarianism in science, 307

Solipsism, untenable if personal, 13; tenable if of the present moment, 15, 16

Sophists, 306

Soul, genesis of the notion, 216; analysis of it, 218-221

Spinoza, right on chief issue, viii; thinks ideas beliefs, 16; defines the realm of essence, 129; a philosopher in the better sense, 305

Spirit, non-existential for transcendentalists, 62; at home in intuition, 125, 126; implied in it, 147; ready to be omniscient, 116; timeless and supernatural in status, 161, 162; distrusts substance but lives by it, 147; is no datum, 272; often more than intuition, 273, 274; expresses animal life, 276-280; is not a substance, 286-288

Spiritual substance, a contradiction, 217; how suggested, ibid.

Substance, posited by intent expressing animal reaction, 106; belief in it primordial, 185, 187; prior to intuition, 188; revealed on its dynamic side, not pictorially, 197; not metaphysical, 201, 202; the material in things, 203; not duplicated by them, 204; explains their genesis and distribution, 209; connects appearances, 212

Surprise, not occasioned by contingency, 136; incompatible with omniscience, 276

Timeless, defined, 270

Transcendentalism, properly a method only, 25; its subject and object false, ibid.; denies all existences, 59-63; its ambiguity, 297, 298; a part of literary psychology, 301; its metaphysical form, 302; must be abandoned in practice, 303; its latent barbarism, 304

Truth, may be conveyed through symbols, 179-181; mistaken for substance, 226-228; possible in literary psychology, 259; not proper to names or values, 263; ignored by supposing things to change with the views of them, 264-266; not an existence, not an opinion, not certitude, but the ultimate description of things in all their relations, 267, 268; the subjective seat of opinions does not jeopardise it, 306; may be loved for its own sake, 307

Unity of apperception, 25

Universals, data of intuition, 91, 93

Universe, not known as a whole, vi; may be a chaos, 235, 237

Vagueness, relative, 94, 95

Variation involves eternal essences, 113, 114

Vedanta, 61

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