Synopsis
Explore the nature of truth and the mind's certainty in this rigorous study of how we know.
This volume surveys the idea of being as the foundation of knowledge, investigates what we mean by truth in many senses, and explains how our first principles of reason shape all other beliefs. It also looks at how people persuade themselves of truth or error, from innate ideas to the influence of authority and language.
- Learn how intellectual evidence is defined as the necessary insight that compels belief in first principles.
- See how deduction and proof work for both self-evident and derived propositions.
- Understand the distinction between inner certainty and external persuasion, including common sources of error.
- Discover how the author analyzes the causes of error and the safeguards that can guard judgment.
This edition is suitable for those seeking a thoughtful, historical approach to the origins of ideas and the logic behind our beliefs.
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Excerpt from The Origin of Ideas, Vol. 3
In the two preceding volumes I think I have fulfilled all that I had promised to the readers of this work. I have pointed out and described in full detail the exact nature of the difficulty which must be faced in dealing properly with the question of the Origin of ideas (41 -45). I have given a history of that question (41-384), and also offered a Theory in solution of it (385-1039). In this Theory I found, that what had been so often asserted, and so often denied, was true - namely, that there is in the human spirit something concreated with it, and constituting it intelligent; but at the same time I saw and demonstrated that this concreated or innate element was more simple than had been opined or suspected by even the ablest thinkers. Then, by deeper research into 'What this most simple element might be,' which had escaped the notice of so many other philosophers, and had therefore been denied by them altogether, I discovered that it must consist and did in fact consist, in an idea which constituted the One Only Form of the human Intellect and the human Reason. I might now, therefore, lay down my pen and close this Treatise. Nevertheless, I cannot permit myself to do so without deducing from the said Theory some corollaries which spontaneously flow from it, and are of the greatest importance, especially in our times.
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