Preface
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| 1. The Backward State of Metaphysics 1
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| 2. The Problems of Metaphysics 6
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BOOK I. ONTOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY
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A. Tychism
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| CHAPTER 1. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THEORIES
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| 1. Philosophic Architectonic
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| 2. Three Theories of Evolution
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| 3. The Law of Habit
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| 4. Objective Idealism
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| 5. The Nature of Space
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| 6. First, Second, and Third
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| CHAPTER 2. THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY EXAMINED
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| 1. The Mechanical Philosophy
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| 2. Necessity Considered as a Postulate
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| 3. The Observational Evidence for Necessitarianism
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| 4. Absolute Chance
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| CHAPTER 3. CAUSATION AND FORCE
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| 1. Physical Causation
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| 2. Psychical Causation
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| 3. Non-Conservative Forces
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| 4. Fortuitous Distributions
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| 5. Space
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| 6. Time
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| CHAPTER 4. VARIETY AND UNIFORMITY
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| 1. Variety
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| 2. Uniformity
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B. Synechism and Agapism
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| CHAPTER 5. THE LAW OF MIND
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| 1. Introduction
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| 2. What the Law Is
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| 3. Individuality of Ideas
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| 4. Continuity of Ideas
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| 5. Infinity and Continuity, in General
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| 6. Analysis of Time
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| 7. That Feelings Have Intensive Continuity
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| 8. That Feelings Have Spatial Extension
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| 9. Affections of Ideas
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| 10. Ideas Cannot be Connected Except by Continuity
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| 11. Mental Law Follows the Forms of Logic
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| 12. Uncertainty of Mental Action
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| 13. Restatement of the Law
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| 14. Personality 155
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| 15. Communication 158
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| 16. Conclusion 163
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| CHAPTER 6. THE CONTINUUM
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| 1. Kant's Definition
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| 2. Synechism
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| 3. Continuity Redefined
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| 4. Achilles and the Tortoise
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| CHAPTER 7. THE LOGIC OF CONTINUITY
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| 1. Potential Aggregates
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| 2. The Logic of the Universe
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| 3. Circular Continua; Time and Space
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| CHAPTER 8. OBJECTIVE LOGIC
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| 1. The Origin of the Universe
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| 2. Quale-Consciousness
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| CHAPTER 9. MAN'S GLASSY ESSENCE
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| 1. The Constitution of Matter
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| 2. Protoplasm
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| 3. The Physiology of Habit
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| 4. Tychistic Idealism
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| 5. The Nature of Personality
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| CHAPTER 10. MIND AND MATTER
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| 1. The Connection between Mind and Matter
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| 2. The Materialistic Aspect of Reasoning
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| CHAPTER 11. EVOLUTIONARY LOVE
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| 1. At First Blush. Counter-Gospels
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| 2. Second Thoughts. Irenica 296
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| 3. A Third Aspect. Discrimination
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| CHAPTER 12. NOTES ON METAPHYSICS
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| 1. Relations and Relationships
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| 2. Mathematical and Real Time
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| 3. Externality and Reality
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| 4. Dyadic and Triadic Action
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| 5. Essence and Existence
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| 6. Modes of Being
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| 7. Reality and Existence
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| 8. Truth, Being, and Nothing
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| 9. Matter and Form
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| 10. Possibility, Impossibility, and Possible
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| 11. Virtual
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| 12. Unity and Plurality
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| 13. Whole and Parts
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| 14. Kind
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| 15. Perseity and Per Se
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| 16. Priority, Prior, and Prius
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| 17. Proximate
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| 18. Sufficient Reason
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BOOK II. RELIGION
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| CHAPTER 1. THE ORDER OF NATURE
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| 1. The Significance of Order
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| 2. Uniformities
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| 3. Induction
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| 4. Mind and Nature
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| 5. Design
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| CHAPTER 2. A RELIGION OF SCIENCE
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| 1. The Marriage of Religion and Science
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| 2. What is Christian Faith?
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| 3. The Church
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| CHAPTER 3. A NEGLECTED ARGUMENT FOR THE REALITY OF GOD
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| 1. Musement
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| 2. The Hypothesis of God
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| 3. The Three Stages of Inquiry
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| 4. The Validity of the Three Stages
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| 5. Pragmaticism
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| 6. Additamen
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| 7. Knowledge of God
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| CHAPTER 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING MY BELIEF IN GOD
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| 1. The Reality of God
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| 2. Creation
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| 3. God's Purpose
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| 4. Omniscience
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| 5. Omnipotence
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| 6. Infallibility
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| 7. Miracles
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| 8. Prayer
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| 9. Immortality
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| CHAPTER 5. HUME ON MIRACLES
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| 1. The Nature of Hypotheses
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| 2. The Testing of Hypotheses
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| 3. The Meaning of Miracles
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| 4. Butler's Analogy
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| CHAPTER 6. SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY
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| 1. Psychic Research
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| 2. The Breakdown of the Mechanical Philosophy
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| CHAPTER 7. LOGIC AND SPIRITUALISM
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APPENDIX
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| A. Reply to the Necessitarians; Rejoinder to Dr. Carus
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| B. Nominalism Versus Realism
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| C. What is Meant by "Determined"?
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