The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences. - Summary from Subtitle
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Chapters
1 Preface 13 min 2 Of the Nature of Ideas 4 min 3 Of the Objects of Perception 26 min 4 Of the Several Sorts of Perceptions or Ideas 29 min 5 Of Words, and Their Several Divisions, Together with the Advantage and Danger of Them 42 min 6 General Directions Relating to Our Ideas 12 min 7 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 1 32 min 8 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 2 38 min 9 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 3 27 min 10 Of the Nature of a Proposition, and Its Several Parts 8 min 11 Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 1 29 min 12 Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 2 30 min 13 The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 1 19 min 14 The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 2 54 min 15 General Directions to Assist Us in Judging Aright 32 min 16 Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 1 24 min 17 Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 2 23 min 18 Of the Nature of a Syllogism, and the Parts of Which It is Composed 6 min 19 Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 1 27 min 20 Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 2 18 min 21 The Doctrine of Sophisms 20 min 22 Some General Rules to Direct Our Reasoning 20 min 23 The Nature and Kinds of Method, viz. Natural and Arbitrary, Synthetic and Analytic 14 min 24 General and Special Rules of Method 27 min
