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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Volume 1

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William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - Classical education - 555 pages

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PREFACE to this Edition	3

OF THE STANDARD OF TRuth	23

Of Mathematical Reafoning	44

Of the evidence of External fenfe	50

Of the evidence of Internal fenfe	57

Of the evidence of Memory	76

Of Reasoning from the Effect to	85

Of Probable or Experimental Rea	103

The fubject continued Intuitive	179

CHA P II	191

progrefs of modern Scepticifm	192

Of the Nonexistence of Matter	231

Of Liberty and Neceffity	261

Recapitulation and Inference	327

PART III	333

The fubject continued Eftimate of	361

Of Analogical Reafoning	109

Conclufion of this chapter Fur	120

PART II	134

Of Natural Philofophers	147

CHAP	420

Confequences of Metaphyfical Scepti	431

POSTSCRIPT	446

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Title	Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Volume 1 Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, James Beattie
Author	James Beattie
Publisher	William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	9 Aug 2013
Length	555 pages

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