357; 1o. a classical training required for the three learned professions, 338, Law 340, Medicine 342, Theo- logy 342-350; 2°. efficiency of schools and universities, 339, 350-353. Cockburn (Lord), his evidence on Edinburgh University patronage, 710.
Collegial System, history of, 413, sq. Collegial and Collegiate, words to be distinguished, 413.
Collier (Arthur), his Idealism, 185- 201; his life, 190. Collins (Anthony), unknown treatise by, 186.
Common Sense, 63, sq.; 86, 89, 195. Comprehension and Extension of no- tions. See Logic.
Comte (Auguste), quoted, 309, 310. Conception. We can conceive or think
(have a notion or concept of,) what we are unable to imagine or repre- sent, 13; but what we represent or imagine, that we may think or con- ceive, ib. Not used in Stewart's meaning, 104, 280. Concepts, Notions. See Logic. Conditioned (the), philosophy of, 12, sq., 595, sq.; inverse of the philoso- phy of the Unconditioned, 603, sq.; science of ignorance, ib.; explains Causality, &c., 614, sq.; probably adopted by Aristotle, 630, sq.; eminently religious, 15, 620, sq., 629, sq.
Conditions of Thought, table and de- tail of, 595-603. Consciousness: only of the limited, 19; not a special faculty, 47; de- veloped, constitutes Psychology, 47, 86; facts of, 63, sq., 86; not co-ex- tensive with the soul or mental principle, 252; involves judgment, 603; Aristotle and the older Greeks, with the Romans, until the Latin language ceased to be a living tongue, employed (with rare exceptions) no psychological term for Conscious- ness, 51, sq., 111.
Contingent, the, (in Propositions), de- fined, 701.
Conversation with the Learned, 687, sq. Coplestone (Bishop), his confusion of the Colleges with the University of Oxford, 409; various testimonies by, 409, 411, 444, 752, 792. Cosmothetic Idealism, or Hypothetical Realism, or Hypothetical Dualism, 56, sq., 192.
Coste (Pierre), his explanation of Locke's passage touching the Crea- tion of Matter, 200; quoted, 637.
Cousin his genius and character, 1, 37, 43; his philosophy in general, 1-37; advocate of Rationalism, 7; his doctrine of the Infinito-Absolute, 23, sq.; his report on Prussian Schools, 553-591; his merits as a re- former and promoter of Popular Education, 559, 560; what he has done for France cannot be without benefit for this and other countries, 560; his observations on the law in France for the instruction of the people, 584-590.
Craniology, fundamentally false, 643. Croke (Richard), 209.
Crotus (Rubianus). See Epistolæ O. V. Cudworth (Dr Ralph), an unknown treatise by, 186; on, 310.
Cullen (Dr William), his character, 239-247.
Cultivation of mind in no proportion to
the mind's possession of facts, but in proportion to its energy, 40-42, 331. Curators, academical Patronage and Government through: principles of, 359, sq.; history of, in the more illustrious foreign_Universities, Italian, 367, sq., Dutch, 369, sq., German, 375, sq.; plan of, for ap- plication in Edinburgh, by Author, 393; by Burgh Commissioners, 712,
DALGARNO (George), his writings, 174- 184.
David (the Armenian), 275. Davidson (Dr J. Henry), 723-725. Deaf and Dumb: history of the at- tempts at their education, 175-184; the testimonies by, or in relation to, of Agricola (R.) 176, Aristotle 177, Bacon 180, Bonnet (P.) 179, Bulwer (J.) 180, Dalgarno 181, Digby (Sir K.) 177, Epée (Abbé de l') 181, Fab- ricius ab Aquapendente 179, Galen 176, Holder 181, Lana 179, Molin- æus (the jurist) 176, Montanus (P.) 179, Pontius (P.) 177, Robertson (Father) 180, Stewart (D.) 181, 182, Vallesius (F.) 177, Vives 177, Wal- lis 179.
Degree or Intension, as a condition of thought, 602, sq.
De Morgan (Prof.), as a logical critic and reasoner, 672-706.
Depth and Breadth of notions. See Logic.
Des Cartes. See Cartes. Diagrams, Aristotle's syllogistic, re- stored, 664, sq. Dialectic. See Logic.
Disputation, as an exercise of mind, 769, sq.
Disruption, The," 348, 391. Dissenters. See Universities, English. Doce ut Discas, 355, 775, sq.
Doubt, the condition of knowledge, 630. Dousa (Janus), as Curator of Leyden, 372, 8q.
Downam (Bishop), 121; his error, 668. Duncan (Mark), his character as a logi- cian, &c., 120, 121. Duncan (William), 121.
Durell (John), on the prohibition to preach from the Apocalypse, in the French Reformed Church, 519. Durham, "University" of, has no legal right to grant Degrees, 486, sq.
EDINBURGH, University of: its defects, 351, 382-386, 396, 707-734; its De- grees in Arts, 714, sq.; in Medicine, 342, 365, 717, sq.; how given now, 728, sq.; by what means these de- grees might be restored to respecta- bility, 733; removal of religious Tests, though these are bad, abso- lutely, would, with the present pa- trons, degrade it still lower, 707. Edinburgh Town Council. See Uni- versity Patronage.
Education of Deaf and Dumb. See Deaf and Dumb.
Education of the People. See Popular Education.
Effect and Cause: as relative, thought,
ipso facto, as conditioned, 34, 604, sq. Ehinger (Elias), his erroneous com- mutation of the anonymous Greek version of Hispanus into an original work by Psellus, 127, 670. Eichstaedt, on Examination, 769. Empirical. See Experience. England: English indifference to Phi- losophy, 186; abuse of the term Philosophy, 276, 673; national dis- regard of oaths, 464, 544, 545; Church the creation of the civil magistrate, nay of the King alone, 350, sq.; Established Clergy have no profes- sional education, 349, 451, 485; Anglican Church holds Assurance, but not its churchmen, 502; English theology weak from want of philo- sophy, and could not now be trusted in the threatened polemic, 788. Universities (see Universities); po-
pular education the worst in Chris- tendom, 557. Enthymeme. See Logic. Eobanus. See Hessus. Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum: cha- racter and authorship of this satire, 202-238; its authors three, 227; to wit, Crotus 221, Hutten 221, and Buschius 225; theories of its author- ship, 219; contributed greatly to the Reformation, 214, 215; mistakes about, 217, 218; ill-edited by Muench, 231, sq.; and by Rotermund, 234. Erasmus: unknown letters of, 214; doubted the canonicity of the Apo- calypse, 518; quoted, 216, 226,"et pluries passim.
Eschenbach (Professor), his translation of Collier's Clavis, 189.
Esdaile (Dr), his surgical operations under Magnetic insensibility, 643. "Evangelical Review (British and Foreign"), an Edinburgh journal, on the Genevese prohibitions touch- ing preaching from the Apocalypse, 517, sq.
Examination as an academical exer- cise, 767, sq.
Examinations for academical degrees: in Louvain, 736, sq.; as an acade- mical stimulus, in Oxford, 792, 812. Exeter (Dr Philpotts, Bishop of), on admission of Dissenters to the Eng- lish Universities, 528, sq. Existence, as a category of thought, 596, sq.
Experience all notions from, or em- pirical, which we can think non-ex- istent, 332, 333, 334, 596, 597, 609, 610.
Extension. See Space. Extension, and Intension (or Compre- hension), of notions. See Logic.
FABER, Stapulensis, 666. Faculty, of University, what, 490, et alibi.
Faith, the ultimate foundation of knowledge, 14, 619, sq.
Faith, true or saving: formerly, in Protestantism, implied Assurance or Special Faith, 502.
Fatalism convertible with Atheism, 618, 620, 623, 624. Fiducia. See Assurance. First and Second Notions or Inten- tions, distinction of, 137. Foreknowledge, &c. See Free-Will. Formal and Material, distinction of. See Logic.
Free Will of Man, the condition of all Religion and Morality, 619, 620,
alibi; inconceivable, 619, sq., alibi; its reconciliation with Foreknow- ledge and Predestination to be be- lieved, but not understood, 621, sq.; this explicitly acknowledged and proclaimed, by the best divines and philosophers;-among the former,- St Augustin 621, 622, 639, St Ber- nard 622, Armachanus 639, Cajet- anus 622, sq., 639, Ochinus 627, Melanchthon and Stadianus 635, Bossuet 637,-among the latter, Boëthius 632, Valla 633, Descartes 636, Milton 627, Locke 637, Jacobi 638.
French Sensualist philosophy, 2, sq. Fries: Astronomy and Fate, Psycho- logy and Design, 310, 311. Fromondus, his statement of a curious theory of Perception, 50. Fuelleborn, his error in regard to the origin of the imaginary inscription over Plato's school, 275.
GATTO (Sig. Lo), Italian translator of these Philosophical Discussions, pas- sim. Gentlemen Commoners, in Oxford and Cambridge, a collegial emolument, but an academical nuisance, 810, 811.
Geometry. See Mathematics.
Germans character of, 202; rise of classical studies among, 204; their demoralisation after the Reforma- tion, 506. German :
- rational philosophy, 4; universities, 375-377, 418-421; the theology less orthodox than the phi- losophy, 498; schools for the people, 561-591; strong interest in educa- tion, shewn from the number of works on that subject published in Germany, 579.
Germany: a chair in a German Theo-
logical Faculty may be held by a layman,-at least in the Protestant Universities, 345.
God: known and unknown, 15, 631, sq.; a certain analogy of Man to God, 19, 20; known by ignorance, 631, sq.; to know God, we must know ourselves, 696.
Goettingen, University of, 377. Grace (Free), of God not to be held as incompatible with the Free Will of man. See Free Will.
Graduates, all have a right to lecture publicly in the English Universities, 402, 457, sq.
Пpáμuara Eypaye, &c., history of, 667,
Gratius (Ortuinus), 225, 229. Gregory (Dr James), quoted touching Medical practice, 255, 256. Grotius (Hugo), follows the Scaligers in singing the wisdom of a Learned Ignorance, 636.
HAMANN (George) quoted, 298, 307, 621.
Hampden (Bishop), his Aristotle's Philosophy, 168.
Hare (Archdeacon): his counter criti- cism, in defence of Luther, consider- ed, 500-516; his knowledge of theo- logy and of Luther's writings, with the trustworthiness of his state- ments and translations, ibi passim ; his misapprehensions and misrepre- sentations of Bossuet, 501, sq.; ig- norant even of Anglican principles, passim; attempts to defend Luther only on a few points, and even on these few has uniformly failed, 514, et passim ; extra sample of his signal unacquaintance with Church His- tory, 515; sympathy of an "Evan- gelical Reviewer," 516. Harris (Mr, of Salisbury), 787. Haywood (Mr Francis), 104. Hegel: his doctrine of the Absolute, 21, 24; to him the Absolute equal to the Nothing, 21; refutation of and by Schelling, 24; his confusion of Contradictories and Contraries, ib.; on his philosophy, 633, 786. Herminus, 669.
Hessus (Helius Eobanus): on, 228, 234, sq.; why called King? 236, sq.; verses of, 237, sq.
Hindoo Syllogism, 648. Hispanus (Petrus), not a Plagiarist, 127. Hoffmann (Frederic): on, 254, sq.; the Fuge Medicos, &c., and scepti- cism of that great physician touch- ing Medicine and its practice, 253. Huber (Professor), "The English Uni- versities," character of that book, 551.
Hume: his opinion about mathemati- cal truth mistaken by Dr Whewell, 270; despised mathematical study, 270, 312; quoted pluries. Humility, the beginning and end of true knowledge; reason and autho- rity for, 620-624, 629-639, 765. Hutten (Ulrich v.): on, 221, sq. See Epistolæ O. V.
Hypostasis, term, 639.
Hypothesis, conditions of a legitimate, 63, sq.
Hypothetical. See Logic.
Hypothetical Realism, Hypothetical
Dualism, Cosmothetic Idealism, 56, sq., 192.
IDEA, or representative object, 57; his- tory of the word, 70; what in the Platonic philosophy, 70; Idea am- biguous in the Cartesian doctrine, Descartes using it in his works both for the material motion in the brain, and for the mental modification, 72, sq.; the Material Idea and the Sen- sual Idea of the Wolfians, 73; Idea in Locke's philosophy, 78, sq. Idealism, its various degrees or species,
55, sq., 191, sq.; grounds of, 193; why the Schoolmen, Malebranche, and, in general, orthodox Catholics, avoided this doctrine, 196, sq. Ignorantia Docta Summa Sapientia, 37, 38, 629-639. Testimonies quoted Anonymus 635, Arabian Sage 632, Aristotle 630, 637, Armachanus 639, Arnobius 631, Augustin 621, 622,631, 639, Boëthius 632, Bolingbroke 638, Bossuet 637, Cajetanus 622, 639, Chrysologus 632, Chrysostom 620, 632, Cicero 631, Cusa 633, Cyprian 632, Democritus 630, Descartes 636, Grotius 636, Hamann 621, Jacobi 638, Locke 637, Maimonides 633, Melanchthon 635, Milton 627, Oc- hino 627, Origen 621, Palingenius 634, Pascal 637, St Paul 630, Pe- trarch 633, Piccolomini (Æneas Sylvius) 634, Pliny 631, Rabbis 633, Scaliger (Julius) 635, Scaliger (Joseph) 636, Seneca 631, Socrates 630, Stadianus 635, Tertullian 631, 632, Theodoret 632, Valla 633. See Knowledge, Occult Causes. Imagination. See Conception. Impossible, the, (in Propositions) de- fined, 701.
Induction that this method, espe- cially applied to physical objects, equalises talents, acknowledged by Bacon, 819. See Logic. Infinite, the: (see Unconditioned); what properly, 12, 13, 21; verses on, 37. Inglis (Sir Robert Harry), on admis- sion of Dissenters to English Univer- sities, 526, sq.
Intellectual Intuition: 6; by Plotinus, 12; of Schelling, 20; in Cusa, 634. Intension, or Degree, as a condition of thought, 602, sq.
Intension and Extension of notions. See Logic.
Intuitive (or Presentative) and Repre- sentative Knowledge, 52, sq. Irish, their scholastic pugnacity, bar- barism, and acuteness, 6.
Isis, inscription on her fane, 22. Italian Universities, their religious liberality in calling Protestants of learning to their chairs, 369, 374, 375.
JACOBI, noble passage of, on Provi dence and Fate, 309; on moral Li- berty, its incomprehensibility, 638; quoted pluries.
Jenkyns (Very Rev. Dr), as Master of Balliol, 750.
Johnson (Rev. Arthur) translation of Tennemann's Manual, 99-116.
Jonas (Justus), 216, 221, 226. Judgment involved in Consciousness, 603.
Judgments. See Logic.
KANT: his philosophy, 5, 628; his doctrine of the Unconditioned, 15; his Categories, 16, 27, 144; neces- sity of so thinking, his criterion of native or à priori notions and judg ments, 270; but did not observe, that this necessity might be either positive or negative, from either a power or an impotence, 14, 15, 596, 628; against Common Sense, 93; his Logical purism, 144; sublime passage from, contrasting the Moral Law and the Stellar Universe, 308; on, 786, sq.
Karslake (Mr), 126.
Kempis (Thomas à): mediately, the
restorer of classical studies in Ger- many, 205; certain author of the "De Imitatione Christi," 238. Knowledge: ultimately founded on Faith or Belief, 14, 619, sq.; does it imply an analogy of Subject and Object? 61; of Mind and of Matter is only phænomenal or relative, 639. Testimonies for this relativity Albertus Magnus, Aristotle, Aver- roes, Augustin, Bacon, Boëthius, Bruno, Campanella, Gerson, Kant, Leo Hebræus, Melanchthon, New- ton (Sir Isaac), Picolomini (F.), Pro- tagoras, Scaliger (J. C.), Spinoza, 640-642. See Ignorantia Docta, Occult Causes. Knowledge, conceit of, the negation of progress, 765.
LAMBERT, his Syllogistic, 651, 702. Law: how far its study supposes classi- cal scholarship, 340, sq.; proposed Practicum for, 771.
Learned Ignorance. See Ignorantia Docta.
Learning, conceit of. See Knowledge, &c.
Leibnitz, quoted passim, and 270, 596. Lening (John), his character, 507,508. Leyden, University of, 370-375. Liberty, moral, doctrine of, 618, sq. Locke, his advice to William III. to reform the Universities, 467; pas- sage on the Creation of Matter, ex- plained, 199, 200; acknowledgment touching Liberty and Foreknow- ledge, 637. See Perception. Logic its fortune in Scotland, 118; in Cambridge, 121; in Oxford, 122, sq.; in Dublin, 122; History of, 138; what? 129; its derivation, 136 ; Abstract, Concrete, 133; a Formal science, defined "Science of the Formal Laws of Thought," 135, 137, 138, 144; Pure and Applied, 139, alibi.
a) Notions, Simple Terms :-First and Second Notions, 137, 138. Cate- gories of Aristotle, not a logical dis- tribution, 140. Breadth or Exten- sion, and Depth or Intension or Comprehension, 170, sq., 692, sq. Table of, 694.
b) Judgments, Propositions :— Eight forms of, 162, 682, sq. Quan- tification of the Predicate, 160, 162, 599. Comprehension or Depth, and Extension or Breadth, 692, sq.; re- markable omission of this distinc- tion, 170. Affirmation and Negation, counter procedure of, 675, sq., 694; Particularity twofold, of Indefinite Definitude, and of Definite Indefini- tude, 686, sq. Tables of these rela- tions, 683, 688.
c) Reasonings, Syllogisms:-All logical inference hypothetical, 144; but all mediate inference categorical, 648, 652; our Hypothetical syllo- gisms not those of Aristotle, 149, 150; only of immediate inference, 150, 648, 652; Categorical, what the dif- ferent meanings of the term, 151; Author's one Canon of Syllogism, 647, 650, sq.; this thorough-going, without exceptions, 651, alibi; Dia- grams of Syllogism, 654, 664, 665; on their history, 666, sq.; Analytical and Synthetical, what, 648, sq.; Major and Minor, in Terms and Pro- positions, 647, 662, sq.; objection of Petitio Principii does not apply to the Analytical Syllogism, there- fore not to any, 648; Figured and Unfigured, what, 649, sq.; Philoso- phy of Figure, who first speculated on, 663; Argument, what properly, 147; Fourth Figure shewn to be null, and on a new principle, 658, sq.;
mnemonic verses and words for Moods and Figures, 663, 668; his- tory of these, 667, sq.; Ultratotal Quantification of the middle term, 703; Order of Premises, wholly arbitrary, 657, 671, 696; prevalent error regarding, ib.; Enthymeme, what vulgarly, and what to Aristotle, &c., 152, sq.; Deduction, logical, 159, sq.; Induction, logical, its true nature, 156-173.
d) Propositions and Syllogisms :- Modality of, Extra-logical, or only of an Applied Logic, 140, 144, sq., 157, 700, sq.; what allowable, 146, 700; Modes, table of, as genera and spe- cies, 701; Hypothetical propositions and syllogisms, what and how to be divided, 149; Quantification of the Predicate in propositions and syllo- gisms, 160, 162, 690, sq.; on this, as the foundation of a new Analytic, 646-653, 659-662; Notations, logical, 651, 653, 654, sq., 683; should, if competent, be able to exhibit the thirty-six moods, by thirty-six seve- ral diagrams, 653.
e) Authors relative to Logic, in alphabetical order:-Agellius 155, Agricola 153, Aldrich 124, 138, 148, Alexander (of Aphrodisias) 141, 142, 144, 154, 155, 659, 670, St Ambrose 126, Ammonius (Hermia) 142, 154, 155, 663, 667, 670, Anonymus Græcus de Syllogismis 154, 670, Ap- sines 155, Apuleius 151, 660, 696, sq., Archytas 138, Aristo Chius 125, Aristotle 124, 133, 136, 139, sq., 149, 152, 165, sq., 170, 662, sq., Averroes 133, 660, 670, Bacon (Lord) 143, Balfour (Robert) 120, Baynes 162, 647, 653, Becmanus 153, Ben- tham 126, 130, 131, Blemmidas, (Nicephorus) 127, 668, 669, Boëthius 142, 150, 151, 155, 165, 671, Browne (Sir Thomas) 157, Buffier 132, Cam- ariota (Matthæus) 155, Cardanus 151, 156, Cassiodorus 151, 155, Chal- mers or Camerarius (William) 121, Chretien 126, Cicero 155, Corni- ficius 155, Corydaleus 153, Cracken- thorpe 148, Cusa (Cardinal) 126, Demetrius (Phalerius) 155, De Mor- gan 672, sq., Dempster (Thomas) 120, Dionysius (of Halicarnassus) 155, Downam (Bishop) 121, 668, Duncan (Mark) 120, 121, 132, Dun- can (William) 121, Dupleix 120, Ehinger 127, 669, 670, Epicurus 648, Erasmus 119, Eudemus 142, Eugenios (Bulgaris) 669, Faber (Joannes Stap- ulensis) 666, Facciolati 153, Fortun
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