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problem is touched upon by recent thinkers we see how 

 they find it necessary to approach the subject from an 

 outside, not purely psychological, point of view. In fact 

 we are referred to a discussion of what constitutes 

 Eeality. This is the main problem of metaphysics. On 

 the other side such terms as unity and continuity point 

 to distinctions which the thinking mind imports into 

 its consideration of every matter with which it deals. 

 Accordingly we find that psychological analysis leads on 

 the one side to metaphysical discussions and on the other 

 to a more minute examination of the methods of thought 

 and the processes of acquiring knowledge. In some 

 cases these two interests have entirely cast into the 

 shade the purely psychological aims. It will now be 

 necessary for us to take up separately these two prob- 

 lems : the problem of Knowledge and the problem of 

 Eeality, into both of which the nineteenth century has 

 introduced novel and interesting points of view. 



