IS 
LOGIC. 
it has three powers, the reprefentaiive, the creative, and 
the retentive. 
19. The Representative Power of Imagination 
produces Intuitions. 
20. The Creative Power produces new combina¬ 
tions from fenfible materials. 
si. The Retentive Power, or Memory, recalls to 
mind paft objects by the law of AJfociation of Ideas. 
22. Reafon is the higheft: degree of Spontaneity, the 
power which forms Ideas ; that is, it extends the con¬ 
ceptions of the underlfanding to abfolutenefs, or carries 
them beyond the limits of Tune and Space ; for this purpofe 
it is fu mi filed with Six Primary and Original Ideas, formed 
cut of the Categories of Underflanding, under which it dalles 
all our Knowledge, and thus produces the greateft Syfe- 
matical Unity of Knowledge. It judges mediately or by con- 
clulion, deducing one judgment from another. It is the 
laft telf of Truth. 
23. Idea mutt be carefully diftinguilhed both from Con¬ 
ception and Intuition. It is a Conception carried by Rea¬ 
fon to abfolutenefs ; and has nothing to do with Time 
and Space, confequently, it is not to be met with in ex¬ 
perience ; e. g. we have an Idea of God, the Soul, and a 
future ltate; but not the lliadow of a Conception of any of 
thefe objefts ; much lefs can we pretend to have Intuitions 
of them. It is that which renders a conclufion poflible. 
24. Conclusion is a Judgment of Reafon ; it conftlts 
of Predicate, Middle Term, and Subject. Its higheft propo¬ 
rtion mull be an Idea, or no conclufion is polhble. It in¬ 
fers from univerfals to particulars, a mode of inference 
which cannot err. 
25, A priori. All thofe objeifls which lie in the mind, 
antecedent to all reprelentation, ar e objects a priori-, alio 
called pure. They are universal and necessary ; e. g. 
Time and Space, 12 Categories, 6 Ideas of Reason. 
26. A posteriori. All thole objects which do not 
lie in the Mind, but which come through the Semes, are 
objedls a pojieriori ; alfo called unpirical ; e. g. every ob¬ 
ject of actual experience. 
Observation. On analyzing Perception, Conception, 
Thought , Knowledge, Judgment, and Reafoning-, we find 
that they conlilt of nothing but Intuition, Concep¬ 
tion, and Idea, the products of Realon, Underlfanding, 
and Senfe, varioully compounded ; for, what is Perception 
but an External Intuition ? what Conception but the form 
abjlraCted jrom Intuitions P what is Thought but one 
Conception joined to another? and what indeed is Knowledge 
but an Intuition joined to a Conception? Laltly, what is 
Reafoning but an Intuition comprehended under a Conception, 
and that Conception again under an Idea ; or the deducing one 
Judgment from another ? Hence it is evident, that the 
Elements of every Perception, Conception, Knowledge, 
&c. nay the very Elements of every thing that is cogitable, 
mull be either Intuition, Conception, or Idea. It 
is on this account that the following Table is fubjoined, 
as it is prefumed that a thorough acquaintance with the 
Elements of Knowledge, may enable us to recognize them 
in their various Ramifications and Combinations. 
TABLE 
OF the 
ELEMENTS of KNOWLEDGE. 
Axiom, All that Man can KNOW, are Repreientations; but not the Obje&s 
which produce them. 
GENUS. 
REPRESENTATION in general. 
The Mind lias a faculty to represent something to itself. 
Proof. The mind Thinks, i. e. it is active. Now there are only two ways possible, either to connect the 
objects of our thoughts or to create them. But 1 lie latter is absurd; therefore the Mind can only 
connect given matter into a Unity, which constitutes a Representation. 
N. B. To Create, means to produce Something from Nothing, which is above human capacity. 
To Connect, means to give a form or unity to received materials; i. e. to produce a Whole . 
SPECIES. 
REPRESENTATION in particular. 
I. INTUITION, 
1. is a Reprefentation, where the mat¬ 
ter is prefent. It includes the whole 
SenfibleWorld ; i.e. every thing which 
we can feel, fee, hear, tafte, or fmell. 
2. is produced by 
SENSE; 
and arifes immediately upon the recep¬ 
tivity being affected. 
3. is divifible into 
, - - A. ,- 1 
Empirical : 
External, Internal, 
in in 
Time and Time 
Space. only. 
Pure : 
i. e. 
Time and Space 
themfelves, which 
are a priori, whole 
matter is Receiv¬ 
ing in general, 
wliofe forms are 
the Modes of Re¬ 
ceiving, viz. 
2. SucccJJion ; 
2, Co-exijlenct. 
II. CONCEPTION, 
1. is a Reprefentation, where the mat¬ 
ter is abfent. It is mere Form ab- 
ftrafted from fenfible things, and can 
be obtained in no other way. 
2. is produced by 
UNDERSTANDING; 
and ariles mediately by means of Judg¬ 
ment. 
3. is divifible into 
----- 
Empirical : 
i. e. 
in Time, their 
matter is Intui¬ 
tion, to which 
they mull all be 
reducible. 
Pure : 
i. e. 
the 12 Categories, 
which are out of 
Time and Space, 
and a priori, whofe 
matter is Connec¬ 
tion in general, 
and whole forms 
are the 12 modes 
of connexion. 
III. IDEA, 
1. is aReprefentation which is purely men¬ 
tal, and does not in the lealt partake of 
any thing fenfible; forit is out of Tims. 
and Space ; i. e. it is Superfenfible. 
2 . is produced bv 
REASON; 
and can only aril'e by means of a Syl- 
logifm. 
3. is divifible into 
----A-- 
Empirical : 
i. e. 
in Time, their 
matter is Con¬ 
ception, railed 
by Genus and 
Species to Ab¬ 
folutenefs. 
Puke : 
i. e. 
the 6 Ideas, which 
are out of Time 
and Space, and 
a priori, whofe 
matter is the Cate¬ 
gories, and whofe 
forms are their 
connection into 
the 6 Unities. 
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