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 An Inquiry into the Human Mind  Thomas Reid Copyright © 2010–2015 All rights reserved. Jonathan Bennett [Brackets]  enclose editorial explanations. Small  · dots·  enclose material that has been added, but can be read as though it were part of the original text. Occasional   bullets, and also i ndenting of passages that are not quotations, are meant as aids to grasping the stru cture of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellips is .... indicates the omission of a short passage that seems to present more difculty than it is worth. Longer omissions are reported  beween square brackets in normal-sized type. First launched: September 2005 Last amended: July 2007 Contents Chapter 1: Introduction  1 1. The subject’s importance, and how to study it  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Obstacles to our knowl edge of the huma n mind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. The present state of this part of philosophy: Descartes, Malebranche and Locke  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. In defence of those philosophers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Bishop Berkeley.  ·Hume’s·  Treatise of Human Nature.  Scepticism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6. The Treatise of Human Nature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. The system of all these authors is the same, and it leads to scepticism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. We ought not to despair of nding a better system  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter 2: Smelling  11 1. The order in which I shall take things. The medium of smelling and the organ of smell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. The sensation · of smell·  considered abstractly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. Sensation and memory: natural producers of belief  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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