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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| I. | The Philosophical Spirit | ||
| § 1. | Philosophy Exists | 3 | |
| § 2. | Philosophical Terminology Is Difficult | 3 | |
| § 3. | The Problem of Philosophy | 4 | |
| § 4. | The Limits of Philosophy | 5 | |
| § 5. | Philosophy as a Spirit or Method | 6 | |
| § 6. | The Philosophical Spirit Is Not Absence of Thought | 8 | |
| § 7. | Not All Thought Is Philosophical | 8 | |
| § 8. | The Philosophical Spirit Distinguished from the Scientific | 9 | |
| § 9. | The Perils of the Philosophical Spirit | 14 | |
| § 10. | Value of the Philosophical Spirit | 18 | |
| § 11. | Philosophical Methods | 22 | |
| § 12. | What We May Expect from Philosophy | 29 | |
| II. | How Can We Distinguish Truth from Error? | ||
| § 1. | Sketch of the Development of Logic | 31 | |
| § 2. | The Meaning of Truth | 34 | |
| § 3. | Instinct as Criterion | 35 | |
| § 4. | Custom as Criterion | 37 | |
| § 5. | Tradition as Criterion | 38 | |
| § 6. | Consensus Gentium | 39 | |
| § 7. | Feeling as Criterion | 41 | |
| § 8. | Sense Experience as Criterion | 42 | |
| § 9. | Intuition as Criterion | 46 | |
| § 10. | Correspondence as Criterion | 49 | |
| § 11. | Practical Consequences as Criterion | 50 | |
| § 12. | Coherence as Criterion | 58 | |
| III. | How Do Our Ideas Refer to Reality? | ||
| § 1. | The Problem of Epistemology | 67 | |
| § 2. | Skepticism | 69 | |
| § 3. | “Kantian” Subjectivism | 72 | |
| § 4. | Epistemological Monism | 74 | |
| § 5. | Epistemological Dualism | 78 | |
| § 6. | Difficulties in Epistemological Dualism | 80 | |