Elements of metaphysics

by A. E. Taylor

INDEX

• Absolute, meaning of, [53] ff.;
  • general character of, [60] ff.;
  • not unknowable, [71] ff.;
  • not a “self,” [343] ff.;
  • is it a society? [100], [347] ff.;
  • a spiritual individual, [98] ff.;
  • not necessarily the same as “God,” 399 ff.;
  • not “union of thought and will,” 409 ff.
• Activity not identical with conation, [55];
  • and causation, [169];
  • empirical nature of, [189].
• Agnosticism, [68], [69], [71], [72];
  • how far justifiable, [412].
• Appearance and Reality, connection between, [105] ff.
• Aristotle, [6], [42], [97], [266], [361], [386].
• Attention, selective, [55], [66], [80];
  • “span” of, [226], [244].
• Avenarius, [35], [45], [80], [121], [174], [298] ff. 315.

• Baldwin, J. M., [206].
• Berkeley, [26], [64] ff., [75], [184], [185], [201] ff.
• Body, my own, as describable object, [282].
• Body, my own, and others, [203] ff.
• Body and Soul, theories of, [313] ff.;
  • in what sense the same, [332].
• Bosanquet, B., [19], [26], [164].
• Bradley, F. H., [9], [11], [23], [26], [55], [67], [88], [90], [131], [146], [199], [227], [243], [259], [289], [318], [326], [335], [338], [355], [364], [370], [384], [411].

• Causation, [165] ff.;
  • cause not identical with ground, [166];
  • causation a postulate, [167] ff.;
  • popular as distinguished from scientific sense, [169];
  • causation and the indefinite regress, [177] ff.;
  • continuity of causation, [171] ff.;
  • Immanent and Transeunt Causality, [183] ff.;
  • psychophysical causation, [322] ff.
• Causes, Plurality of, [180] ff.
• Chance, “pure,” meaning of, [231], [232];
  • chance and “free-will,” 378.
• Change, [158-164].
• Character and freedom, [374].
• Choice and motives, [373].
• Consciousness, a misleading term, [79].
• Consequence (see [Ground]).
• Continuity, nature of, [171]
  • • (see Causation);
  • continuity of space and time, [244], [250].
• Contradiction, principle of, [19] ff.
• Cosmology Rational, nature of, [43-49], [192-197].
• Couturat, L., [149], [260].

• Dedekind, [116], [149], [171].
• Degrees of Reality, [108] ff.
• Descartes, [128], [185], [318], [400] ff.
• Description, as scientific ideal, [174];
  • in physical Science, [280] ff.;
  • in Psychology, [308] ff.
• Determinism, [370-376].
• Discontinuity of teleological series, [311].
• Distance in space and time, [250].

• Ends in Nature, [272], [405], [406].
• Energy, conservation of, [292];
  • kinetic and non-kinetic, [291];
  • doctrine of, and psychophysical interaction, [322] ff.
• Epiphenomenalism, [317], [318-320].
• Epistemology and Metaphysics, [16].
• Evil, problem of, [391] ff., [395] ff.
• Evolution, not identical with mere change, [267];
  • implies real ends, [268] ff.;
  • is of finite beings only, [274] ff.;
  • implies real progress and degeneration, [275];
  • originates new individuals, [276].
• Experience, what, [23] ff., [33] ff.;
  • “pure,” 35, [54].

• Feeling, [23] ff., [55];
  • in the Absolute, 467 ff.
• Freedom, meaning of, [359] ff.
• Free-will, origins of belief in, [361] ff.

• Geulincx, [184], [185], [186], [317].
• Gibson, W. R. B., [288], [329], [366].
• God, proofs of being of, [400] ff.
• Ground and Consequence, meaning of principle of, [164], [165].

• Harmony, Pre-established, [187], [317].
• Hegel, [40] ff., [42] ff., [391], [401].
• Herbart, [39], [42], [68].
• Hobhouse, L. T., [74], [137], [138], [199].
• Hume, [29], [7], [133], [169], [172], [183], [400] ff.

• Identity, Psychophysical, doctrine of, [102], [321], [331], [332].
• Identity, a teleological concept, [335].
  • (See also [Unity of Thing]).
• Imitation, significance of, for personality, [206].
• Immanent Causality, [183] ff.
• Immediacy, [32].
• “Immortality,” 354 ff.
• Indeterminism, [376-379].
• Individuality, nature of, [57], [98] ff.;
  • degrees of, [109] ff.;
  • infinite and finite, [115] ff.
• Infinite Regress, [148] ff., [156];
  • in space and time, [255] ff., [259];
  • in causal relation, [177].
• Infinity, meaning of, [116].
• Interaction, Psychophysical, [317], [329-331].
• Introjection, meaning of, [81];
  • origin of, [81], [299] ff.;
  • justification of, [301] ff.

• James, W., [53], [91], [318], [370], [383], [390], [400].

• Kant, [11], [24], [39], [43], [69], [134], [188], [242] ff., [259], [359], [366], [387], [400] ff.

• Law, meaning of, [218] ff.
• Laws in Nature, [196], [229].
• Leibnitz, [68], [82], [86], [91] ff., [117], [187] ff., [317], [366], [401], [404].
• Locke, [128], [136], [200], [318], [353], [365], [366].
• Lotze, [41], [42], [133], [224], [289].

• Mach, E., [174], [175], [192], [223], [228], [283], [290].
• Machine, nature of a, [236], [237].
• McTaggart, J. E., [345], [357], [391], [398], [413].
• Malebranche, [184], [185], [317].
• Mass, definition of, [289];
  • conservation of, [290];
  • a relative concept, [290], [291].
• Matter, meaning of, [198] ff.
• Mechanical view of Nature, [233] ff., [237] ff., [283] ff.;
  • postulates of, [284], [292] ff.
• Mechanism, meaning of, [196], [237] ff.
• Method of Metaphysics, [38] ff.
• Mill, J. S., [24], [180] ff., [370].
• Monadism, [86], [91], [94].
• Monism, [85].
• Münsterberg[Münsterberg], H., [45], [67], [198], [283], [303] ff., [315], [318], [321], [324], [329].
• Mysticism, [14], [33], [153];
  • in what sense justifiable, [413].

• Necessity and causal relation, [183].
• Newton, [128], [200].
• Nietzsche, [276].
• Number-series, [151] ff., [248-250], [259].

• Occasionalism, [184], [317].
• Ontology, character of, [42].
• Order, a teleological concept, [118];
  • order in space and time, [251].
• Organism, nature of a, [96].

• Parallelism, Psychophysical, [317], [320-329].
• Pearson, K., [75], [290].
• Phenomenalism, [10], [136].
• Physical order, nature of the, [194] ff., [198], [208], [282].
• Plato, [3], [55], [77], [95], [276], [366], [386], [393], [398], [409].
• Pleasure-pain, [55], [344].
• Plotinus, [398].
• Pluralism, [86] ff.
• Position not a principle of individuation, [58];
  • relativity of, [253].
• Pragmatism, [317].
• Prediction in science, [219] ff.
• Progress not infinite, [387-389].
• Psychical order, nature of the, [298] ff.
• Psychology, character of, as a science, [296] ff.
• Psychology and Physiology, [303] ff.
• Psychology, Rational, nature of, [43] ff.
• Purpose, nature of, [55] ff.

• Qualities, primary and secondary, [128] ff.
• Quality and relation, [140] ff.
• Quality and substance, [128] ff.
• Quality, spatial and temporal, [244].

• Rashdall, H., [347], [393], [400].
• Realism, Agnostic, [68], [71], [72];
  • Dogmatic, [69], [72-75].
• Relation and quality, [140] ff.
• Relations and relatedness, [155].
• Religion, metaphysical presuppositions of, [389] ff.
• Responsibility and the self, [335].
• Royce, J., [13], [33], [51], [56], [76], [116], [145], [148] ff., [206], [226], [239], [263], [270], [277], [307], [398].
• Russell, B., [36], [58], [91], [142], [189], [243], [250], [253], [404].

• Self, [98], [107];
  • nature of, [334-340];
  • a teleological concept, [335];
  • temporal character of, [341], [342].
• Self-consciousness, genuine and fictitious, [79].
• Sidgwick, H., [130], [359], [370].
• Space, perceptual, [243-245];
  • conceptual genesis of, [245-249];
  • infinity of, [247];
  • divisibility of, [248];
  • continuity of, [248], [250];
  • homogeneity of, [251];
  • relativity of, [251];
  • is it one or many? [253], [257];
  • is not ultimate, [254-257];
  • antinomies of, [259] ff.;
  • of what is it phenomenal? [260].
• Spencer, H., [40], [68].
• Spinoza, [62], [101] ff., [318], [399], [411].
• Stout, G. F., [33], [67], [135], [154] ff., [208], [247], [318], [324], [332], [378].
• Subjectivism, what, [75];
  • fallacy of, [76-81], [204] ff.
• Substance, concept of, [128] ff.;
  • and quality, [128-140].
• Sufficient Reason, principle of, [164].

• Teleological description not impossible, [309].
• Teleological series, discontinuity of, [311].
• Teleology, nature of, [55], [99], [125], [287], [371] ff.;
  • in Psychology, [305] ff.;
  • in Biology, [308];
  • and Psychophysical Parallelism, [326] ff.
• Thought and the Absolute, [61];
  • not ultimate, [409].
• Time, perceptual, [243-245];
  • conceptual, genesis of, [245-249];
  • infinity of, [247];
  • divisibility of, [248];
  • continuity of, [248], [250];
  • homogeneity of, [251];
  • relativity of, [251];
  • is it one or many? [253], [257];
  • not ultimate, [254-257];
  • antinomies of, [259] ff.;
  • of what is it phenomenal? [262];
  • time and the self, [341], [344].
• Truth, degrees of, [214].

• Uniformities, statistical, [220] ff.
• Uniformity in physical nature, [222], [227].
• Unity of things teleological, [123-128].

• Ward, J., [45], [64], [174], [225], [228], [289] 318, [324], [326-328].
• Whole and Part, category of, [96].
• Will, nature of, [61], [118];
  • not ultimate, [410].

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Transcriber’s Note

Two words on the first line of p. [70] of this edition (noted below) were missing (blank). They have been supplied from the 5th edition, published in 1920.

On p. 226, a footnote at ([226.42]) refers to Mr. H. G. Wells’s tale, The New Accumulator, which is certainly a reference to his 1901 tale “The New Accelerator”.

On p. [340], the first paragraph refers to ‘two points’, and prefaces the first with ‘(a)’. But there is no ‘(b)’ to denote the second point. It seems likely that ‘(b)’ should precede the next paragraph, or perhaps following the introductory ‘Further’.

The Index reference to p. 467 for ‘Feeling in the Absolute’ cannot be verified. The page does not exist, and no other page can be identified with certainty.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

The most common error is missing punctuation: [6.14] purpose[.], [38.29] inquiry[.], [44.12] periphery[.], [44.41] other[.], [56.47] failure[.], [58.27] theory[.], [62.39] “purposive[”], [67.17] life[.], [67.19] subject[.], [79.46] “matter[”], [82.13] it[.], [88.40] exclusive[.], [89.41] facts[.], [99.13] purpose[.], [108.24] admitted[.], [128.23] [“]substance”, [143.19] arisen[.], [215.10] [“]Nature, [224.22] purpose[.], [236.14] based[.], [251.45] series[.], [274.16] advance[.], [320.32] fatum[.], [361.22] considerations[.], [390.5] “temperament[”], [410.22] thing[.]

The name of Professor Hugo Münsterberg is spelled variably as Münsterberg, Munsterberg, and occasionally with a partial umlaut. The spelling has been rendered as Münsterberg to facilitate text searches at [215.5], [305.15], [315.8], [329.40], [418.3].

Other corrected errors are:

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