Chapter 10 No.10

The Nature and Extent of Knowledge.

Locke's Definition and Classification of Knowledge 196

Leibniz's Criticism 197

Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant regarding Knowledge of Objects 198

The Degrees of Knowledge,-Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive 199

Locke's Contradictory Theories regarding the Origin of Knowledge 202

Locke starts both with the Individual as given to Consciousness and with the Unrelated Sensation 204

Either Theory makes Relations or "Universals" Unreal 205

As to the Extent of Knowledge, that of Identity is Wide, but Trifling 205

That of Real Being includes God, Soul, and Matter, but only as to their Existence 206

And even this at the Expense of contradicting his Definition of Knowledge 206

Knowledge of Co-existence is either Trifling or Impossible 207

Leibniz rests upon Distinction of Contingent and Rational Truth 209

The Former may become the Latter, and is then Demonstrative 210

The Means of this Transformation are Mathematics and Classification 215

There are Two Principles,-One of Contradiction 217

The Other of Sufficient Reason 218

The Latter leads us to God as the Supreme Intelligence and the Final Condition of Contingent Fact 219

The Four Stages of Knowledge 222