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candidate who was not entered for Latin was entered for at least two of the other subjects; no candidate entered for both Arithmetic and Geography was entered for Latin. What further information is required to compel the conclusion that each candidate was entered for two subjects and for two only? Work this question by Jevons's Method of Indirect Inference.

INDUCTIVE LOGIC.

The Board of Examiners.

TO BE USED ALSO AS HONOUR PAPER NO. 1.

1. Does it belong to Inductive Logic to discriminate between what is immediately known and the results of inference? In discussing this question refer to any passages in Mill's Logic which bear upon it.

2. Mention (a) the aim, (b) the results, of Mill's inquiry into things denoted by names. Is this inquiry necessary for Inductive Logic?

3. Show the value from an inductive point of view of syllogistic reasoning. Consider in this connexion the statement made by Jevons that Induction is the inverse process of Deduction.

4. To what extent is Induction dependent on conception and description? Illustrate the difficulties which may be encountered in seeking for an appropriate conception.

5. Is the Method of Agreement applicable in cases (a) of co-existing phenomena, (b) of artificial experiment? Give your reasons.

6. Consider the claim of the Method of Residues, as stated by Mill, to rank among the Inductive Methods. Illustrate by an instance known to you the use made of this method in scientific discovery.

7. What is the problem of the Deductive Method as stated by Mill? How would you apply this method to the investigation of social phenomena ? Show the difficulties of such investigation.

8. May an analogical argument amount in any case to a complete induction? Illustrate your answer.

9. State precisely what is meant by the probability of an event. To what extent is experience of particular facts necessary to a calculation of

chances?

MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

SECOND YEAR.

The Board of Examiners.

TO BE USED ALSO AS HONOUR PAPER No. 1.

1. Point out the difficulties of Introspection, and mention any supplementary means of psychological investigation by which these difficulties may be removed or mitigated.

2. Describe in detail the characteristics of Sensation.

3. Consider the arguments for and against the statement that "Presentation and Representation differ only in degree or intensity."

4. State and examine the universal or primary law of Association as formulated by Baldwin.

5. Explain the meaning of Spinoza's propositions that thought and extension are attributes of God. Trace the connexion here between the doctrines of Spinoza and of Descartes.

6. Consider the value of Locke's polemic against innate principles.

7. Mention any important points (a) of similarity, (b) of difference, between the Idealism of Berkeley and the Scepticism of Hume.

8. "Understanding can perceive nothing, the senses can think nothing. Knowledge arises only from their united action." Explain fully Kant's position

here.

9. Explain the method employed by Kant in his transcendental deduction of the Čategories.

10. Illustrate Kant's doctrine of schemata either by his second or by his third Analogy of Experience. Add any comments.

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MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

THIRD YEAR.

The Board of Examiners.

No candidate is to attempt more than TEN of the following questions, five being selected from each section.

SECTION I.

1. Consider Baldwin's criticism of the theory of the Relativity of Consciousness.

2. It has been said that presentation and representation differ only in degree or intensity. Consider the arguments for and against this statement.

3. State and examine the universal or primary law of Association as formulated by Baldwin.

4. Consider Baldwin's treatment of Conception, referring especially to the meanings which he assigns to Abstraction and Generalization.

5. Comment on the criterion of knowledge adopted by Descartes, and on his attempt to strengthen this criterion by an argument from the existence and perfection of Deity.

6. "I clearly perceive that there is more reality in the infinite substance than in the finite, and therefore that in some way I possess the perception of the infinite before that of the finite." Discuss this statement in its bearing on the fundamental principles of the Cartesian philosophy.

7. By what considerations was Descartes led, in his Meditations, to consider the nature of truth and error? Comment on his doctrine.

8. Show fully the significance of the statement of Descartes that "of every substance there is one principal attribute, as thinking of the mind, extension of the body."

SECTION II.

9. Examine critically the value of the method employed by Kant in his transcendental deduction of the Categories.

10. What function is ascribed by Kant to Reason, as distinguished from Understanding? Explain precisely the meaning which he attaches to the title "Dialectic of Pure Reason."

11. Explain the regulative principle involved in the antinomy of pure reason, and the use to which

this principle is restricted by Kant. Add any

comments.

12. What speculative value is attached by Kant to "the Ideal of pure reason"?

13. Mention the different paths by which Spencer, in his First Principles, seeks to reach the assertion of an Unknowable Power. Is his procedure legitimate?

14. "Should the idealist be right, the doctrine of Evolution is a dream." Discuss this statement.

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