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Paculty of Arts. 53<br />

H. Concepts and Terms: their nature and kinds.<br />

Abstraction. Controversies concerning Universals.<br />

The Predicables. The Predicaments.<br />

Definition. Division. Classification.<br />

Ill. Judgments and Propositions. Predication.<br />

Import of propositions. Theories on the<br />

nat,ure of judgment. Diyisions of judgments<br />

Truth and Falsehood. Assent. Belief.<br />

Doubt. Opinion.<br />

IV. Inference, immediate and mediate. 'l'he Syllogism.<br />

Demonstration. Axioms and necessary<br />

truths. Theories on the nature of Inference.<br />

The Logic of probability. Fallacies.<br />

V. Induction. Its presuppositions. Its relation to<br />

Deduction. 'l'heories of Induction. The Uniformity<br />

of Nature. The Law of Causation.<br />

Observation and Experiment. Experimental<br />

Canons. The special methods of inquiry in<br />

the various sciences. Hypothesis. Analogy.<br />

Scientific Explanation. Laws of Nature.<br />

Honours Course.<br />

A fuller treatment of the subjects III the Ordinary<br />

Course.<br />

PSYCHOLOGY.<br />

PaSii.<br />

I. Scope of Psychology: its history; its branches,<br />

Methods of Psychology.<br />

IT. Life: its general nature, properties and grades.<br />

Characteristics of vegetable, animal, and<br />

rational life. Consciousness.<br />

Ill. Sensation: its conditions and attributes. Clas·<br />

sification and measurement of sensation. Thtt<br />

special senses. The connexions of sens'ations<br />

Perception of extension, distance, motion, succession,<br />

rhythm. The inner Sfluses. Common<br />

James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

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