89. It is an axiom in mental philosophy, that we can think of nothing which
we have not perceived When I say that we can think of nothing, I mean we can
imagine nothing, we can reason of nothing, we can remember nothing, we can
foresee nothing. The most astonishing combinations of poetry, the subtlest
deductions of logic and mathematics, are no other than combinations Which
the intellect makes of sensations according to its own laws. A catalogue of all
the thoughts of the mind, and of all their possible modifications, is a
cyclopaedic history of the universe.
According to the writer, perception is the basic epistemology. Which one of the
following is the other accepted epistemology?
