ABSTRACT
In England, Thomas Reid has stated that cognizance of the causal relation has its ground in the constitution of our cognitive faculty itself. Quite recently Thomas Brown has taught much the same thing in his long drawn-out book, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, namely that cognizance springs from innate, intuitive, and instinctive conviction. All the while, Immanuel Kant had erred in overly neglecting empirical perception in favor of pure perception, which have discussed at length in critique of his philosophy. It is altogether perception that is the source of all cognizances. Recognizing the entrapping and insidious character of abstractions early on, this chapter demonstrates treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Ground, the different kinds of relations that are thought under this concept. General concepts should be the material in which philosophy lays down and deposits its cognizance, but not the source out of which it derives such cognizance: the terminus ad quem, not a quo.
