The Principles of Psychology, Volumen2D. Appleton and Company, 1894 |
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accompanying actions æsthetic antecedent Anti-Realistic argument arise asserted attri attributes axiom become body cause changes chapter coexistent positions cognition cohesion colour common complex conceived conception conclusion connexions consciousness of space considered correlative definite degree developed elements emotions equal established evolution excited existence experiences external fact faint feelings further genesis greater Hence hypothesis ideas implies impressions inconceivable inference intuition involved kind known less magnitudes manifest mental metaphysicians mind motion muscular tension nature nervous ness Objective Science observe pain particular perceived perception phenomena Physical Synthesis pleasure possible predicate premiss present produced proposition reached Realism recognized reflex action rela relation of coexistence relation of ideas representation represented resistance respect retina riences sciousness sensations sentiments simultaneously Sir William Hamilton sound subject and object successive suppose syllogism sympathy tactual things thought tion touch truth unlike visual visual perception vivid aggregate words
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Página 321 - ... particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white } or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described. And it is equally impossible for me to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving, and which is neither swift nor slow, curvilinear nor rectilinear; and the like may be said of all other abstract general...
Página 321 - I can imagine a man with two heads or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from the rest of the body. But then whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour.
Página 342 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence.
Página 246 - Perception proper and Sensation proper exist only as they coexist, in the degree or intensity of their existence, they are always found in an inverse ratio to each other.
Página 186 - E, &c., are known by the number of intervening states. Imagine now that instead of these small motions separately made, the eye is moved with ordinary rapidity ; so that the image of the dot sweeps over the whole series A to Z in an extremely short time.
Página 328 - Here, therefore, we may divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species, which are distinguished by their different degrees of force and vivacity. The less forcible and lively are commonly denominated THOUGHTS or IDEAS.
Página 46 - THEOREM The greater side of every triangle has the greater angle opposite to it. Let ABC be a triangle, of which the side AC is greater than the side AB : the angle ABC is also greater than the angle ACB.
Página 313 - Nature, by an absolute and uncontrollable necessity, has determined us to judge as well as to breathe and feel...
Página 58 - The second is the principle of negative syllogisms and is to this effect: that a thing which co-exists with another thing, with which other a third thing does not coexist, is not co-existent with that third thing.
Página 329 - By the term impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And impressions are distinguished from ideas, which are the less lively perceptions of which we are conscious when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.