The Principles of Psychology, Volumen2D. Appleton, 1882 |
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... mental states , how- ever , it will be seen that though one of them promises to yield satisfactory results under analysis , the other does not . Anything that is to be explained by separation of its parts and examination of the modes in ...
... mental states , how- ever , it will be seen that though one of them promises to yield satisfactory results under analysis , the other does not . Anything that is to be explained by separation of its parts and examination of the modes in ...
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... mental act by which this implication is perceived ? It is manifestly not decom- posable into steps . Though involving many elements , it is a single intuition ; and if expressed in an abstract form amounts to the axiom - Ratios which ...
... mental act by which this implication is perceived ? It is manifestly not decom- posable into steps . Though involving many elements , it is a single intuition ; and if expressed in an abstract form amounts to the axiom - Ratios which ...
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... mental act as that which has for its terms substantive things instead of relations . The truth - Relations that are equal to the same relation are equal to each other - which we thus find is known by an intuition , * and can only so be ...
... mental act as that which has for its terms substantive things instead of relations . The truth - Relations that are equal to the same relation are equal to each other - which we thus find is known by an intuition , * and can only so be ...
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... mental process de- scribed is gone through ; though perhaps almost auto- matically . And for this belief further warrant will be found when , under another head , we come to consider the case of inequations — a case in which no such ...
... mental process de- scribed is gone through ; though perhaps almost auto- matically . And for this belief further warrant will be found when , under another head , we come to consider the case of inequations — a case in which no such ...
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... mental process gone through - that the first and second relations , contemplated as equal , form together one concept ; that the third and second , similarly contem- plated , form together another concept ; and that , in the intuition ...
... mental process gone through - that the first and second relations , contemplated as equal , form together one concept ; that the third and second , similarly contem- plated , form together another concept ; and that , in the intuition ...
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accompanying actions æsthetic antecedent arise asserted attri attributes axiom become before-known body cause changes in consciousness chapter classification coexistent positions cognition colour complex conceived conception conclusion connatural connexion consciousness of space considered correlations definite degree developed elements equal established excited existence experiences extension external eyes fact faint feelings further Hence ideas implies impressions induction inference intensive quantities intuition involved kind known less magnitudes manifest mental mind motion muscular tension nature nervous ness nexions objective correlations objective sciences observed pain particular perceived perception phenomena predicated premiss present produced proposition quantitative reasoning recognized reflex action rela relation of coexistence relation of ideas represented resistance respect retina riences sciousness sensations sentiments sequence simultaneously Sir William Hamilton sound structure subject and object successive suppose surface syllogism symbols tactual things thought tion touch truth unlike visual visual perception vivid aggregate words
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Página 342 - ALL the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit. Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in short, every affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain.
Página 24 - If a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Página 342 - Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality.
Página 199 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Página 347 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
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 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.
Página 404 - Accordingly, no geometrical proposition, as, for instance, that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, can ever be derived from the general conceptions of line and triangle, but only from perception.
Página 357 - Elsewhere he unites these statements, saying — " but space and time are not merely forms of sensuous intuition, but intuitions themselves.
Página 321 - 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 ideas whatsoever.