The intellect, with an appendix on languageHarper & brothers, 1869 - Psychology |
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... Nature of such preliminary statements ... 3. Of the name or designation given them .. 4. Primary truth of personal existence .. 5. Occasions of the origin of the idea or belief of personal existence 20 6. Primary truth of personal ...
... Nature of such preliminary statements ... 3. Of the name or designation given them .. 4. Primary truth of personal existence .. 5. Occasions of the origin of the idea or belief of personal existence 20 6. Primary truth of personal ...
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... nature of mental powers or faculties , and their names . 92 CHAP . IV . THE SENSES OF SMELL AND TASTE . 56. Nature and importance of the senses as a source of knowledge 94 57. Of the connexion of the brain with sensation and perception ...
... nature of mental powers or faculties , and their names . 92 CHAP . IV . THE SENSES OF SMELL AND TASTE . 56. Nature and importance of the senses as a source of knowledge 94 57. Of the connexion of the brain with sensation and perception ...
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... Nature and characteristics of simple mental states . 124. Simple mental states not susceptible of definition .. 125. Simple cognitive states representative of a reality . 126. Origin of complex notions and their relation to simple ...
... Nature and characteristics of simple mental states . 124. Simple mental states not susceptible of definition .. 125. Simple cognitive states representative of a reality . 126. Origin of complex notions and their relation to simple ...
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... nature of unity and the origin of that notion .... 262 183. Nature of succession , and origin of the idea of succession ... 264 184. Origin of the notion of duration ... 264 185. Of time and its measurements , and of eternity . 186 ...
... nature of unity and the origin of that notion .... 262 183. Nature of succession , and origin of the idea of succession ... 264 184. Origin of the notion of duration ... 264 185. Of time and its measurements , and of eternity . 186 ...
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... nature of moral certainty .. 402 403 291. Of reasoning from analogy .. 404 292. Caution to be used in reasoning from analogy . 406 293. Of reasoning by induction .. 407 294. Of the caution necessary in inductive processes .. 408 295. Of ...
... nature of moral certainty .. 402 403 291. Of reasoning from analogy .. 404 292. Caution to be used in reasoning from analogy . 406 293. Of reasoning by induction .. 407 294. Of the caution necessary in inductive processes .. 408 295. Of ...
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Page 244 - ... bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself ; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 366 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
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Page 472 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 227 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 462 - The sooty films that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding in the view Of superstition, prophesying still, Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach.
Page 244 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas is,— the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got;— which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without. And such are perception, thinking, doubting...