The Perceptionalist: Or, Mental Science, a University Text-bookHinds and Noble, 1899 - 416 páginas |
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The Perceptionalist; Or, Mental Science: A University Text-book Edward John Hamilton Vista completa - 1912 |
The Perceptionalist: Or, Mental Science, a University Text-book Edward John Hamilton Vista completa - 1899 |
The Perceptionalist; Or, Mental Science: A University Text-book Edward John Hamilton Vista completa - 1912 |
Términos y frases comunes
abstract action activity actualistic affect analysis antecedent Aristotle assert asso associationalism attributes belief belong body called cause ception character conceived conception connection consciousness consequent considered contingency conviction discussion distinction distinguished doctrine elements employed ence entity eral evidence exercise existence experience expressed external fact faculty feelings gisms homological hypothetical ideas imagination immediate cognition individual inference inferential intellect intuition intuitionalism judgment knowledge language Leibnitz Locke logical condition material matter means memory ment mental metaphysical metonymy mind modes nature necessary necessity non-existence notion objects ontological operation original orthological pantheism peculiar perceived phenomena philosophers Plato possible present principles probability produce proposition psychical radical rational reason redintegration reference regard relations reproductive result sensation sense sense-perception sensorium signifies similar simply Sir William Hamilton Socr solidity somnambulism soul space speak spirit statement substance supposed supposition synthesis term theory things Thomas Reid thought tion true truth uncon whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 316 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere. Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man to be made to see; quaere, Whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?
Página 250 - ... 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, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Página 42 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 336 - I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound?
Página 294 - Thirdly, the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire, to make lead fluid. These are usually called powers.
Página 236 - These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of sensation ; and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of reflection ; are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Página 368 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell...
Página 369 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
Página 229 - To return to general words : it is plain, by what has been said, that general and universal belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas.
Página 366 - When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbowchair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way.