The Principles of Psychology, Band 2D. Appleton, 1873 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accompanying action æsthetic antecedent Anti-Realistic argument arise asserted attri attributes axiom become before-known body cause chapter coexistent positions cognition cohesion colour common complex conceived conception conclusion connatural connexions considered correlative definite degree distinguished elements emotion equal established excited existence experiences express fact faint feeling further greater habitually Hence ideas implies impressions inconceivable inference intuition involved kind known laws of thought less magnitudes manifest means metaphysicians mind mode motion muscular tension nature nervous ness nexions object Objective Science observe pain particular perceived perception phenomena pleasure possible predicate premiss present produced proposition reached Realism recognized rela relation of coexistence relation of ideas representation represented resistance respect retina riences sciousness sensations sentiments sequence sequent similarly simultaneous Sir William Hamilton sound successive suppose syllogism symbols sympathy tactual things thought tion truth unlike visual visual perception vivid aggregate words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 342 - 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. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.
Seite 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.
Seite 59 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Seite 493 - Thus we are brought to the conclusion that what we are conscious of as properties of matter, even down to its weight and resistance, are but subjective affections produced by objective agencies that are unknown and unknowable.
Seite 60 - All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premise are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
Seite 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.
Seite 322 - 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...
Seite 341 - ... to us. In short, all the materials of thinking are derived either from our outward or inward sentiment : The mixture and composition of these belongs alone to the mind and will : Or, to express myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones.