The Principles of Psychology, Band 2D. Appleton, 1885 |
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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 connatural connexions considered correlative definite degree elements emotion equal established evolution excited existence experiences express external fact faint feelings further greater Hence ideas implies impressions inconceivable inference intuition involved kind known less magnitudes manifest mental metaphysicians mind motion muscular tension nature nervous ness nexions 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 sequence simultaneously Sir William Hamilton sound subject and object successive suppose syllogism symbols sympathy tactual things thought tion truth unlike visual visual perceptions vivid aggregate words
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Seite 503 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
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 344 - That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind.
Seite 330 - 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.
Seite 22 - 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 339 - Nor consequently of the greatest heat perceived by sense, since you acknowledge this to be no small pain?
Seite 349 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Seite 323 - 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.
Seite 248 - that, above a certain point, the stronger the Sensation, the weaker the Perception ; and the distincter the perception the less obtrusive the sensation ; in other words — though 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.
Seite 46 - ABC be a triangle of which the side AC is greater than the side AB ; the angle ABC is also greater than the angle BCA.