The Principles of psychology, Band 2Appleton, 1873 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accompanying action æsthetic antecedent Anti-Realistic argument arise asserted attri attributes axiom become before-known body cause changes 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 gism greater habitually Hence ideas implies impressions inconceivable inference intuition involved kind known laws of thought less magnitudes manifest 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 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 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 347 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Seite 21 - The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to each other ; and if the equal sides be produced, the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal.
Seite 342 - 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 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.
Seite 341 - 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 348 - When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion.
Seite 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.