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... function . The part played by the retina and the nervous system must also be considered , so that , to the external conditions , these internal ones must be added . The defender of Natural Realism may seek to discount the internal ...
... function . The part played by the retina and the nervous system must also be considered , so that , to the external conditions , these internal ones must be added . The defender of Natural Realism may seek to discount the internal ...
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... function . This way of escape does not seem open to the Natural Realist ; we shall not , however , be dogmatic , but shall await confirmation from a study of the other difficulties which confront Natural Realism . 2 The distinction ...
... function . This way of escape does not seem open to the Natural Realist ; we shall not , however , be dogmatic , but shall await confirmation from a study of the other difficulties which confront Natural Realism . 2 The distinction ...
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... functions of the brain in dynamic relation to stimulating complexes , the suggestion comes to mind that appearances are ... function ? Let us use the more common name for these appearances and call them percepts . By " percept " we shall ...
... functions of the brain in dynamic relation to stimulating complexes , the suggestion comes to mind that appearances are ... function ? Let us use the more common name for these appearances and call them percepts . By " percept " we shall ...
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... function of various factors which achieve their pregnant focus in the individual . But we are convinced by now that the view of perception as an event in which the individual is essentially passive cannot be maintained . Thus the ...
... function of various factors which achieve their pregnant focus in the individual . But we are convinced by now that the view of perception as an event in which the individual is essentially passive cannot be maintained . Thus the ...
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... function not only of physical conditions , but also of what , in contrast , are usually termed mental conditions . Accidental associations , even , enter as determinants . When these personal elements in perception are first recognized ...
... function not only of physical conditions , but also of what , in contrast , are usually termed mental conditions . Accidental associations , even , enter as determinants . When these personal elements in perception are first recognized ...
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Page 210 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
Page 181 - But, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them, whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure.
Page 222 - We can trace the development of a nervous system, and correlate with it the parallel phenomena of sensation and thought. We see with undoubting certainty that they go hand in hand. But we try to soar in a vacuum the moment we seek to comprehend the connection between them.
Page 162 - Hence, the knowledge I have of other spirits is not immediate, as is the knowledge of my ideas; but depending on the intervention of ideas, by me referred to agents or spirits distinct from myself, as effects or concomitant signs.
Page 3 - ... existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For what are the forementioned objects but the things we perceive by sense? and what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? and is it not plainly repugnant that any...
Page 27 - For my own part, I see evidently that it is not in my power to frame an idea of a body extended and moving, but I must withal give it some colour or other sensible quality which is acknowledged to exist only in the mind. In short, extension, figure, and motion, abstracted from all other qualities, are inconceivable. Where therefore the other sensible qualities are, there must these be also, to wit, in the mind and nowhere else.
Page 163 - We are ignorant. it is true. of the manner in which bodies operate on each other. Their force or energy is entirely incomprehensible. But are we not equally ignorant of the manner or force by which a mind.
Page 122 - The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known simply and solely as a procession of mental associates and motor consequences that follow on the thought, and that would lead harmoniously, if followed out, into some ideal or real context, or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers.
Page 258 - It would seem that, when we make a statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual thing described. That is to say, when we say anything about Bismarck, we should like, if we could, to make the judgment which Bismarck alone can make, namely, the judgment of which he himself is a constituent.
Page 63 - 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.