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Page 101
... mental acts there is no observable agent ; there is only a hypothetical entity , a mind , self , or soul to which , by analogy , we refer the act . To avoid begging such important questions , let us rather talk of mental processes or ...
... mental acts there is no observable agent ; there is only a hypothetical entity , a mind , self , or soul to which , by analogy , we refer the act . To avoid begging such important questions , let us rather talk of mental processes or ...
Page 102
... mental events or processes as exemplifying or being accom- panied by greater or lesser degrees of attention . It may indeed be objected that it is not a sufficient description of so - called acts to say that their status in the scale of ...
... mental events or processes as exemplifying or being accom- panied by greater or lesser degrees of attention . It may indeed be objected that it is not a sufficient description of so - called acts to say that their status in the scale of ...
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... mental ' powers ' or ' faculties ' , the understanding and the will ; later he adds a warning about the sense in ... processes . It must be remembered that we do not know mental processes directly , but only our ideas of these processes ...
... mental ' powers ' or ' faculties ' , the understanding and the will ; later he adds a warning about the sense in ... processes . It must be remembered that we do not know mental processes directly , but only our ideas of these processes ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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