The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul

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C. Scribner, 1883 - 673 pages
 

Contents

THE HUMAN INTELLECT
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PRESENTATION AND PRESENTATIVE KNOWLEDGE
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111 The process of senseperception in the simplest form what?It is psychical
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CHAPTER IIREFLECTIVE OR PHILOSOPHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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Its organ conditions
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senseperceptions 127 The sense of touch organWebers experimentsEssential condition
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Nature interest and difficulty of the problem 151 The problem perplexing to
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THE ACQUIRED SENSEPERCEPTIONS
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THE PRODUCTS OF SENSEPERCEPTION OR THE PER
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VIII
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THEORIES OF SENSEPERCEPTION
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Association of ideas general fact various terms 239 Importance and interest
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Association not explained by bodily organization 242 Defect of all physiological
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18011858
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and corporeal theoriesFacts relating to the connection of the body with the imagination
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The secondary laws definedThe same enumerated 257 How far reducible
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THE REPRESENTATIVE OBJECTITS NATURE AND
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Representation unceasingly active 261 Objective interruptions to this activity 262
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Subjective interruptions 263 Association not the only nor the most important powerDepen
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Its relations of time Its relations of place 275 The act of recognition may vary in positive
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rational memory 283 The intentional memory definedThe object vaguely known already
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fluence in philosophy
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REPRESENTATION 2 THE PHANTASY OR IMAGING
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Sleep as a Condition of the Body or Sleep Physiologically considered
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with surprising energy 833 Does the somnambulist perceive at all with the senses?The
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REPRESENTATION 3 THE IMAGINATION OR CREATIVE
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The concept an object and not an act 417 Implies the distinction of beings
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Can be used for naming 421 It is a classifying agent 422 It is applied to an object
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the nature of names4 In the nature of knowledgeMutual relations of the concept and
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REASONINGDEDUCTION OR MEDIATE JUDGMENT
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Deduction and the Syllogism
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None of these dicta satisfactoryThe Syllogism not a petitio principiiThe Syllogism
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The construction of geometrical figures Auxiliary linesTentative processes often required
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INDUCTIVE REASONING OR INDUCTION
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prehensive 478 Recognize mathematical relations 479 One induction prepares the
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THEORIES OF INTUITIVE KNowledge
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discerned by the light of nature 530 That they are innate or connate 531 The views
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velopment of the several relations of extensionVoid or inclosing spaceMatter incloses void
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Of Mutual Relations of Extended and Enduring Objects
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Beyond these we use the imaginationHow the child imagines distant objectsThe uncul
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Duration how related to the acts of the soulThe acts of the soul not distinguished
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Of the Application of Mathematical Relations to Psychical Phenomena
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Of Space and Time as Infinite and Unconditioned
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CAUSATION AND THE RELATION OF CAUSATION
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Can time and space relations etc be still further generalized?The universality
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edPower and law how distinguished 587 What is an event?Events in the material world
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edge which rests upon efficient causation
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an application conceded to be desirable 608 Reasons The mind impelled to connect objects
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Mental or Spiritual Substance
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The Mutual Relations of Material and Spiritual Substance next claim
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Of the Real as Opposed to the Phenomenal
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The Infinite and the Absolutetheir Relations to the Finite and Dependent
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Page 415 - Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middlesized man.
Page 365 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling. Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 415 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Page 653 - And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Page 601 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 87 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 406 - 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.
Page 117 - The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: And it requires art and pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own object.
Page 264 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 318 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor— thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.

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