The Principles of Psychology, Volumen2D. Appleton, 1873 |
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accompanying action æsthetic angles antecedent arise asserted attri attributes axiom become before-known body changes chapter classification coexistent positions cognition colour common complex conceived conception conclusion connatural connexion consciousness of space considered correlations definite degree elements equal established excited existence experiences express extension eyes fact faint feeling further greater Hence ideas implies impressions inference intensive quantities intuition involved kind known less magnitudes manifest mental act mind motion muscular tension nature nervous ness nexions object objective correlations objective sciences observed pain particular perceived perception phenomena predicated premiss present produced proposition quantitative reasoning ratiocinative recognized rela relation of coexistence relation of ideas representation represented resistance respect retina riences sciousness sensations sentiments sequence sequent similarly simultaneous Sir William Hamilton sound species successive suppose surface syllogism symbols tactual things thought tion truth unequal unlike visual visual perception vivid aggregate words
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 347 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Página 493 - Thus we are brought to the conclusion that what we are conscious of as properties of matter, even down to its weight and resistance, are but subjective affections produced by objective agencies that are unknown and unknowable.
Página 342 - Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence.
Página 328 - 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. The other species want a name in our language, and in most others; I suppose, because it was not requisite for any, but philosophical purposes, to rank them under a general term or appellation. Let us, therefore, use a little freedom, and call them impressions; employing...
Página 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.
Página 27 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle ; any two sides of it together are greater than the third side, viz.
Página 497 - ... produced, that though the effects are totally unlike their causes, and though the relations among the effects are totally unlike the relations among their causes, and though the laws of variation in the one set of relations differ entirely from those in the other ; yet the two may correspond in such way that each change in the objective reality causes in the subjective state a change exactly answering to it — so answering as to constitute a cognition of it.