The Principles of Psychology, Volume 5

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D. Appleton, 1890
 

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Pagina 342 - manner ; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever BO conformable to reality. That
Pagina 60 - asserts that the thing or set of things which are the subject of that premiss, have the first-mentioned attribute; and the conclusion is, that they have (or that they have not) the second. Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the
Pagina 341 - our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones." Having alleged that we have no real ideas but what are thus derived, he proceeds to make this derivation the test of real ideas, and winds up the Section by saying :—
Pagina 328 - 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,
Pagina 342 - 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." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions of the mind " are divided into impressions and ideas, and in the other of which "all the
Pagina 696 - and Statical Attributes. 13. The Perception of Body as presenting Statical Attributes. 14. The Perception of Space. 15. The Perception of Time. 16. The Perception of Motion. 17. The Perception of Resistance. 18. Perception in general. 19. The Relations of Similarity and Dissimilarity. 20. The Relations of Cointcnsion and Non-Cointension. 21. The Relations of
Pagina 696 - (continued). 4. Imperfect and Simple Quantitative Reasoning. 5. Quantitative Reasoning in general. 6. Perfect Qualitative Reasoning. 7. Imperfect Qualitative Reasoning. 8. Reasoning in general. 9. Classification, Naming, and Recognition. 10. The Perception of Special Objects. 11. The Perception of Body as presenting Dynamical, StaticoDynamical, and Statical Attributes. 12. The Perception of Body as presenting
Pagina 598 - and consequently understood by inferior mammals, as every puppy shows us. What we call the natural language of anger, is due to a partial contraction of those muscles which actual combat would call into play ; and all marks of irritation, down to that passing shade over the brow which accompanies slight annoyance, are incipient stages of these

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