Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2Wells and Lilly, 1921 - Psychology |
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... respect to the subject of the following work , I have thought it proper , in this preliminary chapter , first , to explain the nature of the truths which I propose to investigate ; and , secondly , to point out some of the more ...
... respect to the subject of the following work , I have thought it proper , in this preliminary chapter , first , to explain the nature of the truths which I propose to investigate ; and , secondly , to point out some of the more ...
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... respect to mind , and that the words , which express its different operations , are almost all borrowed from the objects of our senses . It must , however , appear manifest , upon a very little reflection , that as the two subjects are ...
... respect to mind , and that the words , which express its different operations , are almost all borrowed from the objects of our senses . It must , however , appear manifest , upon a very little reflection , that as the two subjects are ...
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... respect to the mind , as are contained in the two following passages from Locke and Newton ? " Habits , " ( says Locke , ) " seem to be but trains of motion , in the " animal spirits , which , once set a - going , continue in the same ...
... respect to the mind , as are contained in the two following passages from Locke and Newton ? " Habits , " ( says Locke , ) " seem to be but trains of motion , in the " animal spirits , which , once set a - going , continue in the same ...
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... respect to the certainty of the fact on which this opinion is founded . Supposing the fact to be completely established , it must still be remembered , that originality of genius does not always imply vigour and comprehensiveness and ...
... respect to the certainty of the fact on which this opinion is founded . Supposing the fact to be completely established , it must still be remembered , that originality of genius does not always imply vigour and comprehensiveness and ...
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... respect to the utility of the philosophy of mind , that as there are some arts , in which we not only employ the intellectual faculties as instruments , but operate on the mind as a subject , so , to those individuals who aim at ...
... respect to the utility of the philosophy of mind , that as there are some arts , in which we not only employ the intellectual faculties as instruments , but operate on the mind as a subject , so , to those individuals who aim at ...
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Page 165 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 58 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other : and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge.
Page 264 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 50 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 44 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room : for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Page 274 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Page 258 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 126 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 65 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Page 314 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie, form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.