The Principles of Psychology, Band 2D. Appleton, 1873 |
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accompanying action æsthetic antecedent Anti-Realistic argument arise asserted attri attributes axiom become before-known body cause chapter coexistent positions cognition cohesion colour common complex conceived conception conclusion connatural connexions considered correlative definite degree distinguished elements emotion equal established excited existence experiences express fact faint feeling further greater habitually Hence ideas implies impressions inconceivable inference intuition involved kind known laws of thought less magnitudes manifest means metaphysicians mind mode motion muscular tension nature nervous ness nexions object Objective Science observe pain particular perceived perception phenomena pleasure possible predicate premiss present produced proposition reached Realism 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 successive suppose syllogism symbols sympathy tactual things thought tion truth unlike visual visual perception vivid aggregate words
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Seite 331 - 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 ;...
Seite 345 - 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 so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.
Seite 25 - If a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles of every triangle are together equal to two right angles.
Seite 202 - 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.
Seite 345 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence.
Seite 351 - 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.
Seite 332 - By the term impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And impressions are distinguished from ideas, which are the less lively perceptions, of which we are conscious, when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.
Seite 345 - ALL the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in short, every affirmation, which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain.
Seite 345 - That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We 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.