The Elements of the Psychology of CognitionMacmillan [and Company], 1885 - 351 Seiten |
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abstraction actual appear assertion association assumed belief Berkeley bodies called cause CHAP co-existence complex conception connection constitution copula Descartes distance distinction doctrine dualism elements examine example existence experience expressed external objects facts gism group of sensations Hume hypothesis ideal imagination immediate important impressions Inductive Inference inference inseparable intuition J. S. Mill kind knowledge known laws ledge Malebranche matter means mental phenomena mind motion muscular sensations nature nervous non-ego object of perception objectified objects of consciousness observed organism original oviparous particular perceive phantasms pheno phenomenon philosophers physical physiologists possess possible predication present primary qualities principle priori produced proposition psychogenetical psychology racter reason recognised reference regarding Reid relation represent representation resemblance result retina revived sations sciousness SECT seen sensation of colour sensations of sight sense sight simple smell space supposed syllogism tactual sensation taste term theory things thought tion unknown
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Seite 123 - The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions which enter with most force and violence we may name impressions; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions, and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul. By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning...
Seite 122 - All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness.
Seite 116 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind is what everybody will allow. And to me it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the Sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose) , cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them.
Seite 106 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Seite 107 - I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves ; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all.
Seite 118 - ... but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities to be patterns or images of things which exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance which they call matter. By matter therefore we are to understand an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion, do actually subsist.
Seite 118 - We perceive a continual succession of ideas; some are anew excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore, some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend, and which produces and changes them.
Seite 123 - There is another division of our perceptions, which it will be convenient to observe, and which extends itself both to our impressions and ideas. This division is into SIMPLE and COMPLEX. Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. The complex are the contrary to these, and may be distinguished into parts. Tho...
Seite 138 - If, therefore, we attend to that act of our mind which we call the perception of an external object of sense, we shall find in it these three things: — First, Some conception or notion of the * Edinburgh, 1785.
Seite 117 - Now for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing, is a manifest contradiction; for to have an idea is all one as to perceive: that therefore wherein colour, figure, and the like qualities exist, must perceive them; hence it is clear there can be no unthinking substance or substratum of those ideas.