The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... carrying on any process of thought concerning purely abstract notions , ordi- nary language , which is our only medium , is not sus- ceptible of any such fixedness and precision as be- longs to geometric and arithmetical symbols . The ...
... carrying on any process of thought concerning purely abstract notions , ordi- nary language , which is our only medium , is not sus- ceptible of any such fixedness and precision as be- longs to geometric and arithmetical symbols . The ...
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... carried to and fro by forces arising from within . Yet , is not this inner impulse itself as much necessitated as are the outer forces of the wind and of gravitation ? Is , then , the distinction to be accounted real in a strictly ...
... carried to and fro by forces arising from within . Yet , is not this inner impulse itself as much necessitated as are the outer forces of the wind and of gravitation ? Is , then , the distinction to be accounted real in a strictly ...
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... carried forward on the ground of a pure- ly physical inquiry , and it will come to be considered further on in our course . What we have now to do is to trace to their origin our own abstract notions , and to bring the terms which ...
... carried forward on the ground of a pure- ly physical inquiry , and it will come to be considered further on in our course . What we have now to do is to trace to their origin our own abstract notions , and to bring the terms which ...
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... carry it up again near to the level from whence it had started ; so that if a little more force be added to it from some other power , this addition will suffice for carrying it quite up to that first level , and thus the fall and the ...
... carry it up again near to the level from whence it had started ; so that if a little more force be added to it from some other power , this addition will suffice for carrying it quite up to that first level , and thus the fall and the ...
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... carry us , there we must go on , whether we are individually mindful of religion or not . 209. By following the course of thought , I mean this - that , as often as any abstract notion indicates some other notion in advance of itself ...
... carry us , there we must go on , whether we are individually mindful of religion or not . 209. By following the course of thought , I mean this - that , as often as any abstract notion indicates some other notion in advance of itself ...
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abstract notions advance affections affirm animal mind animal orders animal organization Astronomy beauty become belief belongs bring brute causation cerning chemical affinity colors concerning condition consciousness constitution course difference distinction elementary book elements emotions existence fact faculty feeling force forward give ground human family human mind human nature human voice hyæna hypothesis ical idea imagine impulse individual infinite infusoria instance instincts intel intellectual philosophy intensity kind labor less logical look Love manner mass material world mathematical matter means ment Mental Philosophy merely metaphysical modes moral motives musical ness never objects ourselves philosophy of Mind physical sciences physiology pleasurable possess present principle purpose question reality reason regard relation remote rudiment scheme sciousness selfism sensations sense social sort species structure supposition sympathies take effect taste things thought tion true truth volition words world of Mind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 255 - The idea of a man enjoying a train of pleasures, or happiness, is felt by every body to be a pleasurable idea. The idea of a man under a train of sufferings or pains is equally felt to be a painful idea. This can arise from nothing but the association of our own pleasures with the first idea, and of our own pains with the second. We never feel any pains and pleasures but our own.
Seite 103 - That this is the fact might be very safely inferred from what has hitherto been, the issue, without an exception, of the many ingenious theories propounded with the intention of laying open the world of Mind by the help of chemistry, or any of those sciences that are properly called physical. Every theory resting upon this basis has presently gone off into some quackery, raised for awhile among the uneducated, and soon forgotten.
Seite 106 - Much of that which is to invite attention in this elementary book will consist of an exhibition — first, of what is common to all orders of living beings ; and then a setting forth of what is peculiar to the human mind, and which is the ground of its immeasurable superiority.