The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... color to the supposition that intellectual philosophy is concerned with , obscure , indeterminate , and indeterminable questions , that are equally fruit- less and hopeless of any intelligible result . 12. In this place we need only ...
... color to the supposition that intellectual philosophy is concerned with , obscure , indeterminate , and indeterminable questions , that are equally fruit- less and hopeless of any intelligible result . 12. In this place we need only ...
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... color is blue , I find it easy to imagine it to be of any other color — it might be red or yellow . These colors , therefore , are in idea separ- able from the object before me . I can think of them apart from it ; I can take them up in ...
... color is blue , I find it easy to imagine it to be of any other color — it might be red or yellow . These colors , therefore , are in idea separ- able from the object before me . I can think of them apart from it ; I can take them up in ...
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... color is a gray blue - the color of iron . When struck , it gives a sharp metallic sound . If I apply the tongue to it , it affects the taste in a peculiar manner . Let me retain the idea of the solid sphere , but suppose it to show a ...
... color is a gray blue - the color of iron . When struck , it gives a sharp metallic sound . If I apply the tongue to it , it affects the taste in a peculiar manner . Let me retain the idea of the solid sphere , but suppose it to show a ...
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... color ; but we imagine it to be colorless —it is translucent , and it is so placed as to show nei- ther reflection of light nor refraction ; but it retains its solidity and its spherical form . 53. We next suppose the sphere to pass ...
... color ; but we imagine it to be colorless —it is translucent , and it is so placed as to show nei- ther reflection of light nor refraction ; but it retains its solidity and its spherical form . 53. We next suppose the sphere to pass ...
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... color , whether sombre or gay , but I can not bring them to fit , edge to edge , in any way ; the fragments have no continuity ; or let me take the dreams of Monday night entire , and endeavor to join them on to the dreams of Tuesday ...
... color , whether sombre or gay , but I can not bring them to fit , edge to edge , in any way ; the fragments have no continuity ; or let me take the dreams of Monday night entire , and endeavor to join them on to the dreams of Tuesday ...
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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.