The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... pure mathematics might be so re- garded , for these also are a product of the same faculty , although employed in a different direction , and as con- fined to a particular class of ideas — those of number and extension ; therefore this ...
... pure mathematics might be so re- garded , for these also are a product of the same faculty , although employed in a different direction , and as con- fined to a particular class of ideas — those of number and extension ; therefore this ...
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... Pure abstractions , such as those which we have now lately had to do with , may not hitherto have en- gaged our attention , and therefore it may happen that , when we hear the terms in which they are conveyed , we may fail to connect ...
... Pure abstractions , such as those which we have now lately had to do with , may not hitherto have en- gaged our attention , and therefore it may happen that , when we hear the terms in which they are conveyed , we may fail to connect ...
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... 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 convey these notions into Whether it be ...
... 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 convey these notions into Whether it be ...
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... pure abstraction , is recognized in this , in that , in many instances , which , at the first view of them , differ in many respects , and they so differ that it is with an emotion , first of surprise and then of pleasure , that we ...
... pure abstraction , is recognized in this , in that , in many instances , which , at the first view of them , differ in many respects , and they so differ that it is with an emotion , first of surprise and then of pleasure , that we ...
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... pure abstraction , pursued to its rudiments , can never yield an assurance of truth . 220. Assurance of truth must be the product of con- cretive or synthetic thought when it issues in bringing before us a system of fitness and order ...
... pure abstraction , pursued to its rudiments , can never yield an assurance of truth . 220. Assurance of truth must be the product of con- cretive or synthetic thought when it issues in bringing before us a system of fitness and order ...
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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
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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.