The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... sort ; in truth , science must violate its own rules , and must become conjectural , before it could make any such attempt . But then these con- jectures , or any hypothesis concerning an intellectual community existing beyond , or ...
... sort ; in truth , science must violate its own rules , and must become conjectural , before it could make any such attempt . But then these con- jectures , or any hypothesis concerning an intellectual community existing beyond , or ...
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... sort of knowledge which can be reported and spread out to view in a distinct manner . In all departments of philosophy , human curiosity is stopped at an earlier or at a later stage by an impassable barrier - it meets what is ...
... sort of knowledge which can be reported and spread out to view in a distinct manner . In all departments of philosophy , human curiosity is stopped at an earlier or at a later stage by an impassable barrier - it meets what is ...
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... of things is of another sort , for in this department the facts we have to do with are few , and , in the mode in which the science is usually presented , these few facts assume a very meagre appearance . Moreover 14 THE WORLD OF MIND .
... of things is of another sort , for in this department the facts we have to do with are few , and , in the mode in which the science is usually presented , these few facts assume a very meagre appearance . Moreover 14 THE WORLD OF MIND .
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... sort , therefore , is attempted in this volume . It must , however , be un- derstood and supposed , first , that the writer of such a book has acquainted himself with his subject histor- ically ; and , secondly , that he fairly puts his ...
... sort , therefore , is attempted in this volume . It must , however , be un- derstood and supposed , first , that the writer of such a book has acquainted himself with his subject histor- ically ; and , secondly , that he fairly puts his ...
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... sort will be made in the present instance , for , in truth , the writer entertains no such exalted belief . Nevertheless , he attaches to his subject a real importance , and he is fully of opinion that it deserves and that it would ...
... sort will be made in the present instance , for , in truth , the writer entertains no such exalted belief . Nevertheless , he attaches to his subject a real importance , and he is fully of opinion that it deserves and that it would ...
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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.