Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and WillGould and Lincoln, 1867 - 590 pagina's |
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... question . To doubt our own consciousness is to call in question our very doubt , since the only evidence of our doubting is the con- sciousness that we doubt . As to the phenomena of the ex- ternal world the things that are passing ...
... question . To doubt our own consciousness is to call in question our very doubt , since the only evidence of our doubting is the con- sciousness that we doubt . As to the phenomena of the ex- ternal world the things that are passing ...
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... question no longer is , Whence comes that swift ship , and whither goes it , but , What am I , and whither going ... questions and themes which mental philosophy discusses , and we perceive at a glance their intimate connection with the ...
... question no longer is , Whence comes that swift ship , and whither goes it , but , What am I , and whither going ... questions and themes which mental philosophy discusses , and we perceive at a glance their intimate connection with the ...
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... Question . But aside from this , even admitting that the acts under consideration are such as to involve men- tal activity , what evidence is there , it may still be asked , that there was at the moment no consciousness of that ac ...
... Question . But aside from this , even admitting that the acts under consideration are such as to involve men- tal activity , what evidence is there , it may still be asked , that there was at the moment no consciousness of that ac ...
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... question somewhat discussed among philosophers , whether those acts which from habit we have learned to perform with ... question in the negative , pronouncing the acts in question to be merely automatic and mechanical , and not properly ...
... question somewhat discussed among philosophers , whether those acts which from habit we have learned to perform with ... question in the negative , pronouncing the acts in question to be merely automatic and mechanical , and not properly ...
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... Question undecided . — The question is a curious one , and with the arguments on either side , as now presented , I leave it to the reader's individual judgment and decision . Mr. Stewart is doubtless correct as to the rapidity of ...
... Question undecided . — The question is a curious one , and with the arguments on either side , as now presented , I leave it to the reader's individual judgment and decision . Mr. Stewart is doubtless correct as to the rapidity of ...
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abstract action affected affirm Aristotle association attention awakened beautiful bipeds brute called cause ception circumstances cognizance color conceive conception connection consciousness constitution denote Descartes desire distinct distinguished dreams elements emotion equilibrist essential exercise existence external object fact faculty feeling former gism given human idea identity imagination impression Inductive Reasoning inference instance instinct intellectual intelligence intuitive involved ject judgment knowledge laws laws of thought matter memory men are mortal mental activity Mental Philosophy merely mind moral nature Nominalist observation operations organism original passing perceive perception phenomena philosophy philosophy of perception Plato present primary principle produced properly proposition qualities of bodies question reality reason regard Reid relation result sensation sense sensible simple Sir William Hamilton sleep Socrates somnambulism space Stewart suggestion supposed syllogism taste term theory thing thought tion true truth volition Wayland word writers
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Pagina 414 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Pagina 398 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Pagina 415 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Pagina 420 - But I remember when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
Pagina 157 - The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.
Pagina 423 - The reason is, that the outward signs of a dull man and a wise man are the same, and so are the outward signs of a frivolous man and a witty man ; and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and...
Pagina 424 - But when wit is combined with sense and information; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.
Pagina 202 - The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.