I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their... Descartes, Spinoza and the New Philosophy - Pagina 48door James Iverach - 1904 - 245 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Todd K. Bender - 1997 - 192 pagina’s
...perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and arc in perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying...Our thought is still more variable than our sight . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance;... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pagina’s
...which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying...same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and... | |
| William James - 2007 - 709 pagina’s
...which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying...still more variable than our sight; and all our other sens"1? and facnities contribute to this change; nor is there any single power of the soul which remains... | |
| Pali Text Society - 1912 - 190 pagina’s
...the changeable succession of connected qualities." Treatise of Human Nature, Part IV., sec. iii. " Nor is there any single power of the soul which remains unalterably the sa.me, perhaps for one moment. . . . There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in difference . . . memory does... | |
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