The Concept of ConsciousnessMacmillan, 1914 - 343 من الصفحات |
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absolute action-theory activity admitted asserted Berkeley called cerebrum chapter co-ordination coherent colour concepts concrete consciousness consistent contradiction contradictory correspondence course cross-section deductive system definition Democritus distinct drainage-theory dualistic elements empirical energy epistemology error experience fact fundamental H. H. Joachim idea idealism instance introspection involved Joachim judgement knowledge system knowledge-mass laws least logical logician manifold masses mathematical mathematical logic McDougall means mental merely monism motion Münsterberg nature nervous system neutral entities neutral realm one's particular person philosophy physical objects physiological physiological psychology position postulates precisely predicate present psychic psychology purely purpose reflection reflex relations representative theory Russell means sciousness secondary qualities seems sensation and perception sense space spatial subjective subjective idealism substance supposed symbolic synapses system of terms temporal theory of knowledge things thought tion true truth unity universal predicate universe universe of discourse vis viva volition whole
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الصفحة 91 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
الصفحة 223 - I conclude, then, that the relation affirmed between A and B in the proposition "A differs from B," is the general relation of difference, and is precisely and numerically the same as the relation affirmed between C and D, in "C differs from D.
الصفحة 60 - Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a complete induction ; while in others, myriads of concurring instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question, knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and has solved the problem of induction.
الصفحة 138 - consciousness," when once it has evaporated to this estate of pure diaphaneity, is on the point of disappearing altogether. It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles. Those who still cling to it are clinging to a mere echo, the faint rumor left behind by the disappearing "soul
الصفحة 119 - Matter is an essential part of all corporeal things. We both, therefore, agree in this, that we perceive only sensible forms: but herein we differ, you will have them to be empty appearances, I real beings. In short, you do not trust your senses, I do.
الصفحة 66 - A is not" implies that there is a term A whose being is denied, and hence that A is. Thus unless "A is not" be an empty sound, it must be false - whatever A may be, it certainly is.
الصفحة 94 - ... that it is only suggested to our thoughts by certain visible ideas and sensations attending vision, which in their own nature have no manner of similitude or relation either with distance or things placed at a distance ; but by a...
الصفحة 67 - Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term, to every possible object of thought - in short to everything that can possibly occur in any proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted. If A be any term that can be counted as one, it is plain that A is something, and therefore that A is. "A is not" must always be either false or meaningless.
الصفحة 108 - ... feeling in our mind? Practically we treat it as both or as either, according to the temporary direction of our thought. 'Beauty,' says Professor Santayana, 'is pleasure objectified'; and in Sections 10 and 11 of his work, The Sense of Beauty, he treats in a masterly way of this equivocal realm. The various pleasures we receive from an object may count as 'feelings...
الصفحة 259 - ... the paradox need not be solved. Errors are contradictions, yes: but contradictions may be. In fact, the world is full of them. "Whenever a moving body strikes another and is stopped or turned, the law of its motion is contradicted ... all phenomena of interference are cases of contradiction. ... At the point of interference the vibratory motions imparted to the ether or to molecules are contradictory to one another, and at that point the wave-motion ceases; and energy is said to have assumed...