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action activity appear association attention become body brain called cause centres certain chapter comes complete conceived conception connection consciousness continuous course direct discrimination distinct effect elements entirely example excited exist experience fact feeling felt function give given hand hear ideas identity immediately impression individual interest kind knowledge known less look matter means memory mental mind motor movements nature never object observations occur once organs original particular pass past paths perceive perception person position possible practical present psychology question reason relations remains remember result seems sensations sense sensibility separate similar simple single sort soul sound stand stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion true turn whilst whole
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Página 336 - we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, nor of the material of which it is composed.
Página 132 - Abandoning all disguise, the confession that I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with
Página 277 - A man's Social Self is the recognition which he gets from his mates. We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible,
Página 106 - cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his
Página 336 - inhere in something simple or individual, or did the mind perceive some real connection among them, there would be no difficulty in the case. For my part, I must plead the privilege of a sceptic and confess that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding. I pretend not, however, to pronounce it
Página 335 - anyone, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we
Página 223 - it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed ; it flows. A ' river' or a ' stream ' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of
Página 336 - soul which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
Página 589 - but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forward-looking end.
Página 115 - of men ; and. therefore, that all states of consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the motion of the matter of the organism.
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| Título | The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1 ATLA monograph preservation program American science series American science series: Advanced course The Principles of Psychology, William James [American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection |
| Autor | William James |
| Editor | H. Holt, 1890 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 7 Dic. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0790599732, 9780790599731 |
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