The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1H. Holt, 1890 - 1393 páginas |
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... means ! Such contrasts between living and inanimate perform- ances end by leading men to deny that in the physical world final purposes exist at all . Loves and desires are to - day no longer imputed to particles of iron or of air . No ...
... means ! Such contrasts between living and inanimate perform- ances end by leading men to deny that in the physical world final purposes exist at all . Loves and desires are to - day no longer imputed to particles of iron or of air . No ...
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... means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the presence of mentality in a phenomenon . We all use this test to dis- criminate between an intelligent and a mechanical per- formance . Wo impute no mentality to sticks ...
... means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the presence of mentality in a phenomenon . We all use this test to dis- criminate between an intelligent and a mechanical per- formance . Wo impute no mentality to sticks ...
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... means of effecting that purpose prove fruitless , other means should be tried . Every failure must keep the animal in a state of disappointment which will lead to all sorts of new trials and devices ; and tran- quillity will not ensue ...
... means of effecting that purpose prove fruitless , other means should be tried . Every failure must keep the animal in a state of disappointment which will lead to all sorts of new trials and devices ; and tran- quillity will not ensue ...
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... means , can be called indubitable expressions of Mind . I shall then adopt this as the criterion by which to cir- cumscribe the subject - matter of this work so far as action enters into it . Many nervous performances will therefore be ...
... means , can be called indubitable expressions of Mind . I shall then adopt this as the criterion by which to cir- cumscribe the subject - matter of this work so far as action enters into it . Many nervous performances will therefore be ...
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... means for the attainment of a supposed end , all the acts seem to be inspired by intelligence , for appropriateness characterizes them all alike . This fact , now , has led to two quite opposite theories about the relation to ...
... means for the attainment of a supposed end , all the acts seem to be inspired by intelligence , for appropriateness characterizes them all alike . This fact , now , has led to two quite opposite theories about the relation to ...
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abstract activity aphasia appear asso association associationist attention awaken become bodily brain brain-process called cerebral chapter cognitive conceived conception connection consciousness cortex discrimination distinct effect elements excited exist experience F. H. Bradley fact feeling felt frog function give habit hand hemispheres ideas identity impression interest interval J. S. Mill James Mill knowledge matter means medulla oblongata memory mental mind motor movements nature nervous never notion object observations occipital lobes once organs pass past paths perceive perception person phenomena Physiol possible present psychic psychology reaction reaction-time reason recall redintegration reflex reflex action relations remember result sciousness seems sensations sense sensibility sensorial simple sort soul sound specious present spinal cord spiritualistic stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion uncon unconscious Weber's law whilst whole words Wundt
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Página 341 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 341 - 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.
Página 123 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Página 474 - And hence, perhaps, may be given som* reason of that common observation, — that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason.
Página 539 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin: — 'Why, that I cannot tell,' said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.
Página 342 - 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. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension 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...
Página 284 - ... and acted as if we were non-existing things, a kind of rage and impotent despair would ere long well up in us, from which the gWellest bodily tortures would be a relief ; for these would make us feel that, however bad might be our plight, we had not sunk to such a depth as to be unworthy of attention at all.
Página 123 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Página 235 - Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as ' chain' or ' train' do not describe it fitly as 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.
Página 121 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character...