Man and Civilization ...Columbia University Press, 1926 - 117 páginas |
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... symbol , for we are able to name anything by some combination of our twenty - six symbols , whereas when pictographs are employed an entirely new symbol is required for every thing that is named . The advantages conferred by a flexible ...
... symbol , for we are able to name anything by some combination of our twenty - six symbols , whereas when pictographs are employed an entirely new symbol is required for every thing that is named . The advantages conferred by a flexible ...
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... symbol of the union of Christ with His Church . Once it was vain and frustrated without the satisfaction of desire ; now the rejected lover feels that he reaps the fruit of his passion as fully as his successful rival . It goes without ...
... symbol of the union of Christ with His Church . Once it was vain and frustrated without the satisfaction of desire ; now the rejected lover feels that he reaps the fruit of his passion as fully as his successful rival . It goes without ...
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... and its effect upon the workers in the automotive industry , Annals of the Acad . of Polit . and Soc . Sci . , Vol . 116 ( 1924 ) , 37-43 . CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE Symbols.1 A little observation will convince us 170 MAN AND CIVILIZATION.
... and its effect upon the workers in the automotive industry , Annals of the Acad . of Polit . and Soc . Sci . , Vol . 116 ( 1924 ) , 37-43 . CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE Symbols.1 A little observation will convince us 170 MAN AND CIVILIZATION.
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John Storck. CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE Symbols.1 A little observation will convince us that many of our experi ences function in two rather different settings . In the first place , they obviously exist and are exactly what they are ; but in ...
John Storck. CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE Symbols.1 A little observation will convince us that many of our experi ences function in two rather different settings . In the first place , they obviously exist and are exactly what they are ; but in ...
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... symbols . Symbols are perfectly objective phenomena and are directly sharable , whereas meanings are psychological phenomena , and can be shared only indirectly through inference or imaginative reconstruction , based upon the ...
... symbols . Symbols are perfectly objective phenomena and are directly sharable , whereas meanings are psychological phenomena , and can be shared only indirectly through inference or imaginative reconstruction , based upon the ...
Términos y frases comunes
action activities appearance Aristotle become behavior biological birth blister steel body C. K. Ogden cells chapter child civilization complex connection conscious considerable course culture degree depend determining discoveries doubt effect elements emotional engine environment existing experience fairly feeling function germ cells germ plasm glands Graham Wallas habits human ideal ideas imagination important impulses individual industry instances interest invention knowledge L. L. Thurstone language large number lives machine manner materials means ment mental mind modern movements muscles natural facts nervous system never normal notions objects organism persons possible present problems Psychology reflex arcs regarded relations respect responses routines Samuel Butler seldom sexual Sigmund Freud situation social heritage specific steam steam engine stimulation symbols T. H. Morgan things thinking tion traits usually W. H. R. Rivers whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 53 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are 135 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 42 - Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one...
Página 152 - I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Página 108 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it, and the further conclusions to which it tends, constitutes reflective thought.
Página 40 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches...
Página 43 - Some of us, indeed, are inclined to think that it is a kind of disease which the various races of man have to pass through— as children pass through measles or whooping cough; but if it is a disease, there is this serious consideration to be made, that while History tells us of many nations that have been attacked by it, of many that have succumbed to it, and of some that are still in the throes of it, we know of no single case in which a nation has fairly recovered from and passed through it to...
Página 48 - I teach you the superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man? What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a...
Página 189 - To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her. "Thus we may be sure that, however mysterious some animals' instincts may appear to us, our instincts will appear no less mysterious to them.
Página 104 - To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Página 24 - Where the dark mist curtains the doorway The path to which is on the rainbow Where the zigzag lightning stands high on top, Where the he-rain stands high on top, Oh male divinity!