The Principles of Psychology, المجلد 1

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D. Appleton, 1882
 

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الصفحة 293 - Life is adequately conceived only when we think of it as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.
الصفحة 470 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
الصفحة 163 - The proximate components of Mind are of two broadly-contrasted kinds — Feelings and the relations between feelings. Among the members of each group there exist multitudinous unlikenesses, many of which are extremely strong; but such unlikenesses are small compared with those which distinguish members of the one group from members of the other.
الصفحة 487 - ... greatly exalted. Then there is the sentiment of admiration, respect, or reverence : in itself one of considerable power, and which in this relation becomes in a high degree active. There comes next the feeling called love of approbation. To be preferred above all the world, and that by one admired beyond all others, is to have the love of approbation gratified in a degree passing every previous experience : especially as there is added that indirect gratification of it which results from the...
الصفحة 470 - In the sense, then, that there exist in the nervous system certain pre-established relations answering to relations in the environment, there is truth in the doctrine of " forms of intuition" — not the truth which its defenders suppose, but a parallel truth. Corresponding to absolute external relations, there are established in the structure of the nervous system absolute internal relations — relations that are potentially present before birth in the shape of definite nervous...
الصفحة 627 - We can think of Matter only in terms of Mind. We can think of Mind only in terms of Matter. 'When we have pushed our explorations of the first to the uttermost limit, we are referred to the second for a final answer ; and, when we have got the final answer of the second, we are referred back to the first for an interpretation of it.
الصفحة 140 - While, under its objective aspect, Psychology is to be classed as ono of the concrete sciences which successively decrease in scope as they increase in speciality; under its subjective aspect, Psychology is a totally unique science, independent of, and antithetically opposed to, all other sciences whatever. The thoughts and feelings which constitute a consciousness, and are absolutely inaccessible to any but the possessor of that consciousness, form an existence that has no place among the existences...
الصفحة 397 - ... if the anterior segment of the thorax, with its attached members, be removed, the posterior part of the body will still remain balanced upon the four legs which belong to it, resisting any attempts to overthrow it, recovering its position when disturbed, and performing the same agitated movements of the wings and elytra as when the unmutilated insect is irritated ; on the other hand, the detached portion of the thorax, which contains a ganglion, will, when separated from the head, set in motion...
الصفحة 140 - ... the subjective and objective faces of the same thing, \vo remain utterly incapable of seeing, and even of imagining, how the two are related. Mind still continues to us a something without any kinship to other things...

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