Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they do not conform to law, this work, in common with all works on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of psychology is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing... The Principles of Psychology - الصفحة 503بواسطة Herbert Spencer - 1872عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...law as the simplex reflex actions To reduce the general question to its simplest form : —Psychical changes either conform to law, or they do not. If...science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform tu law, there cannot be any such thing as free-will. (Page G1U.) We cannot now enter upon the well-worn... | |
| John Dickson Bruns - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 62
...of course. " To reduce the general question," says Spencer, " to its simplest form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they do not conform to law, no science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as... | |
| 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 824
...it may be well to pause a moment to look at his twofold argument. " Psychical changes," he says, " either conform to law, or they do not. If they do...subject, is sheer nonsense ; no science of psychology is 230 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEOLOGY SURE. possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such... | |
| John Burley Waring - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...But we are satisfied to quote some of the author's own last words : " Psychical changes," he submits, "either conform to law, or they do not. If they do not conform to law, this work (his work), in common with all works on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of psychology is... | |
| 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 114
...psychical changes (thoughts, &c.) conform to law, or else a science of Psychology is impossible; and "if they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as free-will." And yet the idea of Correlation, when reduced to its lowest terms, gives us self-movement... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...bay. Hear him in his final § 220. " To reduce the general question to its simplest form : psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...not conform to law, this work, in common with all other works on the subject, is sheer nonsense ; no science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform... | |
| 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 818
...it may be well to pause a moment to look at his twofold argument. " Psychical changes," he says, " either conform to law, or they do not. If they do...conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as free-will." This is his first argument, in his own language. It rests on the assumption which every... | |
| William Gresley - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...matter on its true basis. " To reduce the general question to its simplest form," he says, " Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will." 1 So if there is any such thing as free will in the world, the science of psychology is " sheer nonsense."... | |
| William Gresley - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...matter on its true basis. " To reduce the general question to its simplest form," he says, " Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will." l So if there is any such thing as free will in the world, the science of psychology is " sheer nonsense."... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 1012
...general question to its simplest form," he says (" Principles of Psychology," § 220), " psychical changes either conform to law, or they do not. If...possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be such a thing as freewill." For the study of the relations which he regards as the subject-matter of... | |
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