The Principles of Psychology

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G.P. Putnam and sons, 1872 - Počet stran: 345
 

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Strana 48 - I have always observed, that when suddenly awakened during sleep (and to ascertain the fact I have caused myself to be roused at different seasons of the night), I have always been able to- observe that I was in the middle of a dream. The recollection of this dream was not always equally vivid. On some occasions, I was able to trace it back until the train was gradually lost at a remote distance ; on others, I was hardly aware of more than one or two of the latter links of the chain ; and, sometimes,...
Strana 66 - We may, therefore, lay it down as an undisputed truth, that consciousness gives, as an ultimate fact, a primitive duality ; a knowledge of the ego in relation and contrast to the non-ego ; and a knowledge of the non-ego in relation and contrast to the ego. The ego and non-ego are thus given in an original synthesis, as conjoined in the unity of knowledge, and in an original antithesis, as opposed in the contrariety of existence.
Strana 104 - And in a subsequent part of his Course : " You will f • Lectures, i. 204. t Ibid. ii. 277, 278. recollect that, when treating of Consciousness in general, I stated to you that consciousness necessarily involves a judgment ; and as every act of mind is an act of consciousness, every act of mind, consequently, involves a judgment. A consciousness is necessarily the consciousness of a determinate something, and we cannot be conscious of anything without virtually affirming its existence, that is,...
Strana 105 - It is not by perception, but by a process of reasoning, that we connect the objects of sense with existences beyond the sphere of immediate knowledge. It is enough that perception affords us the knowledge of the Non-ego at the point of sense. To arrogate to it the power of immediately informing us of external things, which are only the causes of the object we immediately perceive, is either positively erroneous, or a confusion of language, arising from an inadequate discrimination of the phenomena.
Strana 176 - Of these two repugnant opposites, the one is that of Unconditional or Absolute Limitation ; the other, that of Unconditional or Infinite Illimitation. The one we may, therefore, in general call the Absolutely Unconditioned ; the other, the Infinitely Unconditioned ; or, more simply, the Absolute and the Infinite ; the term absolute expressing that which is finished or complete, the term infinite, that which cannot be terminated or concluded.
Strana 56 - In the first place, it does not mean that we perceive the material reality absolutely and in itself, that is, out of relation to our organs and faculties ; on the contrary, the total and real object of perception is the external object under relation to our sense and faculty of cognition.
Strana 81 - But the mental activity, the act of knowledge, of which I now speak, is more than this ; it is an energy of the self-active power of a subject one and indivisible : consequently, a part of the Ego must be detached or annihilated, if a cognition once existent be again extinguished.
Strana 149 - But in this application is the principle of Causality not given ? Why, what is the law of Causality ? Simply this, — that when an object is presented phenomenally as commencing, we cannot but suppose that the complement of existence, which it now contains, has previously been ; in other words, that all that we at present come to know as an effect must previously have existed in its causes ; though what these causes are we may perhaps be altogether unable even to surmise.
Strana 174 - ... 9. An absolutely quickest motion is that which passes from one point to another in space in a minimum of time. But a quickest motion from one point to another, say a mile distance, and from one to another, say a million million of miles, is thought the same ; which is absurd. " 10. A wheel turned with quickest motion ; if a spoke be prolonged, it will, therefore, be moved by a motion quicker than the quickest. The same may be shown using the rim and the nave.
Strana 175 - On the other hand, we are equally powerless to realize in thought the possibility of the opposite contradictory ; we cannot conceive space as infinite, as without limits.

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