The Principles of PsychologyG.P. Putnam and son, 1869 - 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 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 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 94 - The renewed feeling occupies the very same parts, and in the same manner, as the original feeling, and no other parts, nor in any other assignable manner.
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 181 - But though space must be admitted to be necessarily either finite or infinite, we are able to conceive the possibility neither of its finitude nor of its infinity. " We are altogether unable to conceive space as bounded, — as finite; that is, as a whole, beyond which there is no further space.
Strana 106 - What is termed judgment may consist in discrimination on the one hand, or in the sense of agreement on the other : we determine two or more things either to differ or to agree. It is impossible to find any case of judging that does not, in the last resort, mean one or other of these two essential activities of the intellect.
Strana iv - All success to the students of physical science : but each of its fields may have its triumphs, and the secrets of mind remain as unapproachable as hitherto. With philosophy and not without it, under its own laws and not under the laws of a lower realm, must be found those clues of success, those principles of investigation, which can alone place this highest form of knowledge in its true position. The following treatise is at least a patient effort to make a contribution to this, amid all failures,...