Mental science

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American Book Company, 1868 - 539 oldal
 

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44. oldal - separated ; or that I can frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars in the manner aforesaid, which two last are the proper acceptations of abstractions." HUME follows Berkeley's Nominalism with avidity and admiration, and inadvertently ascribes to Berkeley the authorship of the doctrine. 'A very material question,' he says, ' has been started concerning abstract or general ideas, whether they be general
416. oldal - motion. He said that a body must move either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not ; but in neither case is motion possible ; for on the first supposition the body leaves its
80. oldal - of a first principle.] (6) We have some degree of power over our actions and the determinations of our will. The origin of our idea of power is not easily assigned. Power is not an object of sense or consciousness. We see events as successive, but not the power whereby they are produced. We are
80. oldal - according to circumstances. In men of sound mind, we expect a certain degree of regularity in their conduct. (12) In the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like what has been in similar circumstances. Hume has shown that this principle is not grounded on reason, and has not the intuitive evidence of mathematical axioms.
220. oldal - suggests a physical as well as a mental phenomenon. 5. The Law of DIFFUSION is thus expressed :—' According as an impression is accompanied with Feeling, the aroused currents diffuse themselves freely over the brain, leading to a general agitation of the moving organs, as well as affecting the viscera.
316. oldal - the Gladiator, and the Apollo. He observes that each of these is a representation, not of an individual, but of a class, within the class man, and is the central idea of its class. Not any one gives the ideal beauty of the species man ; ' for perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful
131. oldal - THE statement of this law is as follows :— Present Actions, Sensations, Thoughts, or Emotions tend to revive their LIKE among previously occurring states. Contiguity joins together things that occur together, or that are, by any circumstance, presented to the mind at the
80. oldal - be frightened by an angry or threatening tone of voice. (10) There is a certain regard due to human testimony in matters of fact, and even to human authority in matters of opinion. (11) There are many events depending on the will of man, possessing a self-evident probability, greater or
79. oldal - can converse and transact business with, or call to account for their conduct. 'To judge of First Principles requires no more than a sound mind free from prejudice, and a distinct conception of the question. The learned and the unlearned, the philosopher and the day-labourer, are upon a level, and will pass the
81. oldal - Senses. (1) A certain sensation of touch suggests to the mind the conception of hardness, and creates the belief of its existence. (2) The notion of extension is suggested by feelings of touch, but is not given us by any sense. (3) It is by instinct we know the part of our body

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