Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, Volume 1

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Harper & Brothers, 1857 - 515 pagina's

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Design and uses of the senses of smell and taste
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Uses of hearing and its connexion with oral language
96
Section Pago 71 Origin of the notion of extension and of form and figure
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On the sensations of heat and cold
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On the sensation of hardness and softness
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Of certain indefinite feelings sometimes ascribed to the touch
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Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified
104
THE SENSE OF SIGHT 76 Of the organ of sight and the uses or benefits of that sense
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Statement of the mode or process in visual perception
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Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight
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The idea of extension not originally from sight
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Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight
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Measurements of magnitude by the eye
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Of objects seen in the mist and of the sun and moon in the horizon
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Of the estimation of distances by sight
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Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects
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Of objects seen on the ocean c
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Supposed feelings of a being called into existence in the full pos session of his powers
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Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief
119
Conceptions which are joined with perceptions
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Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations
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OF RELIANCE ON THE SENSES 87 By means of sensations we have a knowledge of outward things
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Some alleged mistakes of the senses owing to want of care
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Of mistakes in judging of the motion of objects
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Of mistakes as to the distances and magnitude of objects
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The senses liable to be diseased
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On the real existence of a material world
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Doctrine of the nonexistence of matter considered
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The senses as much grounds of belief as other parts of our con stitution
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HABITS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 98 General view of the law of habit and of its applications
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Of habit in relation to the smell
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Of habit in relation to the taste
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Of habit in relation to the hearing
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Of certain universal habits based on sounds
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Application of habit to the touch
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Other striking instances of habits of touch
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Habits considered in relation to the sight
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Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of power
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Of habits as modified by particular callings or arts
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The law of habit considered in reference to the perception cfthe outlines and forms of objects
151
Notice of some facts which favour the above doctrine
152
MUSCULAR HABITS 111 Instances in proof of the existence of muscular habits
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Muscular habits regarded by some writers as involuntary
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Objections to the doctrine of involuntary muscular habits
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CONCEPTIONS 114 Meaning and characteristics of conceptions
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Of conceptions of objects of sight
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Of the influence of habit on our conceptions
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Of the senses sinking to sleep in succession
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SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXNESS OF MENTAL STATES 167 122 Origin of the distinction of simple and complex
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Nature and characteristics of simple mental states 124 Simple mental states not susceptible of definition 125 Simple mental states representative of a re...
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Supposed complexness without the antecedence of simple feelings
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The precise sense in which complexness is to be understood
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Illustrations of analysis as applied to the mind
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Imperfections of our complex notions of external objects
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ABSTRACTION 134 Abstraction implied in the analysis of complex ideas
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Instances of particular abstract ideas
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Mental process in separating and abstracting them
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Of generalizations of particular abstract mental states
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Of the importance and uses of abstraction CHAP XIII GENERAL ABSTRACT IDEAS
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General abstract notions the same with genera and species 140 Process in classification or the forming of genera and species 141 Early classifications ...
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Objection sometimes made to the existence of general notions
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The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers c
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Of general abstract truths or principles 147 Of the speculations of philosophers and others
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Of different opinions formerly prevailing
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Of the opinions of the Realists
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Of the opinions of the Nominalists 151 Of the opinions of the Conceptualists
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Further remarks of Brown on general abstractions
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OF ATTENTION 153 Of the general nature of attention
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Of different degrees of attention
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Dependance of memory on attention
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Of exercising attention in reading
202
Alleged inability to command the attention
203
CHAP XVDREAMING 158 Definition of dreams and the prevalence of them
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Connexion of dreams with our waking thoughts
205
Dreams are often caused by our sensations
206
Writers who have objected to the doctrine of an internal source
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ORIGINAL SUGGESTION
232
Origin of the idea of motion
238
The idea of space not of external origin
245
Of the ideas of right and wrong
251
Remarks on the memory of the aged
254
Further remarks on the proper objects of consciousness
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Of committing to writing as a means of aiding the memory
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Of the use of correlative terms
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Of the secondary law of coexistent emotion
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Of association caused by present objects of perception
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Care to be used in correctly stating the subject of discussion
299
Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject
300
Tendency of the mind to pass from the sign to the thing signified
301
Remarks on the general nature of memory
309
Of philosophic memory or that species of memory which is based
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Application of the principles of this chapter to education
337
First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina of the
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Second cause of permanently excited conceptions or apparitions Neglect of periodical bloodletting
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Methods of relief adopted in this case
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Third cause of excited conceptions Attacks of fever
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Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions In flammation of the brain Page
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Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning
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Meaning of the term and kinds of insanity
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Of disordered or alienated sensations
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Of disordered or alienated external perception
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Disordered state or insanity of original suggestion
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Unsoundness or insanity of consciousness
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Of reasoning à priori
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Disordered or alienated association Lightheadedness
351
Illustrations of this mental disorder
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Of partial insanity or alienation of the memory
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Of the power of reasoning in the partially insane
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Instance of the above form of disordered reasoning
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DEMONSTRATIVE REASONING
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Partial mental alienation by means of the imagination
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Insanity or alienation of the power of belief
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Idea of total insanity or delirium
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Of perception in cases of total or delirious insanity
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Of association in delirious insanity
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Of the influence of demonstrative reasoning on the mental char
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Of reasoning by induction
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On the sophism of estimating actions and character from the cir cumstances of success merely 304 Of adherence to our opinions 305 Effec s on the ...
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Definition of the power of imagination
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Process of the mind in the creations of the imagination
385
Further remarks on the same subject
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Illustration from the writings of Dr Reid 311 Grounds of the preference of one conception to another 312 Illustration of the subject from Milton 313 ...
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Feelings of sympathy aided by the imagination
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COMPLEX IDEAS OF INTERNAL ORIGIN 321 Of complex ideas of external origin
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Nature of complex ideas of internal origin 323 Of complex notions formed by the repetition of the same thing
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Of the help afforded by names in the combination of numbers
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Instances of complex notions made up of different simple ideas
402
Not the same internal complex ideas in all languages
404
Origin of the complex notion of a Supreme Being
406
Section DIVISION FIRST THE INTELLECT OR UNDERSTANDING INTELLECTIVE OR INTELLECTUAL STATES OF THE MIND PART THI...
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CONNEXION OF THE MIND AND BODY
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The mind constituted on the principle of a connexion with the body
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Illustration of the subject from the effects of old
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The connexion of the bodily system with the mental shown from the effects resulting from diseases
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Shown also from the effects of stimulating drugs and gases
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Influence on the body of excited imagination and passion
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This doctrine of use in explaining mental phenomena
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EXCITED CONCEPTIONS OR APPARITIONS 335 Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 336 Of the less permanent excited concepti...
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Of moral accountability in mental alienation
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Of the imputation of insanity to individuals
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Of the treatment of the insane
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Pagina 418 - Me oft has fancy ludicrous and wild Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages, expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Pagina 220 - The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without ; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing...
Pagina 396 - Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony— save general ceremony?
Pagina 220 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Pagina 277 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on.
Pagina 199 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 392 - He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
Pagina 138 - Could the youth, to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly-dis- . covered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Pagina 289 - To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the...
Pagina 289 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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