The Principles of Psychology, Zväzok 2H. Holt, 1890 |
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action æsthetic after-image animal appear asso association attention awaken become believe blind body brain called centres chapter color conceive consciousness contraction direction discharge discrimination distance Edmund Gurney effects emotion empiristic excited existence experience fact feeling felt field of view finger fovea give habit hallucinations hand Helmholtz hypnotic idea illusion imagination immediately impressions impulse inhibition innervation instinct J. S. Mill latter look ment mental mind motion motor motor cell move movement muscles muscular nature never object optical organs outer pain patient peculiar perceive perception persons phenomena physiological pleasure position psychic Psychology reality reason reflex action relations result retinal image seems seen sensation sense sensible sight simple simultaneous contrast skin sort space spatial STANFORD UNIVERSITY suggestion supposed surface teleological theory things thought tion touch trance visual visual perception whilst whole words
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Strana 210 - It is, I think, agreed by all, that distance of itself, and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter.
Strana 634 - I have neither counted the houses nor inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for us to inquire into it. "O my soul! O my lamb! seek not after the things which concern thee...
Strana 444 - Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry, and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike.
Strana 379 - Instinct is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance.
Strana 49 - If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no.
Strana 427 - Yet although the ox has so little affection for, or individual interest in, his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits every sign of mental agony ; he strives with all his might to get back again, and when he succeeds, he plunges into its middle to bathe his whole body with the comfort of closest companionship.
Strana 208 - Whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube ?" To which the acute and judicious proposer answers :
Strana 657 - ... out of the mind, and existed before: but because being once made about abstract ideas, so as to be true, they will, whenever they can be supposed to be made again at any time past or to come, by a mind having those ideas, always actually be true.
Strana 657 - The mathematician considers the truth and properties belonging to a rectangle or circle, only as they are in idea in his own mind. For it is possible he never found either of them existing mathematically, ie, precisely true, in his life.
Strana 537 - If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.