The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges. Abridged from "The Human Intellect".C. Scribner, 1871 - 565 pages |
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acquired perceptions act of knowledge action activity agent analysis applied apprehended Aristotle attention attributes believe body called capacity causation cause cerning color complete conceived concept connected consciousness defined Descartes discerned distinct distinguished doctrine Dugald Stewart effect elements energy enthymeme excited existence experience explain extension external fact faculties feeling force functions furnished Herbart Herbert Spencer human ideas imagination implied individual induction intellect intuition intuitive knowledge involve J. S. Mill James Mill judgment known language laws logical Malebranche material objects matter means memory mental metaphysics mind mind's nature nerves nominalist non-ego notion observe organs original perceived phenomena philosophical present principle processes psychical psychology reality reason recall relations representative retina scientific sense sense-perception sensorium separate single somnambulism soul space spirit subjective substance syllogism taste theory things Thomas Brown thought tion touch true truth vision whole words
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Page 349 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Page 349 - Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort.
Page 269 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor— thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 349 - Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middle-sized man.
Page 342 - Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell : for myself I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them.
Page 63 - ... affecting our senses. 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.
Page 206 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 23 - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
Page 263 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Page 385 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...