Habit and Intelligence in Their Connexion with the Laws of Matter and Force: A Series of Scientific Essays, 2. köideMacmillan and Company, 1869 |
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... ideas - Impressions on consciousness are either sensory or ideal - Law of association stated - Instance of a man's face and his voice - Groups of sensations - Association by contiguity and by resemblance , both cases of the same ...
... ideas - Impressions on consciousness are either sensory or ideal - Law of association stated - Instance of a man's face and his voice - Groups of sensations - Association by contiguity and by resemblance , both cases of the same ...
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... ideas -Thought begins from experience - Element of intelligence in all thought which is not a result of experience - Association will account for conceptions , but not for beliefs - Belief in the constancy of the order of things - How ...
... ideas -Thought begins from experience - Element of intelligence in all thought which is not a result of experience - Association will account for conceptions , but not for beliefs - Belief in the constancy of the order of things - How ...
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... idea of substance - Axioms of metaphysics- Beliefs not the results of thought , but implied in thought - Belief in the veracity of memory is an ultimate fact , and belongs to intelligence - Resem- blance of my theory to idealism , and ...
... idea of substance - Axioms of metaphysics- Beliefs not the results of thought , but implied in thought - Belief in the veracity of memory is an ultimate fact , and belongs to intelligence - Resem- blance of my theory to idealism , and ...
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... idea of an intelligence which works in any degree like that of man . If some insects have a vestige of conscious intelligence , its seat must be in the sensory ganglia . This would in- volve no great anomaly , for motor , sensory , and ...
... idea of an intelligence which works in any degree like that of man . If some insects have a vestige of conscious intelligence , its seat must be in the sensory ganglia . This would in- volve no great anomaly , for motor , sensory , and ...
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... ideas ; of which I shall have to speak in a future chapter . In many cases , remembered consciousness acts on the ... idea , of a sensation . In order , so far as it is possible , to complete the physio- logical theory of the mind which ...
... ideas ; of which I shall have to speak in a future chapter . In many cases , remembered consciousness acts on the ... idea , of a sensation . In order , so far as it is possible , to complete the physio- logical theory of the mind which ...
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