Great Books of the Western World, 51. köideRobert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... present thing . A simple sensation , as we shall hereafter see , is an abstraction , and all our con- crete states of mind are representations of objects with some amount of com- plexity . Part of the complexity is the echo of the ...
... present thing . A simple sensation , as we shall hereafter see , is an abstraction , and all our con- crete states of mind are representations of objects with some amount of com- plexity . Part of the complexity is the echo of the ...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins. The Sensible Present Has Duration Let any one try , I will not say to arrest , but to notice or attend to , the present moment of time . One of the most baffling experiences occurs . Where is it , this present ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins. The Sensible Present Has Duration Let any one try , I will not say to arrest , but to notice or attend to , the present moment of time . One of the most baffling experiences occurs . Where is it , this present ...
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... present , is an entirely different psychic fact from its direct perception in the specious present as a thing immediately past . A creature might be entirely devoid of reproductive memory , and yet have the time - sense ; but the latter ...
... present , is an entirely different psychic fact from its direct perception in the specious present as a thing immediately past . A creature might be entirely devoid of reproductive memory , and yet have the time - sense ; but the latter ...
Contents
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN | 8 |
Reflex semireflex and voluntary acts The Frogs nervecentres General | 17 |
ON SOME GENERAL CONDITIONS OF BRAINACTIVITY | 53 |
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