Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... able to substantiate the assertions of known observers by those of other observers as well or better known . So much , then , for the principles by which I have been guided in the selection of facts . As to the arrange- ment of the ...
... able to substantiate the assertions of known observers by those of other observers as well or better known . So much , then , for the principles by which I have been guided in the selection of facts . As to the arrange- ment of the ...
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... able to learn by its own individual experi- ence . Wherever we find an animal able to do this , we have the same right to predicate mind as existing in such an animal that we have to predicate it as existing in any human being other ...
... able to learn by its own individual experi- ence . Wherever we find an animal able to do this , we have the same right to predicate mind as existing in such an animal that we have to predicate it as existing in any human being other ...
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... we get down as low as the insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best avail able pattern of the probable facts of insect psychology . INTRODUCTION , 9.
... we get down as low as the insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best avail able pattern of the probable facts of insect psychology . INTRODUCTION , 9.
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George John Romanes. able pattern of the probable facts of insect psychology . Just as the theologians tell us -- and logically enough- that if there is a Divine Mind , the best , and indeed only , conception we can form of it is that ...
George John Romanes. able pattern of the probable facts of insect psychology . Just as the theologians tell us -- and logically enough- that if there is a Divine Mind , the best , and indeed only , conception we can form of it is that ...
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... able to affirm whether con- sciousness of their performance is present or absent ; but , as I have already said , this does not affect the validity of our definition ; all we can say of such cases is that if the performance in question ...
... able to affirm whether con- sciousness of their performance is present or absent ; but , as I have already said , this does not affect the validity of our definition ; all we can say of such cases is that if the performance in question ...
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Page 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to misinterpret.
Page 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.
Page i - ANIMAL LIFE AS AFFECTED BY THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
Page 359 - ... knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him ; kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick) and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...
Page 11 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from any laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.