The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 51
... probably due to the fact that several nerve - terminations are excited in each case : where the sensation is one of smoothness all are stimulated equally ; where it is one of roughness the ridges compress the nerve - ends more , and the ...
... probably due to the fact that several nerve - terminations are excited in each case : where the sensation is one of smoothness all are stimulated equally ; where it is one of roughness the ridges compress the nerve - ends more , and the ...
Page 52
... probably played the chief part at the outset - subjective selection becoming more prominent as the process advanced - must have been necessary to secure as much purposive movement as even a lobster displays . It seems impossible to ...
... probably played the chief part at the outset - subjective selection becoming more prominent as the process advanced - must have been necessary to secure as much purposive movement as even a lobster displays . It seems impossible to ...
Page 58
... probably not a rise and fall in the intensity of a single representa- tion , but a change in the complex represented . In the primary presentation there has been a change of quality along with change of intensity , and not only so , but ...
... probably not a rise and fall in the intensity of a single representa- tion , but a change in the complex represented . In the primary presentation there has been a change of quality along with change of intensity , and not only so , but ...
Page 60
... probably ceased . On the whole , then , it appears that the ordinary memory- image is a joint effect ; it is not the mere residuum of changes in the presentation - continuum , but an effect of these only when there has been some ...
... probably ceased . On the whole , then , it appears that the ordinary memory- image is a joint effect ; it is not the mere residuum of changes in the presentation - continuum , but an effect of these only when there has been some ...
Page 65
... probably follows , as we have supposed , some trace set this fact in a more striking light , and made clear what of that movement of attention of which we are aware in Locke had dimly before his mind in talking of a certain In passing ...
... probably follows , as we have supposed , some trace set this fact in a more striking light , and made clear what of that movement of attention of which we are aware in Locke had dimly before his mind in talking of a certain In passing ...
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