The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 44
... sensations and movements , we have : — A SUBJECT ( 1 ) non - voluntarily at- tending to changes in the sensory - con- tinuum1 ; [ Cognition ] ( 2 ) being , in conse- quence , either pleased or pained ; [ Feeling ] " " and ( 3 ) by ...
... sensations and movements , we have : — A SUBJECT ( 1 ) non - voluntarily at- tending to changes in the sensory - con- tinuum1 ; [ Cognition ] ( 2 ) being , in conse- quence , either pleased or pained ; [ Feeling ] " " and ( 3 ) by ...
Page 45
... sensations , which , com- ing out of nothingness , admit of being strung upon the " thread of consciousness " like beads picked up at random , or cemented into a mass like the bits of stick and sand with which the young caddis covers ...
... sensations , which , com- ing out of nothingness , admit of being strung upon the " thread of consciousness " like beads picked up at random , or cemented into a mass like the bits of stick and sand with which the young caddis covers ...
Page 46
... sensations to the sensations of the five senses , from movements expressive of feeling to movements de- finitely purposive , and from the tumult of ideas excited by passion to the steadier sequences determined by efforts to think ...
... sensations to the sensations of the five senses , from movements expressive of feeling to movements de- finitely purposive , and from the tumult of ideas excited by passion to the steadier sequences determined by efforts to think ...
Page 47
... sensation of , say , red or sweet , there was in the primitive consciousness nothing but a vague modification , which persisted ; and that on a repetition of the circum- stances this persisting modification was again further modified ...
... sensation of , say , red or sweet , there was in the primitive consciousness nothing but a vague modification , which persisted ; and that on a repetition of the circum- stances this persisting modification was again further modified ...
Page 49
... sensations are implicit here ? Shall we say yellow as the greatest contrast to blue , or darkness as the contrary of light , or both ? What , again , is the implicit consciousness when the explicit is sweet ; is it Litter or sour , and ...
... sensations are implicit here ? Shall we say yellow as the greatest contrast to blue , or darkness as the contrary of light , or both ? What , again , is the implicit consciousness when the explicit is sweet ; is it Litter or sour , and ...
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