The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... term feeling itself . If by feeling we mean a certain subjective state varying continuously in intensity and passing from time to time from its positive phase ( pleasure ) to its negative phase ( pain ) , then this purely pathic state ...
... term feeling itself . If by feeling we mean a certain subjective state varying continuously in intensity and passing from time to time from its positive phase ( pleasure ) to its negative phase ( pain ) , then this purely pathic state ...
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A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature. action , including under this term what are called sensori- motor and ideo - motor actions . In all these the movement seems to be the result of a mere transference of intensity from ...
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature. action , including under this term what are called sensori- motor and ideo - motor actions . In all these the movement seems to be the result of a mere transference of intensity from ...
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... term " consciousness " confuse what tion - con- exactness requires us to keep distinct , an activity and its tinuum . object , but also the term " change " fails to express the characteristics which distinguish presentations from other ...
... term " consciousness " confuse what tion - con- exactness requires us to keep distinct , an activity and its tinuum . object , but also the term " change " fails to express the characteristics which distinguish presentations from other ...
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... term . But it will be well in the next place , before inquiring more closely into their characteristics , to consider for a moment that persistence of preceding modi- fications which the differentiation of the presentation- Brigh d ...
... term . But it will be well in the next place , before inquiring more closely into their characteristics , to consider for a moment that persistence of preceding modi- fications which the differentiation of the presentation- Brigh d ...
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... term Law of Relativity . 1. Hobbes's Idem semper sentire et non sentire ad idem recidunt is often cited as one of the first formulations of this law ; and if we take it to apply to the whole field of con- sciousness it becomes at once ...
... term Law of Relativity . 1. Hobbes's Idem semper sentire et non sentire ad idem recidunt is often cited as one of the first formulations of this law ; and if we take it to apply to the whole field of con- sciousness it becomes at once ...
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