Analytic Psychology, Volume 1S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1896 - 314 pages |
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Abraham Tucker action actually affirmation analysis ANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY anoetic appear apprehension arises attention attention-process aversion becomes belief brain called cognition colour combination compared complex conation connected conscious process consider constitute contiguity corresponding definite degree depends desire determined direction distinct distinguished endeavour excitement existence experience external F. H. BRADLEY fact faculty psychology feeling felt fixation fixed glottis habit hedonic idea imagery immediately instances intensity interest introspection involves judgment kind logical means ment mental activity mental events mental imagery mental images mental process merely mind modes modified movement muscular nature ness objective reference occurs organic pain perception person physical physiological pleasure pleasure-pain preformed present principle of repetition psychical dispositions psycho-physical psychology psychosis regarded relation result revival seems sensation sense sensory sentience Shadworth Hodgson takes place tendency tends thing tion train of thought vaso-motor visual magnitude vital series volition whole words
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Page 84 - And a little attention will discover, that it is not necessary, even in the strictest reasonings, significant names which stand for ideas should, every time they are used, excite in the understanding the ideas they are made to stand for : in reading and discoursing, names being, for the most part, used as letters are in algebra, in which, though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed right it is not requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your thoughts that particular...
Page 258 - Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it; but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted; when yet, at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principal of action, will strengthen...
Page 102 - ... the insertion of accidental circumstances, in order to the full explanation of his living characters, their dispositions and actions; which circumstances might be necessary to establish the probability of a statement in real life, where nothing is taken for granted by the hearer; but appear superfluous in poetry, where the reader is willing to believe for his own sake.
Page 78 - ... interesting things or events ; and being applied in such a variety of cases that we know readily by habit to what things they belong, they produce in the mind, whenever they are afterwards mentioned, effects similar to those of their occasions.
Page 258 - ... mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together; that practical habits are formed and strengthened by repeated acts, and that passive impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us; it must follow, that active habits may be gradually forming and strengthening, by a course of acting upon such and such motives and excitements, whilst...
Page ii - Political Philosophy, Theology. While much had been done in England in tracing the course of evolution in nature, history, economics, morals and religion, little had been done in tracing the development of thought on these subjects. Yet the "evolution of opinion is part of the whole evolution".
Page 157 - First of all, I am aware of a constant play of furtherances and hindrances in my thinking, of checks and releases, tendencies which run with desire, and tendencies which run the other way.
Page 83 - ... themselves, and to that end having invented language, have by that means transferred all that discursion of their mind mentioned in the former chapter, by the motion of their tongues, into discourse of words: and ratio now is but oratio, for the most part, wherein custom hath so great a power, that the mind suggesteth only the first word; the rest follow habitually, and are not followed by the mind...
Page 158 - When I try to remember or reflect, the movements in question, instead of being directed towards the periphery, seem to come from the periphery inwards and feel like a sort of withdrawal from the outer world. As far as I can detect, these feelings are due to an actual rolling outwards and upwards of the eyeballs...
Page 41 - I touch the table gently with my hand, and I feel it to be smooth, hard, and cold. These are qualities of the table perceived by touch ; but I perceive them by means of a sensation which indicates them.