On IntelligenceWriting from a rigorously deterministic and positivistic stance and drawing on evidence from psychopathology and neural physiology, Taine mounted an influential attack on the tendency toward reification inherent in faculty psychology. For Taine, terms such as 'self', 'memory', and 'season' stood not for entities but simply for successions of mental events. |
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Contents
If every Fact or Law has its Explanatory Reason | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 7 |
A general Idea is nothing but a name provided with two characters | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 23 |
Examples in GeometryOur Idea of a Circle is not the sensible | 31 |
BOOK II | 35 |
General views as to the thinking beingThe mind is a collection | 70 |
7 | 77 |
Circumstances increasing the precision and force of the imageIn | 322 |
Differences of the two AtlasesSpontaneous formation of the tactile | 323 |
First notion of visible extensionA very short series of muscular | 336 |
How far this hallucination is true in the normal stateOur illusion | 350 |
BOOK III | 356 |
Our past as well as our present events appear internalThe series | 363 |
mindsAnalogy of other living bodies and our ownThis analogy | 383 |
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL THINGS | 391 |
Special circumstances calling up at a particular moment one image | 82 |
General views as to the history of images and ideasThey are | 90 |
OF SENSATIONS | 99 |
Psychology stands with reference to them as Chemistry did with | 106 |
SENSATIONS OF SIGHT OF SMELL OF TASTE OF TOUCH AND THEIR | 117 |
OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF MENTAL EVENTS | 151 |
THE HUMAN PERSON AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUAL | 201 |
Progressive ruin of scholastic entitiesScientific idea of forces | 209 |
OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE | 217 |
Part played by the image which is substituted for sensationIt | 245 |
the knowledge of our present state for a simple and spiritual act | 260 |
of a body is formedAnimal portion of this conceptionHuman | 298 |
appear extended and continuousConsequently the bodies which | 302 |
To these general extracts general and abstract ideas correspond | 403 |
CHAPTER II | 425 |
PAGE | 432 |
Laws concerning Possible Things | 449 |
Principal geometrical axiomsAxioms concerning the straight line | 463 |
Underlying mental process which accompanies the experience of | 477 |
Two kinds of proof for the theorems of the socalled Sciences | 481 |
CHAPTER III | 487 |
Laws in which the intermediate is a sum of simultaneous general | 498 |
Convergence of all the preceding conclusionsThey indicate that | 525 |
Recapitulation of the inductive proofs which make us believe in | 534 |
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| Title | On Intelligence Classics in Psychology Series Volume 8 of Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914 Volume 8 of History of Psychology Series |
| Author | Hippolyte Taine |
| Editor | Robert H. Wozniak |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 1998 |
| ISBN | 1855066602, 9781855066601 |
| Length | 588 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / General |
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