There is no manifold of coexisting ideas ; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single pulse of subjectivity, a single psychosis, feeling, or state of mind. Mind - Page 4961898Full view - About this book
| William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...it for this particular reason — namely, because the manifold of ideas has to be reduced to unity. There is no manifold of coexisting ideas ; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| William James - Psychology - 1890 - 718 pages
...it for this particular reason — namely, because the manifold of ideas has to be reduced to unity. There is no manifold of coexisting ideas ; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| William James - Psychology - 1890 - 712 pages
...this particular reason — namely, because the manifold of ideas has to be reduced to unity. There ia no manifold of coexisting ideas ; the notion of such a thing is s chimera. 'Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| Edgar Arthur Singer - Behaviorism (Psychology). - 1924 - 328 pages
...starting point of all mental construction be immediately given, perfectly simple. Thus we find him saying "there is no manifold of coexisting ideas; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| James T. Kloppenberg - Political Science - 1988 - 557 pages
...continuous," rather than as a "bundle of separate ideas." As he insisted in The Principles of Psychology, "There is no manifold of coexisting ideas', the notion of such a thing is a chimera." Although James's philosophy of radical empiricism differed in important respects from Green's... | |
| P. Naur - Philosophy - 1995 - 388 pages
...complex the object may be, the thought of it is one undivided state of consciousness. ... [1 276-278] ...There is no manifold of coexisting ideas; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| Mark Sacks - Philosophy - 2000 - 358 pages
...it for this particular reason — namely, because the manifold of ideas has to be reduced to unity. There is no manifold of coexisting ideas; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the outset in a unity, in a single... | |
| Gilbert I. Bond - Creoles - 2005 - 194 pages
...could not be subdivided into distinguishable parts, subject-object, in the actual event of perception. "There is no manifold of coexisting ideas; the notion of such a thing is a chimera. Whatever things are thought in relation are thought from the onset in a unity, in a single... | |
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