 But when we know about it, we do more than merely have it ; we seem, as we think over its relations, to subject it to a sort of treatment and to operate upon it with our thought The words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis.  Mind - Page 5021898Full view - About this book
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...think over its relations, to subject it to a sort of treatment and to operate upon it with our thought. The words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis....things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree. The minimum... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1890 - 712 pages
...think over its relations, to subject it to a sort of treatment and to operate upon it with our thought The words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis....things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree. The minimum... | |
 | George R. Montgomery - Knowledge, Theory of - 1903 - 76 pages
...— even a relation between feelings is not itself a feeling or a felt." (Green in Mind OS 7-28.) " Through feelings we become acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them." (James Psy. 1-222.) The analysis we have made accounts for a phenomenon which so far as I know... | |
 | Henri Reverdin - Experience - 1913 - 256 pages
...les mêmes mots feeling et thought qui désignent ces deux connaissances; je cite textuellement: « Through feelings we become acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are thé germ and starting point of cognition; thoughts thé developed tree. » Principles,... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - Philosophy - 1982 - 388 pages
...think over its relations, to subject it to a sort of treatment and to operate upon it with our thought. The words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis....things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree. The minimum... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 584 pages
...speaking, 'the words feelings and thought give voice to the antithesis. Through ' Ibid., pp. 89-90. feelings we become acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them.'' Stein's characterisation of her work 'Melanctha' (1905-6) in her 1926 lecture, 'Composition... | |
 | P. Naur - Philosophy - 1995 - 388 pages
...upon it with our thought. The words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis. Through feeling we become acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree. The minimum... | |
 | Roy A. Rappaport - Social Science - 1999 - 566 pages
...not logical, is not verbal and is analogic or continuous in nature. "Through feelings [experience] we become acquainted with things but only by our thoughts do we know about them" (1890: I: 222). Personal religion is, then, logically prior to institutionalized religion because... | |
 | Steven Meyer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 486 pages
...scientific forms. James, in distinguishing knowledge of acquaintance and knowledgeabout, suggested that "the words feeling and thought give voice to the antithesis....acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know them." All "elementary natures," he added, as well as "the kinds of relation that subsist between them,"... | |
 | Louis Roy - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 252 pages
...acquaintance and knowledge-about, he asserts that feelings (in the narrow sense) come before thoughts: 'Through feelings we become acquainted with things, but only by our thoughts do we know about them. Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree ... The mental... | |
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