 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1802 - 632 pages
...correct for common converfation. But in an analyfis of the mind, there is ground for a diftinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features of his friend an object of thought, fo as to copy the refemblance ; the power of memory recognifes thefe features as a former object of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the mind, there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features of his friend an object of thought, so as to copj the resemblance, the power of memory recognises these features as a former object of perception.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the mind, there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features...so as to copy the resemblance ; the power of memory recognizes these features as a former object of perception. Every act of memory includes an idea of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the mind, there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features...recognises these features as a former object of perception. Every act of memory includes an idea of the past ; conception inrplies no idea of time whatever.* According... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the mind there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception, enables him to make the features...recognises these features as a former object of perception. Every act 3 z of memory includes an idea of the past; conception implies no idea of time whatever."... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1822 - 312 pages
...other powers, with some of which it is often confounded. The power of conception enables the painter to make the features of his friend an object of thought,...so as to copy the resemblance ; the power of memory recognizes these features as a former object of perception. Thus, conception is distinguished from... | |
 | George Payne - 1828 - 574 pages
...correct for common conversation. But, in an analysis of the mind, there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features...so as to copy the resemblance ; the power of memory recognizes these features as a former object of perception."* Another writer, who adopts the same general... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the mind, there is ground for a distinction. The power of conception enables him to make the features...recognises these features as a former object of perception. Every act of memory includes an idea of the past ; conception implies no idea of time whatever.* According... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1835 - 312 pages
...other powers, with some of which it is often confounded. The power of conception enables the painter to make the features of his friend an object of thought,...so as to copy the resemblance ; the power of memory recognizes these features as a former object of perception. Thus, conception it distinguished from... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1837 - 312 pages
...other powers, with some of which it is often confounded. The power of conception enables the painter to make the features of his friend an object of thought,...so as to copy the resemblance ; the power of memory recognizes these features as a former object of perception. Thus, conception is distinguished from... | |
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Conception is often confounded with other powers. When a painter makes a picture of a friend, who is absent or dead, he is commonly said to paint from memory : and the expression is sufficiently correct for common conversation. But in an analysis of the... 
