The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1886 - Psychology |
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accompanying activity adjustment afferent nerves aggregate allotropic animals arise become blood body cause centripetal cerebellum cerebrum chapter clusters co-ordination colour combination complex compound connected connexions consciousness constituting contraction correspondence creatures degree distinguished disturbance effect efferent elements emotions environment evolution excited exist experiences external fact fibres functions further ganglia ganglion grey matter groups Hence higher implies impressions increase inferred inner isomeric kind less Mammals manifest matter medulla oblongata mental Mind molecular change molecular motion molecules motor muscles muscular nerve-cells nerve-centre nerve-fibres nervous action nervous centres nervous changes nervous discharge nervous structure nervous system objects organism pains pass perception peripheral phenomena plexuses present produced psychical changes Psychology quantity reflex action rela relations of Co-existence relative retina revivability riences sciousness sensations sequences similarly simultaneous space spinal cord stimuli substance successive supposed tactual things tion tissue truth unlike vesicles viscera visual wave of molecular
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Page 295 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
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Page 161 - Hence, though of the two it seems easier to translate so-called Matter into so-called Spirit, than to translate so-called Spirit into so-called Matter (which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible), yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols.
Page 132 - For that which distinguishes Psychology from the sciences on which it rests, is, that each of its propositions takes account both of the connected internal phenomena and of the connected external phenomena to which they refer. In a physiological proposition an inner relation is the essential subject of thought ; but in a psychological proposition an outer relation is joined with it as a co-essential subject of thought. A relation In the environment rises into co-ordinate importance with a relation...
Page 469 - Being the constant and infinitely repeated elements of thought, they must become the automatic elements of thought — the elements of thought which it is impossible to get rid of — the 'forms of intuition.
Page 293 - If the doctrine of Evolution is true, the inevitable implication is that Mind can be understood only by observing how Mind is evolved. If creatures of the most elevated kinds have reached those highly integrated, very definite, and extremely heterogeneous organizations they possess, through modifications upon modifications accumulated during an immeasurable past — if the developed nervous * This Chapter...