Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... mind ; passion , for example , thinking , volition : some external ; such as every object of sight , of hearing , of smell , of touch , of taste . 2. That act of the mind which makes known to me an external object , is termed perception ...
... mind ; passion , for example , thinking , volition : some external ; such as every object of sight , of hearing , of smell , of touch , of taste . 2. That act of the mind which makes known to me an external object , is termed perception ...
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... mind . How is this operation performed ? Do I endeavor to form in my mind a picture of them , or a representative mage ? Not so . I transport myself ideally to the place where I saw the tree and river yesterday : upon which I have a ...
... mind . How is this operation performed ? Do I endeavor to form in my mind a picture of them , or a representative mage ? Not so . I transport myself ideally to the place where I saw the tree and river yesterday : upon which I have a ...
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... mind some form , phantasm , or species ; that things sensible are perceived and remem- bered by means of sensible phantasms , and things intelligible by intelligible phantasms ; and that these phantasms have the form of the object ...
... mind some form , phantasm , or species ; that things sensible are perceived and remem- bered by means of sensible phantasms , and things intelligible by intelligible phantasms ; and that these phantasms have the form of the object ...
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... mind , but no distant subject can act upon the mind , because no being can act but where it is : and , there fore , the immediate object of perception must be something united to the mind so as to be able to act upon it . " Here the ...
... mind , but no distant subject can act upon the mind , because no being can act but where it is : and , there fore , the immediate object of perception must be something united to the mind so as to be able to act upon it . " Here the ...
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... mind an idea of the second kind ; and again , that an idea of this kind , being afterwards recalled to the mind , beca nes in that circumstance an idea of memory . 21. We are not so constituted as to perceive objects with indif- ference ...
... mind an idea of the second kind ; and again , that an idea of this kind , being afterwards recalled to the mind , beca nes in that circumstance an idea of memory . 21. We are not so constituted as to perceive objects with indif- ference ...
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