Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... sense . The power or faculty from which perception pro- ceeds , is termed an external sense . This distinction refers to the objects of or knowledge ; for the senses , whether external or in- ternal , are all of them powers or faculties ...
... sense . The power or faculty from which perception pro- ceeds , is termed an external sense . This distinction refers to the objects of or knowledge ; for the senses , whether external or in- ternal , are all of them powers or faculties ...
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... sense is a general term for every external thing we perceive ; and sensation a general term for every pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense . 1. Conception is different from perception . The latter includes . a conviction of the ...
... sense is a general term for every external thing we perceive ; and sensation a general term for every pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense . 1. Conception is different from perception . The latter includes . a conviction of the ...
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... sense , to signify what we feel or are conscious of : and in that sense it is a general term for all our passions and emotions , and for all our other pleasures and pains . 13. That we cannot perceive an external object till an impres ...
... sense , to signify what we feel or are conscious of : and in that sense it is a general term for all our passions and emotions , and for all our other pleasures and pains . 13. That we cannot perceive an external object till an impres ...
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... sense , is always simple . The color , figure , umbrage of a spreading oak , raise not different perceptions : the perception is one , that of a tree , colored , figured , & c . A quality is never perceived separately from the subject ...
... sense , is always simple . The color , figure , umbrage of a spreading oak , raise not different perceptions : the perception is one , that of a tree , colored , figured , & c . A quality is never perceived separately from the subject ...
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... senses too faint and obscure for language . An idea thus acquired of an object at second - hand , ought to be distinguished from an idea of memory , though their resemblance has occasioned the same term idea to be applied to both ...
... senses too faint and obscure for language . An idea thus acquired of an object at second - hand , ought to be distinguished from an idea of memory , though their resemblance has occasioned the same term idea to be applied to both ...
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