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... attention . This ob- servation , being supposed , the results must depend upon the capacity and reach of the intelligence . What is to be known must depend upon the faculty of knowledge . II . Now it is a fact indisputable that the ...
... attention . This ob- servation , being supposed , the results must depend upon the capacity and reach of the intelligence . What is to be known must depend upon the faculty of knowledge . II . Now it is a fact indisputable that the ...
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... attention ; but still without any great effort we are continually withdrawing our attention from one sensation to ano- ther ; and when engaged in deep thought , we with- draw attention from sensation altogether . During the last half ...
... attention ; but still without any great effort we are continually withdrawing our attention from one sensation to ano- ther ; and when engaged in deep thought , we with- draw attention from sensation altogether . During the last half ...
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... attention must be the power which really creates the sensation . It is quite immaterial to my purpose which view is taken , since it clearly appears that without the act of attention , or self - appropriation , there is no perception ...
... attention must be the power which really creates the sensation . It is quite immaterial to my purpose which view is taken , since it clearly appears that without the act of attention , or self - appropriation , there is no perception ...
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... attention ? Recollect , our appeal is to consciousness . The cha- racteristics of the act must be recognized by each man for himself ; but as I believe humanity to be one , and mind to be one , I doubt not but the facts which I ...
... attention ? Recollect , our appeal is to consciousness . The cha- racteristics of the act must be recognized by each man for himself ; but as I believe humanity to be one , and mind to be one , I doubt not but the facts which I ...
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... attention in any particular direction , I am clearly conscious that I can withhold it from this direction , and give it in an opposite direction . The act seems entirely my own act , my own doing and creation : there is no compulsion ...
... attention in any particular direction , I am clearly conscious that I can withhold it from this direction , and give it in an opposite direction . The act seems entirely my own act , my own doing and creation : there is no compulsion ...
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Page 206 - Paul enjoin any thing more contrary to nature than the excision of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye...
Page 154 - The will, and the affections of the soul, are not two faculties; the affections are not essentially distinct from the will, nor do they differ from the mere actings of the will, and inclination of the soul, but only in the liveliness and sensibleness of exercise.
Page 209 - To give some instances of this moral Inability. ...A woman of great honor and chastity may have a moral Inability to prostitute herself to her slave. A child of great love and duty to his parents, may be unable to be willing to kill his father. A very lascivious man, in case of certain opportunities and temptations, and in the absence of such and such restraints, may be unable to forbear gratifying his lust. A...
Page 238 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts I without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Page 73 - I will endeavour to explain. Volition, or the primary nisus, is the first action, or the first going forth of cause to effect : choice, as used in contradistinction to volition, precedes the primary nisus, and is equivalent to predetermination or intention.
Page 261 - ... pulls a trigger, or seals a despatch ? It is obvious that throughout all his operations, in marches and encampments, and sieges and battles, he calculates as fully on the volitions of his men as on the strength of his fortifications or the powers of his batteries.
Page 1 - ... has of its own operations. In knowing, it knows that it knows. In experiencing emotions and passions, it knows that it experiences them. In willing, or exercising acts of causality, it knows that it wills or exercises such acts. This is the common, universal, and spontaneous consciousness." . . . " By consciousness more nicely and accurately defined, we mean the power and act of self-recognition : not if you please, the mind knowing its knowledges, emotions, and volitions ; but the mind knowing...
Page 73 - The choice precedes the actual volition, or nisus, by which I take the fruit; it is the determination what to do when the moment of action shall have come." * * * " I may form a purpose or determination, or in other words make a choice, years before the time for exerting the nisus which is to accomplish it.
Page 82 - Let the person come by his volition or choice how he will, yet, if he is able, and there is nothing in the way to hinder his pursuing and executing his will, the man is fully and perfectly free, according to the primary and common notion of freedom.
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The Analysis of Motives: Early American Psychology and Fiction Allan Gardner Smith,Allan Lloyd Smith No preview available - 1980 |