On IntelligenceWriting from a rigorously deterministic and positivistic stance and drawing on evidence from psychopathology and neural physiology, Taine mounted an influential attack on the tendency toward reification inherent in faculty psychology. For Taine, terms such as 'self', 'memory', and 'season' stood not for entities but simply for successions of mental events. |
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PART THE FIRST | 1 |
If every Fact or Law has its Explanatory Reason | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 7 |
A general Idea is nothing but a dame provided with two characters | 13 |
Passage from abstract to collective namesThe name which denoted | 20 |
SENSATIONS OF SIGHT OF SMELL OF TASTE OF TOUCH AND THEIR | 23 |
Examples in GeometryOur Idea of a Circle is not the sensible | 26 |
BOOK II | 35 |
Part played by the image which is substituted for sensationIt | 245 |
the knowledge of our present state for a simple and spiritual act | 260 |
of a body is formedAnimal portion of this conceptionHuman | 298 |
and without us 345 | 302 |
Circumstances increasing the precision and force of the imageIn | 322 |
and retinal sensations of the eye is the substitute of a very long series | 336 |
How far this hallucination is true in the normal stateOur illusion | 350 |
BOOK III | 356 |
General views as to the thinking beingThe mind is a collection | 70 |
Special circumstances calling up at a particular moment one image | 82 |
General views as to the history of images and ideasThey are | 90 |
OF SENSATIONS OF HEARING AND THEIR ELEMENTS | 99 |
Total sensations of sightThe spectrumInfinite number of total | 117 |
The external physical event is an accessory and distant condition | 152 |
Construction of the various sensations of spectral colour by the com | 187 |
Another series of reasonsThe aspect of the sensation and that | 193 |
THE HUMAN PERSON AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUAL | 201 |
Progressive ruin of scholastic entitiesScientific idea of forces | 209 |
Psychology stands with reference to them as Chemistry did with | 217 |
ExamplesIllusion produced at the theatreOptical illusions | 239 |
mindsAnalogy of other living bodies and our ownThis analogy | 383 |
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL THINGS | 391 |
To these general extracts general and abstract ideas correspond | 403 |
CHAPTER II | 425 |
PAGZ | 432 |
Laws concerning Possible Things | 449 |
Two kinds of proof for the theorems of the socalled Sciences | 481 |
CHAPTER III | 487 |
Of explanation and demonstrationThe first datum contains the | 498 |
Convergence of all the preceding copclusions They indicate that | 525 |
Recapitulation of the inductive proofs which make us believe in | 534 |
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