On Intelligence

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A&C Black, 1. jan. 1998 - 588 sider
Writing 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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If every Fact or Law has its Explanatory Reason
3
CHAPTER II
7
A general Idea is nothing but a name provided with two characters
13
CHAPTER III
23
Examples in GeometryOur Idea of a Circle is not the sensible
31
BOOK II
35
General views as to the thinking beingThe mind is a collection
70
7
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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
Our past as well as our present events appear internalThe series
363
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

Absence of the indicated circumstancesWant of attentionWant
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OF SENSATIONS OF HEARING AND THEIR ELEMENTS
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Psychology stands with reference to them as Chemistry did with
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SENSATIONS OF SIGHT OF SMELL OF TASTE OF TOUCH AND THEIR
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OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF MENTAL EVENTS
151
the knowledge of our present state for a simple and spiritual act
260
of a body is formedAnimal portion of this conceptionHuman
298
appear extended and continuousConsequently the bodies which
302
Circumstances increasing the precision and force of the imageIn
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PAGE
432
Laws concerning Possible Things
449
Two kinds of proof for the theorems of the socalled Sciences
481
CHAPTER III
487
Laws in which the intermediate is a sum of simultaneous general
498
Convergence of all the preceding conclusionsThey indicate that
525
Recapitulation of the inductive proofs which make us believe in
534
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