 If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no 'mind stuff out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral...  The Integrative Action of the Nervous System - Page 258by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington - 1906 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 580 pages
...of the same changes as they occur is1 the emotion" (n. 449). " If we fancy some strong emotion, and try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we finding have nothing left behind" (n. 451). "What kind of an emotion of fear would be left if the feeling... | |
 | 1884 - 640 pages
...be felt, I will pass on.1 I now proceed to urge the vital point of my whole theory, which is this. If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its characteristic bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff" out of which the... | |
 | William James - 1893 - 1710 pages
...apt to be rather 'hollow.' I now proceed to urge the vital point of my whole theory, which is this: If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, ive find we have nothing left behind, no 'mind-stuff' out of which the emotion can.be constituted,... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, John Broadus Watson, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1905 - 450 pages
...actually feel afraid or angry. " I now proceed to urge the vital part of my theory, which is this: If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it the feelings of its bodily symptoms, zue find we have nothing left behind, no ' mind stuff ' out of... | |
 | Theophilus Bulkeley Hyslop - 1895 - 602 pages
...one of the bodily changes, whatsoever it be, is felt, acutely or obscurely, the moment it occurs. . . If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind. . . . for us, emotion dissociated from all bodily feeling is inconceivable. ... If such a theory is... | |
 | 1895 - 360 pages
...reverberate. Everyone of the bodily changes is felt acutely or obscurely the moment it occurs. James says : "If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it the feelings of bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left," . . . " a cold and neural state of... | |
 | Western Reserve University - 1896 - 566 pages
...James' contention, and the importance of the matter he is emphasizing when he urges the vital point that "If we fancy some strong emotion and then try to abstract...symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind stuff," out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and mental state of intellectual... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...body is really what we call the emotion. The main argument by which he supports the theory is this : " If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find that we have nothing left behind ; no mind stuff, out of which the emotion can be constituted, and... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1897 - 522 pages
...Textbook. Professor James begins by appealing to retrospection : " If we fancy some strong emotion, then try to abstract from our consciousness of it...feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing emotional left behind ... a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains."1... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1897 - 492 pages
...disturbance in various parts of the body is a ' reflective interpretation' which is excessively crude. to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing emotional left behind ... a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains."... | |
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