A Manual of the Physiology of Mind, Comprehending the First Principles of Physical Theology: With which are Laid Out the Crucial Objections to the Reideian Theory ...A. J. Valpy, 1829 - 244 pages |
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Page 38 - Is not the Sensory of Animals that place to which the sensitive Substance is present, and into which the sensible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate presence to that Substance?
Page 202 - I once believed this doctrine of ideas so firmly, as to embrace the whole of Berkeley's system in consequence of it ; till, finding other consequences to follow from it, which gave me more uneasiness than the want of a material world, it came into my mind, more than forty years ago, to put the question, What evidence have I for this doctrine, that all the objects of my knowledge are ideas in my own mind...
Page 204 - ... a glass of broken jelly where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case, cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may...
Page 182 - If any one of them can be shown to be an idea of sensation, or to have the least resemblance to any sensation, I lay my hand upon my mouth, and give up all pretence to reconcile reason to common sense in this matter, and must suffer the ideal scepticism to triumph.
Page 182 - This I would therefore humbly propose as an experimentum crucis, by which the ideal system must stand or fall ; and it brings the matter to a short issue : extension, figure, motion, may, any one or all of them, be taken for the subject of this experiment. Either they are ideas of sensation, or they are not.
Page 81 - H. — Much. And amongst many other things, I think he I, would not have talked of the composition of ideas ; but would have seen that it was merely a contrivance of Language : and that the only composition was in the terms; and consequently that it was as improper to speak of a complex idea, as it would be to call a constellation a complex star : And that they are not ideas, but merely terms, which are general and abstract.
Page 115 - I confess myself to have one of those dull souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas ; nor can conceive it any more necessary for the soul always to think, than for the body always to move; the perception of ideas being, as I conceive, to the soul, what motion is to the body: not its essence, but one of its operations...
Page 162 - The only important proposition which I am able to extract from this jargon is, that, as extension and duration cannot be supposed to bear the most distant resemblance to any sensations of which the mind is conscious, the origin of these notions forms a manifest exception to the account given by Locke of the primary sources of our knowledge.
Page 60 - Hindoo philosophers, to believe that the whole creation was rather an energy than a work, by which the infinite mind, who is present at all times, and in all places, exhibits to his creatures a set of perceptions like a wonderful picture, or piece of music, always varied, -yet always uniform.
Page 203 - The objects intromitted by sight would seem to him [as in truth they are] no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him as the perceptions of pain or pleasure, or the most inward passions of his soul.