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" It is the essence of the act of observing ; for the observer is not he who merely sees the thing which is before his eyes, but he who sees what parts that thing is composed of. To do this well is a rare talent. One person, from inattention, or attending... "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 170
1885
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Journal

Chartered Insurance Institute - 1908 - 486 pages
...; not a question of doing more, but of doing better." " One man," says Mill, " from inattention or attending only in the wrong place, overlooks half...he sees, confounding it with what he imagines, or what he infers; another takes note of the kind of all the circumstances, but being inexpert in estimating...
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The Problem of Logic

William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 520 pages
...Purposive observation must be appropriately and adequately analytic. ' The observer,' says Mill, ' is not he who merely sees the thing which is before...but he who sees what parts that thing is composed of.'f So Lord A vebury reminds us that we have not really seen a mountain until we have seen through...
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The Problem of Logic

William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 524 pages
...Purposive observation must be appropriately and adequately analytic. ' The observer,' says Mill, ' is not he who merely sees the thing which is before...but he who sees what parts that thing is composed of.'f So Lord Avebury reminds us that we have not really seen a mountain until we have seen through...
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The Problem of Logic

William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 520 pages
...Purposive observation must be appropriately and adequately analytic. ' The observer,' says Mill, ' is not he who merely sees the thing which is before his eyes, but he who sees what parts that tiling is composed of.'f So Lord Avebury reminds us that we have not really seen a mountain until we...
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The Art of the Orator

Sir Edgar Rees Jones - 1912 - 204 pages
...intellect differs immensely from another. It is the essence of the act of observing, for the observer is not he who merely sees the thing which is before...he who sees what parts that thing is composed of. To do this well is a rare talent. One person from inattention, or attending only in the wrong place,...
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The Art of the Orator

Sir Edgar Rees Jones - 1912 - 198 pages
...parts that thing is composed of. To do this well is a rare talent. One person from inattention, or attending only in the wrong place, overlooks half of what he sees, confounding it with what he imagines or with what he infers ; another takes note of the kind of all...
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The Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Volume 5

1913 - 342 pages
...this, it appears, is a difficult matter. "One person," says John Stuart Mill, "from inattention or attending only in the wrong place, overlooks half of what he sees, confounding it with what he imagines or with what he infers; another takes note of the kind of all...
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The Principles of psychology v. 2, Volume 2

William James - 1918 - 720 pages
...which is so much in the spirit of the text that 1 cannot forbear to quote it. "The observer is net he who merely sees the thing which is before his eyes,...he who sees what parts that thing is composed of. To do this well is a rare talent. One person, from inattention, or attending only in the wrong place,...
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