 | P. Naur - 1995 - 388 pages
...whole of the sentence, both before and after the spot in which the word man is used. ... [I 257-258] Let us use the words psychic overtone, suffusion,...makes it aware of relations and objects but dimly perceived. If we then consider the cognitive function of different states of mind, we may feel assured... | |
 | Mitchell G. Ash - 1998 - 532 pages
...expectation and relation which we know only by active "acquaintance." The "fringes" he attributed to "the influence of a faint brain-process upon our thought,...makes it aware of relations and objects but dimly perceived," for example when we hear a thunderclap and immediately have the vague expectation that... | |
 | Jonathan Shear, Francisco J. Varela - 1999 - 328 pages
...feelings are not sensorial images, however,6 and they are a very important part of our stream of thought.7 Let us use the words psychic overtone, suffusion,...faint brain-process upon our thought, as it makes us aware of relations or objects but dimly perceived (1890, p. 258). another kind of consciousness... | |
 | M. Gail Hamner - 2003 - 252 pages
...European colleagues, James describes the fringe as a "psychic overtone" or "suffusion" that indicates "a faint brain,process upon our thought, as it makes it aware of relations and objects but dimly perceived,"44 Less cryptically, he characterizes the fringe as constituting the "dynamic meaning" of... | |
 | William James - 2007 - 709 pages
...instances will come before us of the actual effect on consciousness of neuroses not yet maximally aroused. It is just like the ' overtones ' in music. Different...makes it aware of relations and objects but dimly perceived, t If we then consider the cognitive function of different * Mental Physiology, ยง 288, Dr.... | |
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Different instruments give the "same note," but each in a different voice, because each gives more than that note, namely, various upper harmonics of it which differ from one instrument to another. They are not separately heard by the ear; they blend... 
