The Senses and the Intellect

Alexander Bain

J. W. Parker, 1855 - 614 sider

Indhold

• Explanatory remarks: 1
• Transition from the actual to the ideal: 6
• Plan of the present work: 8
• Subject of Function: 10
• An emotional state gives its character to the trains: 11
• Emotions and passions: 12
• OF THE NERVOUS SUBSTANCE: 13
• Sir Charles Bell on the movements of the face: 14
• The Nerve Centres in general: 16
• Circumstances favouring the cohesion of feelings: 18
• Depressing action of certain emotions: 20
• Internal Structure of the Brain: 25
• OF THE CEREBROSPINAL NERVES: 31
• Process of perceiving the true Magnitude and Distance: 39
• Automatic or reflex actions and their centres: 46
• Functions of the lesser grey centres of the Brain: 53
• PAGE: 57
• Experiments on the convolutions: 58
• Reasons for including Appetites and Instincts in the depart: 65
• Irritability or Contractility of Muscle: 71
• The muscles act in groups or systems: 81
• Feelings of muscular fatigue: 91
• Examples of dead tension: 100
• Passive movements: 106
• Discrimination of the degree of contraction in a muscle: 113
• Classification according to locality or seat: 122
• Freshness feelings of Relief: 129
• Materials of food: 135
• Nausea and Disgust: 141
• Feelings of Electrical States PAGE 19 Electric and Voltaic shocks: 145
• Electrical state of the Atmosphere: 146
• SENSE OF TASTE 1 Bodies acting on the sense of Taste: 147
• Organ of Taste description of the Tongue: 149
• Local distribution of the sensibility of the tongue: 150
• Mode of action in taste: 151
• Sensations of Taste complex sensibility of the tongue: 152
• Order of Classification: 153
• Relishes ib 8 Disgusts: 154
• description of feeling of Sweetness ib 10 Bitter tastes: 156
• Saline tastes ib 12 Alkaline tastes: 157
• Fiery tastes ib 16 Intellectual aspect of tastes: 158
• Development of odours: 160
• Diffusion of odours: 161
• description of the Nose ib 5 Action of odours: 163
• their classification: 164
• Fresh odours: 165
• sensation of sweetness: 166
• Bad odours: 167
• Pungent odours: 168
• Ethereal odours: 169
• Appetizing odours ib 15 Flavour: 170
• Position assigned to touch by physiologists: 171
• Mode of action in touch: 177
• Sensations of touch involving muscular feelings: 185
• Qualities of Extension and Solidity: 193
• Action of the parts of the ear in the sensation of sound: 199
• Distance: 211
• Iris Ciliary processes Ciliary ligament: 221
• Optical and muscular feelings combined: 239
• Solid effect: 245
• Exercise and Repose: 251
• Functions of the Cerebellum: 257
• This implies an arrangement for reciprocating each limb: 263
• Stimulation of the organs in Astonishment: 283
• OF THE INSTINCTIVE GERM OF VOLITION: 289
• Summary of the theory of volition: 297
• Anatomy of the organ of voice: 299
• The articulate voice: 306
• General characters that distinguish the Intellect: 315
• Acquisition of combined movements: 321
• 34: 341
• The use of Touch to the Blind: 347
• Three different kinds of forms: 353
• SENSATIONS OF DIFFERENT SENSES: 359
• Meaning or import of Extension: 367
• The appreciation of Distance follows the estimate: 379
• Localization of bodily feelings: 385
• ASSOCIATES WITH EMOTION: 393
• Sublimity and beauty of sounds: 399
• Reading of Emotional expression: 401
• NATURAL OBJECTSAGGREGATES OF NATURAL QUALITIES: 411
• 55: 414
• Conjunction of objects with their scientific properties: 417
• Natural persistence of mental movements once begun: 420
• Method of mechanical training: 426
• The mother tongue: 432
• The experimental and concrete sciences: 438
• their mode of adhesion: 443
• CHAPTER II: 451
• Identification of feelings of organic life: 457
• Movements case of Speech: 463
• Touches: 469
• The ear concerned in our retentiveness for language: 475
• Properties common to sensations of different senses: 484
• Objects identified from their uses mechanical invention: 490
• Classifications of the naturalist Linnæus: 496
• Identification among the different classes of successions: 501
• Scientific Causation Newtons discovery of universal: 507
• the inductive process demands the power: 514
• Reasoning by Analogy: 523
• Persuasion: 529
• Some of the Fine Arts involve the intellect largely: 535
• Business acquisitions: 541
• Connexion of things with uses: 549
• MIXED CONTIGUITY AND SIMILARITY: 555
• The purely intellectual bonds are made subordinate: 558
• Recollections obstructed by the minds being possessed: 564
• CHAPTER IV: 571
• Construction of inexperienced ideas of weight range c: 577
• CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EMOTIONS: 584
• REALISING OF REPRESENTATION OR DESCRIPTION: 590
• The mental quality termed soundness of Judgment: 597
• FINE ART CONSTRUCTIONS IMAGINATION: 599
• Constructions to satisfy the emotions of Fine Art properly: 605

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• Titel: The Senses and the Intellect
• Forfatter: Alexander Bain
• Udgiver: J. W. Parker, 1855
• Længde: 614 sider