The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul

Noah Porter

Scribner, 1869 - History - 673 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 5
• edge which rests upon efficient causation 607 Can final cause be similarly applied?Such: 9
• judgmentsReasoning inductive and deductiveThe two distinguished 438 The two process: 14
• IITHE RELATIONS OF THE SOUL TO MATTER: 16
• distrusted by the philosopher? 17 Material phenomena are the earliest known 18 Materi: 23
• THE RELATIONS OF THE SOUL TO LIFE AND Living Beings 1 Life and living: 29
• Relations of the Soul to Life: 36
• THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL: 40
• IS PSYCHOLOGY A SCIENCE ? Can there be a Science of the Human: 51
• would render a science of life impossible: 59
• CONSCIOUSNESS I NATURAL CONSCIOUSNESS 83: 67
• Metaphorical definitions of consciousness 71 Proper meaning of consciousness 72 Apper: 74
• Peculiar in the language by which it is described 77 Consciousness the objectPsychical: 81
• not be inferredProved by every act of memoryAdmitted by those who deny itThe relations: 103
• PRESENTATION AND PRESENTATIVE KNOWLEDGE: 119
• The Process of SensePerception: 127
• CLASSES OF SENSEPERCEPTIONS: 135
• THE ACQUIRED SENSEPERCEPTIONS: 158
• DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF SENSEPERCEP: 178
• THE PRODUCTS OF SENSEPERCEPTION OR THE PER: 192
• ACTIVITY OF THE SOUL IN SENSEPERCEP: 210
• THEORIES OF SENSEPERCEPTION: 221
• ence often mischievousWhy especially liable to be erroneous sMore usually theories of vision: 246
• THE REPRESENTATIVE OBJECTITS NATURE AND: 258
• reality 235 Ideas especially useful in comparisonIn higher generalizations still fewer: 268
• Its relations of timeIts relations of place 275 The act of recognition may vary in positive: 276
• rational memory 283 The intentional memory definedThe object vaguely known already: 284
• The Secondary Laws of Association: 286
• the same principle with the primaryThe force of repetitionThe recentness of the object: 299
• REPRESENTATION 2 THE PHANTASY OR IMAGING: 325
• Sleep as a Condition of the Body or Sleep Physiologically considered: 331
• with surprising energy 333 Does the somnambulist perceive at all with the senses?The: 334
• REPRESENTATION 3 THE IMAGINATION OR CREATIVE: 351
• The Combining and arranging Office of the Imagination: 357
• Special Applications of the Imagination a The Poetic Imagination: 366
• d Imagination and Religious Faith: 373
• higher knowledgeThe dignity of thoughtprocesses 373 The thoughtprocesses illustrated: 379
• THOUGHT THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT: 388
• The classifications of scienceClassification not peculiar to scienceWhat the nomenclature of: 395
• THE NATURE OF THE CONCEPT SKETCH OF THEO: 403
• Thomas Hobbes 404 John Locke 405 G W Leibnitz 406 Geo Berkeley: 409
• The concept an object and not an act 417 Implies the distinction of beings: 416
• Can be used for naming 421 It is a classifying agent 422 It is applied to an object: 426
• the nature of names4 In the nature of knowledgeMutual relations of the concept and: 433
• Deduction and the Syllogism: 443
• None of these dicta satisfactoryThe Syllogism not a petitio principii The Syllogism: 453
• The construction of geometrical figures Auxiliary linesTentative processes often required: 464
• Such inductions styled the purely or only logical 466 Examples of proper induction: 470
• for another 480 The problem of induction remains unsolved 481 Certain relations à priori: 494
• THEORIES OF INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE: 517
• discerned by the light of nature 530 That they are innate or connate 531 The views: 533
• velopment of the several relations of extensionVoid or inclosing spaceMatter incloses void: 539
• Of Mutual Relations of Extended and Enduring Objects: 541
• Of Space and Time Objects as generalized or the Concepts of the Relations: 550
• Duration how related to the acts of the soulThe acts of the soul not distinguished: 554
• ample in MechanicsNewtons great laws of Mechanics 575 All material objects susceptible: 557
• Of Space and Time as Infinite and Unconditioned: 562
• CAUSATION AND THE RELATION OF CAusation: 569
• edPower and law how distinguished 587 What is an event?Events in the material world: 588
• MIND AND MATTER: 619
• The Mutual Relations of Material and Spiritual Substance next claim: 634
• Of the Real as Opposed to the Phenomenal: 640
• Spiritual or mental substance misconceivedTo know feel and will are causative: 646
• The Infinite and the Absolutetheir Relations to the Finite and Dependent: 647

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul; Making of America
• Author: Noah Porter
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Scribner, 1869
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 20, 2008
• ISBN: 1425568734, 9781425568733
• Length: 673 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General