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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. CONSCIOUSNESS; ITS CONTINUITY. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. So far then we have seen (i) that Philosophy must in the first place concern us as Science, and (2) the peculiarity of Psychology and the kind of place it takes when connected with the other sciences. I said that this peculiarity calls for special language. Let us discuss further some of these special terms. Mind and Metaphor. If we speak of mind as ' internal, ' ' inner' experience, to contrast it with external things, it is not for any really definite meaning we can attach to it by those expressions. The mind of each of us is not in a strict sense inside any of us. Even ' subjective' is just as metaphorical and belonging to external description as any other term. In ' conscious experience ' we get a word significant, expressive, and not borrowed. ' Conscious ' and ' consciousness ' are slightly metaphorical too, but let no more be said against them; they grew up for psychological purposes and?without closing the question whether mind and consciousness are commensurate, whether there is not mental experience which is not consciousness?the latter word is a useful general term for the whole of our mental experience. It is not surprising to find that our psychological language is metaphorical.Language originally was merely for work-a-day purposes of life. Mankind had to live before it could think. ' Perception, ' e. g., meant a thorough grasp of anything by the hand, but is now used in psychology in a very special metaphorical sense. Psychologising by Introspection. The terms ' self-consciousness, ' ' reflexion, ' ' introspection, ' as we have seen, express, each and all of them, the peculiar standpoint of one who is ' psychologising, ' or subjectively observant. In saying ' I perceive an object, ' thWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Elements of Psychology. To get started finding Elements of Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0217947328

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. CONSCIOUSNESS; ITS CONTINUITY. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. So far then we have seen (i) that Philosophy must in the first place concern us as Science, and (2) the peculiarity of Psychology and the kind of place it takes when connected with the other sciences. I said that this peculiarity calls for special language. Let us discuss further some of these special terms. Mind and Metaphor. If we speak of mind as ' internal, ' ' inner' experience, to contrast it with external things, it is not for any really definite meaning we can attach to it by those expressions. The mind of each of us is not in a strict sense inside any of us. Even ' subjective' is just as metaphorical and belonging to external description as any other term. In ' conscious experience ' we get a word significant, expressive, and not borrowed. ' Conscious ' and ' consciousness ' are slightly metaphorical too, but let no more be said against them; they grew up for psychological purposes and?without closing the question whether mind and consciousness are commensurate, whether there is not mental experience which is not consciousness?the latter word is a useful general term for the whole of our mental experience. It is not surprising to find that our psychological language is metaphorical.Language originally was merely for work-a-day purposes of life. Mankind had to live before it could think. ' Perception, ' e. g., meant a thorough grasp of anything by the hand, but is now used in psychology in a very special metaphorical sense. Psychologising by Introspection. The terms ' self-consciousness, ' ' reflexion, ' ' introspection, ' as we have seen, express, each and all of them, the peculiar standpoint of one who is ' psychologising, ' or subjectively observant. In saying ' I perceive an object, ' thWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Elements of Psychology. To get started finding Elements of Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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