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... higher stage of thought , appears in the ancient philosophy of India , and in the theology of the New Testament . It also presents itself very distinctly in Greek philosophy , more especially in the writings of Plato . In modern ...
... higher stage of thought , appears in the ancient philosophy of India , and in the theology of the New Testament . It also presents itself very distinctly in Greek philosophy , more especially in the writings of Plato . In modern ...
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... higher animals we find points of community between their experience and our own , e.g. , similar senses and impulses , we also find well - marked points of contrast . The region of animal instinct still remains , to a large extent , a ...
... higher animals we find points of community between their experience and our own , e.g. , similar senses and impulses , we also find well - marked points of contrast . The region of animal instinct still remains , to a large extent , a ...
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... higher degree of perfection that recent psychologists have improved on the old account of intellect as made up of distinct faculties , as obser- vation and imagination , and resolved all processes of intellection into one or two ...
... higher degree of perfection that recent psychologists have improved on the old account of intellect as made up of distinct faculties , as obser- vation and imagination , and resolved all processes of intellection into one or two ...
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... higher mental operations ( e.g. , comparison , choice ) which can be easily interposed in this kind of experiment.1 Other lines of psycho - physical ex- periment have to do with the determination of the time - interval which can be most ...
... higher mental operations ( e.g. , comparison , choice ) which can be easily interposed in this kind of experiment.1 Other lines of psycho - physical ex- periment have to do with the determination of the time - interval which can be most ...
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... higher mental phenomena , as thought and volition , we have only a vague and incomplete knowledge of the nervous conditions involved . So that physiology gives the psychologist less and less help as he advances from the elementary facts ...
... higher mental phenomena , as thought and volition , we have only a vague and incomplete knowledge of the nervous conditions involved . So that physiology gives the psychologist less and less help as he advances from the elementary facts ...
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