All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind and make their way... The Principles of Psychology - Page 328by Herbert Spencer - 1906Full view - About this book
| Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...has carried it to the highest pitch. The first sentence of his Treatise of Human Nature runs thus : " All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct heads, which I shall call impressions and ideas." He adds, a little after, that, under the name of... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...carried it to the highest pitch. The first sentence of his " Treatise of Human Nature" runs thus :— "All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct heads, which I shall call impressions and ideas." Ha adds, a little after, that, under (he паке... | |
| Theology - 1865 - 912 pages
...introduced among us by the British Section of the Nescient School of Comte. Hume begins thus his famous Treatise of Human Nature : — " All the perceptions...resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt them consists in the degrees of force and liveliness... | |
| James McCosh - Christianity - 1871 - 410 pages
...founder and head of the philosophy which he adopts, and which I am inclined to call Humism. Hume says : "All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds of impressions and ideas." * He begins with impressions and ideas, — momentary impressions and ideas,... | |
| Karl Rosenkranz, Anna Callender Brackett - Education - 1872 - 260 pages
...deeper and truer reality l at each step. i Hume, in his famous sketch of the Human Understanding, makes all the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds : impressions and ideas. " The difference between them consists in the degrees of force and liveliness... | |
| James McCosh - Philosophy, Scottish - 1875 - 506 pages
...introdueed among us by the British section of the nescient school of Comte. Hume begins thus his famous " Treatise of Human Nature : " " All the perceptions...resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt them consists in the degrees of force and liveliness... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1878 - 780 pages
...Berkeley which look as if they might have suggested the basis of Hume's skeptical theory. Hume opens his Treatise of Human Nature : " All the perceptions...resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness... | |
| Philosophy - 1877 - 464 pages
...philosophical library. It contains the characteristic doctrine of Hume on ideas stated in the famous passage : "All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds which I call impressions and ideas. The difference between them consists in the degrees of force or liveliness... | |
| 1878 - 958 pages
...intuitions looking directly on things. II. / object to Kant's Phenomenal theory of knowledge. Hume opens his "Treatise of Human Nature:" "All the perceptions...resolve themselves- into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas." The difference between these consists in the greater liveliness of the... | |
| University of Missouri - Lectures and lecturing - 1879 - 522 pages
...of reasoning, the destruction of mind was inevitable. His fundamental position was expressed thus: "All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt them consists in the degrees of force and liveliness... | |
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