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" 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 328
by Herbert Spencer - 1906
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on ...

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...
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The works of Thomas Reid, with selections from his unpublished letters ...

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...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 14

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...
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Christianity and Positivism

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,...
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The Science of Education: A Paraphrase of Dr. Karl Rosenkranz's Paedagogik ...

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...
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The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson ...

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...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Volume 2

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...
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The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris ..., Volume 11

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...
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The Princeton review. May-Dec. 1878

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...
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Public Lectures Delivered in the Chapel of the University of the ..., Volume 1

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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