The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different,... Psychology: Empirical and Rational - Page 474by Michael Maher - 1902 - 610 pagesFull view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1893 - 578 pages
...appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different." And lest his readers should reply : But players at least imply a stage, as impressions — to use Locke's... | |
| Henry Footman - Apologetics - 1883 - 166 pages
...postures and situations. There is no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different times, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine...simplicity and identity. " The comparison of the theatre," he continues, " must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only that constitute the mind."... | |
| David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1888 - 756 pages
...appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural pro- pension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must... | |
| William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,...simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre mast not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have... | |
| David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 598 pages
...appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propelislon we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must... | |
| William James - Psychology - 1890 - 720 pages
...repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There in properly 1i0 simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propensiou we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must... | |
| David Hume - 1896 - 744 pages
...appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,...comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the su£cessiye_Eerceptions^only, thiit rnn'ititiitp the mind ; nor have we the most distant notion of... | |
| James Iverach - Religion and science - 1899 - 358 pages
...appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propensity we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity, the comparison of the theatre must... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...appearance, pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,...identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead _us. They are the successive perceptions jinl^ that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant... | |
| James Mark Baldwin - Philosophy - 1902 - 946 pages
...appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time nor identity in difference' (Hume, Green and Grose's ed., Treatise, i. 534). "Ward attributes the doctrine to the '... | |
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