 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 1012 pages
...terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin ; but relations, what are they but pure acts of the intellect coming upon the sensations from above, and...sudden relief it gave me to perceive one day that space relations at any rate were homogeneous with the terms between which they mediated. The terms... | |
 | William James - Reality - 1909 - 342 pages
...terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin; but relations, what are they but pure acts of the intellect coming upon the sensations from above, and...spaces, and the relations were other intervening spaces. 1 For the Greenites space-relations had been saltatory, for me they became thenceforward ambulatory.... | |
 | William James - Reality - 1909 - 340 pages
...terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin; but relations, what are they but pure acts of the intellect coming upon the sensations from above, and...were spaces, and the relations were other intervening spaces.1 For the Greenites space-relations had been saltatory, for me they became thenceforward ambulatory.... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 666 pages
...world. 27. Principles, 2:154. This example essentially represents James's view of space. He once wrote: "I well remember the sudden relief it gave me to perceive one day that space relations at any rate were homogeneous with the terms between which they mediated. The terms... | |
 | William James - Literary Collections - 1988 - 1410 pages
...terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin; but relations, what are they but pure acts of the intellect coming upon the sensations from above, and...sudden relief it gave me to perceive one day that space- relations at any rate were homogeneous with the terms between which they mediated. The terms... | |
 | Herbert Wallace Schneider - Philosophy - 1946 - 620 pages
...terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin; but relations, what are they but pure acts of the intellect coming upon the sensations from above, and...sudden relief it gave me to perceive one day that j^aci-relations at any rate were homogeneous with the terms between which they mediated. The terms... | |
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Years ago, when TH Green's ideas were most influential, I was much troubled by his criticisms of english sensationalism. One of his disciples in particular would always say to me, 'Yes! terms may indeed be possibly sensational in origin; but relations,... 