Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. IDEAS. Haec in genere aors ease solet hutnana, ut quid in quovis genere recto aut cogitari aut effici poasit aentiant prius quam perspiciant. Laborem autem baud ita levem ilium veriti, qui in eo impendendua erat ut, ideaa operatione analytica penitua evolventes, quid taudera velint, aut quaaaam...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. IDEAS. Haec in genere aors ease solet hutnana, ut quid in quovis genere recto aut cogitari aut effici poasit aentiant prius quam perspiciant. Laborem autem baud ita levem ilium veriti, qui in eo impendendua erat ut, ideaa operatione analytica penitua evolventes, quid taudera velint, aut quaaaam res agatur, sibi ipsia rationem aufficientem reddant, confuais, aut saltern baud satin eiplicatis rationibus, ratiocinia, et acientiarum adeo systemata superstruere aolent communiter, eoque confidentiua, quo ejus quam tractant acientise fundamentum aolidum magia ignorant. ?Schmidt-Phiseldek, Philos. Oriticte Expositio Systematica, t. i. p. 561. Pour systematiser une acience, c'est-a-dire, pour ramener une suite de phenomenes ii leur principe, a un phenomene elemen- taire qui engendre successivement tous les autrea, il faut saiair leura rapports, le rapport de generation qui les lie; et pour cela, il est clair qu'il faut commencer par examiner ces differens phe- noinenes separeraent.?Cousin, Fragm. Philos., p. 8. The sensations which we have through the medium of the senses exist only by the presence of the object, and cease upon its absence; nothing being here meant by the presence of the object, but that position of it with respect to the organ, whichis the antecedent of the sensation; or by its absence, but any other position. It is a known part of our constitution, that when our sensations cease, by the absence of their objects, something remains. After I have seen the sun, andby shutting my eyes see him no longer, I can still think of him. I have still a feeling, the consequence of the sensation, which, though I can distinguish it from the sensation, and treat it as not the sensation, but something different from the sensation, is yet more like the sen...