Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, Band 1

Thomas Cogswell Upham

Harper & Brothers, 1848

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INTRODUCTION CHAP I PRIMARY TRUTHS 2 Nature of such preliminary statements	17

Of the name or designation given them	18

Primary truth of personal existence Section 1 Importance of preliminary statements in Mental Philosophy Page 17 17 18	19

Occasions of the origin of the idea or belief of personal existence	20

Primary truth of personal identity 7 Reasons for regarding this a preliminary truth 8 There are original and authoritative grounds of belief 9 Primary ...	21

Occasions of the origin of the primary truth of effects and causes	26

Matter and mind have uniform and fixed laws	27

This primary truth not founded on reasoning	28

OF ATTENTION 153 Of the general nature of attention	198

Of different degrees of attention	199

Dependance of memory on attention	200

Of exercising attention in reading	202

Alleged inability to command the attention	203

CHAP XVDREAMING 158 Definition of dreams and the prevalence of them	204

Connexion of dreams with our waking thoughts	205

Dreams are often caused by our sensations	206

IMMATERIALITY OF THE MIND 14 On the meaning of the terms material and immaterial	30

Difference between mind and matter shown from language 16 Their different nature shown by their respective properties	31

The souls immateriality indicated by the feeling of identity	32

The material doctrine makes a man a machine 19 No exact correspondence between the mental and bodily state	34

Evidence of this want of exact correspondence	35

Comparative state of the mind and body in dreaming	36

The great works of genius an evidence of immateriality	37

The doctrine of materiality inconsistent with future existence	39

LAWS OF BELIEF 24 Of belief its degrees and its sources	41

Memory and testimony considered as sources of belief	42

Objection to reliance on testimony	44

Of relative suggestion as a ground of belief	45

Of reasoning as a ground or law of belief	46

The mind may be regarded in a threefold point of view	47

Evidence of the general arrangement from consciousness	48

Evidence of the same from the terms found in different languages 50 33 Evidence from incidental remarks in writers	50

Classification of the intellectual states of the mind	55

DIVISION FIRST THE INTELLECT OR UNDERSTANDING INTELLECTIVE OR INTELLECTUAL STATES OF THE MIND PART FIRST THE ...	57

ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL Section 36 Connexion of the mind with the material world	59

Of the origin or beginnings of knowledge	60

Our first knowledge in general of a material or external origin Page 59 60	62

Further proof of the beginnings of knowledge from external causes	64

The same subject further illustrated	65

Subject illustrated from the case of James Mitchell	66

Illustration from the case of Caspar Hauser	67

Of connatural or innate knowledge	69

The doctrine of innate knowledge not susceptible of proof	70

The doctrine tried by the idea of a	71

The discussion of this subject superseded and unnecessary	73

Further remarks on the rise of knowledge by means of the senses	74

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 48 Sensation a simple mental state originating in the senses 49 All sensation is properly and truly in the mind	76

Sensations are not images or resemblances of objects	78

The connexion between the mental and physical change not sus ceptible of explanation 52 Of the meaning and nature of perception 53 Of the primar...	80

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THE SENSES OF SMELL AND TASTE 56 Nature and importance of the senses as a source of knowledge	84

Of the connexion of the brain with sensation and perception	85

Order in which the senses are to be considered	86

Of the sense and sensation of smell	87

Design and uses of the senses of smell and taste	89

THE SENSE OF HEARING 63 Organ of the sense of hearing	90

Nature of sonorous bodies and the medium of the communication of sound	91

Varieties of the sensation of sound	92

Manner in which we learn the place of sounds	93

Application of these views to the art of ventriloquism	94

Uses of hearing and its connexion with oral language	96

THE SENSE OF TOUCH	97

Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified	104

Measurements of magnitude by the	111

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Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief	119

Conceptions which are joined with perceptions	120

Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations	121

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CIKL 91	127

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Of the sense of touch and its sensations in general 70 Idea of externality suggested in connexion with the touch 3886 97	134

HABITS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION	135

Of certain universal habits based on sounds	142

Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase	149

Muscular habits regarded by some writers as involuntary	155

Of the influence of habit on our conceptions	161

Origin of the distinction of simple and complex	168

Nature and characteristics of simple mental states 124 Simple mental states not susceptible of definition 126 Origin of complex notions and their relati...	169

Section	172

The precise sense in which complexness is to be understood	173

Illustrations of analysis as applied to the mind	174

Complex notions of external origin	175

Of objects contemplated as wholes 173 174 175	176

Something more in external objects than mere attributes or qual ities	177

Imperfections of our complex notions of external objects	178

ABSTRACTION	180

Instances of particular abstract ideas	181

Mental process in separating and abstracting them	182

Of generalizations of particular abstract mental states	183

Of the importance and uses of abstraction	184

GENERAL ABSTRACT IDEAS	185

Objection sometimes made to the existence of general notions	190

The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers c	191

Of general abstract truths or principles 147 Of the speculations of philosophers and others	192

Of different opinions formerly prevailing	193

Of the opinions of the Realists	194

Of the opinions of the Nominalists 151 Of the opinions of the Conceptualists	195

Further remarks of Brown on general abstractions	197

Explanation of the incoherency of dreams 1st cause	207

Second cause of the incoherency of dreams	208

Apparent reality of dreams 1st cause	209

Apparent reality of dreams 2d cause	210

Of our estimate of time in dreaming	211

Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect	213

Resemblance the first general law of association	219

The soul has fountains of knowledge within	221

Secondary laws and their connexion with the primary	225

Of association caused by present objects of perception	231

Ideas of existence mind selfexistence and personal identity	234

Section	236

Nature of succession and origin of the idea of succession	240

Characteristic marks of the notion of space	246

Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit	252

Remarks on the memory of the aged	254

Consciousness a ground or law of belief	258

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Of committing to writing as a means of aiding the memory	260

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CHAP VIICASUAL ASSOCIATIONS I INTELLECTUAL	295

Care to be used in correctly stating the subject of discussion	299

Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject	300

Tendency of the mind to pass from the sign to the thing signified	301

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Remarks on the general nature of memory	309

Further illustrations of philosophic memory	315

First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina of the	338

Second cause of permanently excited conceptions or apparitions Neglect of periodical bloodletting	339

Methods of relief adopted in this case	340

Third cause of excited conceptions Attacks of fever	341

Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions In flammation of the brain Page	342

Facts having relation to the fourth cause of excited conceptions 429	344

Grounds of the selection of propositions	345

Of disordered or alienated sensations	346

Of disordered or alienated external perception	347

Disordered state or insanity of original suggestion	348

Unsoundness or insanity of consciousness	349

Insanity of the judgment or relative suggestion	350

Disordered or alienated association Lightheadedness	351

Illustrations of this mental disorder	352

Of partial insanity or alienation of the memory	353

Of the power of reasoning in the partially insane	354

Instance of the above form of disordered reasoning	355

Of readiness of reasoning in the partially insane	356

Partial mental alienation by means of the imagination	357

Insanity or alienation of the power of belief	358

Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief	359

Of perception in cases of total or delirious insanity	360

Of association in delirious insanity	361

Illustration of the above section	362

Of the subjects and importance of moral reasoning	365

Of instances or experiments in inductive reasoning termed instan	371

On the sophism of estimating actions and character from the cir cumstances of success merely	379

Of adherence to our opinions	380

Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth 379 380	381

Imagination an intellectual process closely related to reasoning	383

Definition of the power of imagination	384

Process of the mind in the creations of the imagination	385

Further remarks on the same subject 384	386

Illustration of the statements of the preceding section 315 On the utility of the faculty of the imagination 310 Illustration from the writings of Dr Reid...	387

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Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning	394

Of misconceptions by means of the imagination 391 392	396

Feelings of sympathy aided by the imagination	398

COMPLEX IDEAS OF INTERNAL ORIGIN 321 Of complex ideas of external origin	399

Nature of complex ideas of internal origin 323 Of complex notions formed by the repetition of the same thing	400

Of the help afforded by names in the combination of numbers	401

Instances of complex notions made up of different simple ideas	402

Not the same internal complex ideas in all languages	404

Origin of the complex notion of a Supreme Being	406

DIVISION FIRST THE INTELLECT OR UNDERSTANDING INTELLECTIVE OR INTELLECTUAL STATES OF THE MIND PART THIRD IMP...	409

CONNEXION OF THE MIND AND BODY	411

The mind constituted on the principle of a connexion with the body	412

Illustration of the subject from the effects of old	413

The connexion of the bodily system with the mental shown from the effects resulting from diseases Page 411	414

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Of the memory in connexion with delirious insanity 364 Of the power of reasoning in total or delirious insanity 365 Of the form of insanity called fu...	451

Of moral accountability in mental alienation	452

Of the imputation of insanity to individuals	453

Of the treatment of the insane	454

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Titel	Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, Band 1 Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, Thomas Cogswell Upham
Autor/in	Thomas Cogswell Upham
Verlag	Harper & Brothers, 1848
Original von	New York Public Library
Digitalisiert	26. Sept. 2007

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