The principles of psychology : Vol. 1 / by Herbert Spencer.
"The four parts of which this work consists, though intimately related to each other as different views of the same great aggregate of phenomena, are yet, in the main, severally independent and complete in themselves. A brief characterization of each part, will enable everyone to decide for him...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Williams and Norgate,
1870.
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| Edition: | Second edition, stereotyped. |
| Series: | System of synthetic philosophy.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks: Vol. 1 APA PsycBooks: Vol. 2 |
| Summary: | "The four parts of which this work consists, though intimately related to each other as different views of the same great aggregate of phenomena, are yet, in the main, severally independent and complete in themselves. A brief characterization of each part, will enable everyone to decide for himself which he may best commence with The General Analysis (of which the essential portion was originally published in the Westminster Review for October, 1853, under the title of "The Universal Postulate," and reappears here with additional arguments and explanations is an inquiry concerning the basis of our intelligence. Its object is to ascertain the fundamental peculiarity of all modes of consciousness constituting knowledge proper-knowledge of the highest validity. The Special Analysis has for its aim, to resolve each species of cognition into its components. Commencing with the most involved ones, it seeks by successive decompositions to reduce cognitions of every order to those of the simplest kind; and so, finally to make apparent the common nature of all thought, and disclose its ultimate constituents. While these analytical parts deal with the phenomena of intelligence subjectively, and, as a necessary consequence, are confined to human intelligence; the synthetical parts deal with the phenomena of intelligence objectively, and so include not human intelligence, only, but intelligence under every form"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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| Item Description: | Half-title: A system of synthetic philosophy, vol. iv-v. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 635 pages) : illustrations. |