 There is an original tendency or susceptibility of the mind, by which, on perceiving together different objects, we are instantly, without the intervention of any other mental process, sensible of their relation in certain respects...  The North American Review - Page 21edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 pages
...intervention of any other mental process, sensible of their relation in certain respects, as truly as there is an original tendency or susceptibility of the mind, by which, when external obvou n. 22 jects are present and have produced a certain affection of our sen* serial... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1828 - 564 pages
...suggestions, or from any combination of these, in the groupings of fancy. There is an original tendency in the mind, by which, on perceiving together different...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects. The number of these relations, even of external things, is almost infinite; and voL. iv.—Mo. 7. 3... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...original tendency or susceptibility, by means of which, whenever we perceive different objects together,we are instantly, without the intervention of any other...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects. §. 23J. Objection sometimes made to the existence of general notions. It should not, however, be objected,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1835 - 574 pages
...when I combated the excessive simplification of that ingenious, but not very accurate philosopher. There is an original tendency or susceptibility of...present and have produced a certain affection of our sensorinl organ, we are instantly affected with the primary elementary feelings of perception ; and,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1839 - 476 pages
...original tendency or susceptibility, by means of which, whenever we perceive different objects together, we are instantly, without the intervention of any...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects. §. 143. Objections sometimes made to the existence of general notions. It is proper briefly to notice... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 474 pages
...original tendency or susceptibility, by means of which, whenever we perceive different objects together, we are instantly, without the intervention of any...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects. $ 144. Objection sometimes made to the existence of general notions. It is proper briefly to notice... | |
 | Thomas Brown, James Parkinson Boyle - Philosophy - 1849 - 370 pages
...feelings of perception ; so another of them is, when we perceive together different objects, to be instantly, •without the intervention of any other...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects ; and, as our sensations or perceptions are of various species, so there are various species of relations... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 578 pages
...intervention of any other mental process, sensible of their relation in certain respects, as truly as there is an original tendency or susceptibility of the mind, by which, when external objects are present, and have produced a certain affection of our sensorial organ, we... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 578 pages
...the mind, comprehending our feelings of Relative Suggestion, that is, all our feelings of relation. There is an original tendency or susceptibility of the mind, by which, on perceiving together different objects, we are instantly, without the intervention of any other mental... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Ethics - 1857 - 474 pages
...original tendency or susceptibility, by means of which, whenever we perceive different objects together, we are instantly, without the intervention of any...process, sensible of their relation in certain respects. $ 144. Objection sometimes made to the existence of general notions. It is proper briefly to notice... | |
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