This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...of objects, can hardly be defined or described in temis of anything with which we are more fully acquainted than itself; yet something may profitably be said about it in relation to other modes in which objects are combined..When objects, such as colours, are consciously apprehended by a particular ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...of objects, can hardly be defined or described in temis of anything with which we are more fully acquainted than itself; yet something may profitably be said about it in relation to other modes in which objects are combined..When objects, such as colours, are consciously apprehended by a particular individual, their distinctive features are preserved, but they are combined with one another in ways that are not simply spatial or temporal or causal or vital, but in relation to an individual focus. The following characteristics appear to be specially noteworthy in this mode of unity: (1) Consciousness admits of degree: we may be more or less aware. This degree has to be distinguished from the intensity of the particular object that is apprehended, such as the brightness of a colour or the loudness of a sound. (2) Consciousness has a place in the time order, and is also connected with a special position in space. '( 3) In its relation to time it has real duration. The " specious present " is not a mere point; and what belongs to a past mode of consciousness is not, in general, altogether lost. This aspect of consciousness also admits of degree. The range of the present may be more or less wide. (4) The element of valuation enters in..We like certain objects and dislike others; and this also admits of more and less. (5) The final cause becomes efiicient. The valuation of objects leads to changes in our relations to them. The significance of these characteristics will, it is hoped, become more apparent as we proceed. 2. Sense in which Things are in Consciousness.--We have already called attention to the ambiguity in the word " in." That in a certain sense the objects that we apprehend are in consciousness is...
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