| Colin McAlpin - Aesthetics - 1915 - 460 pages
...its continuance in existence." And later on he continues: — " Setting aside some metaphysicians, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with inconceivable... | |
| John Laird - Personality - 1917 - 406 pages
...ask him by what right he speaks of an ' act of the mind ' 8 when he also maintains that the mind is nothing but ' a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement ' ? 4 We might ask, again,... | |
| Annie Besant - California - 1919 - 324 pages
...simple and continued which he calls himself; though I am certain there is no such principle in me. I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable... | |
| William McDougall - Animism - 1920 - 450 pages
...may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued, which he calls himself, though I am certain there is no such principle in me." " But setting aside...venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
| Joseph Alexander Leighton - First philosophy - 1922 - 604 pages
...never catch myself at any time without a perception and can never observe anything but the perception. But, setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind,...venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
| Joseph Alexander Leighton - First philosophy - 1922 - 598 pages
...aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." 4 Psychology has made much... | |
| Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - Philosophy - 1925 - 422 pages
...only a group of ' ' certain impressions which enter by the senses;" 3 and what we call our mind is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity." B The real essence of both external bodies and mind is utterly unknown;... | |
| George Arthur Wilson - Philosophy - 1926 - 408 pages
...truly be said not to exist."1 A little farther on in the same section he says of individuals: "They are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind is a kind... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1927 - 444 pages
...He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continu'd, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside...venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
| Charlie Dunbar Broad - Ontology - 1927 - 536 pages
...The classical statement of this view is Hume's. "I may venture to affirm of. ..mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux or movement."1 This gives, of course, a... | |
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