Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind. Volume 1 / James Mill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mill, James, 1773-1836, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Intellect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 453 pages)

Other Title:

Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind

Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind, Vol 1

Place of Publication:

London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

Summary:

This book is an attempt to reach the simplest elements which by their combination generate the manifold complexity of our mental states, and to assign the laws of those elements, and the elementary laws of their combination, from which laws, the subordinate ones which govern the compound states are consequences and corollaries. The phenomena of the Mind include multitudes of facts, of an extraordinary degree of complexity. By observing them one at a time with sufficient care, it is possible in the mental, as it is in the material world, to obtain empirical generalizations of limited compass, but of great value for practice. When, however, we find it possible to connect many of these detached generalizations together, by discovering the more general laws of which they are cases, and to the operation of which in some particular sets of circumstances they are due, we gain not only a scientific, but a practical advantage; for we then first learn how far we can rely on the more limited generalizations; within what conditions their truth is confined; by what changes of circumstances they would be defeated or modified.

Contents:

Sensation

Ideas

The association of ideas

Naming

Consciousness.

Conception

Imagination

Classification

Abstraction

Memory

Belief

Ratiocination

Evidence.

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