By William James
The intense, engagingly written early works of the author and instructor who has profoundly prompted the best way americans imagine. "The Will to think and different Essays in renowned Philosophy" argues that every folks has definitely the right to think in hypotheses that aren't prone to facts and that such ideals may possibly truly switch the realm. additionally contains "Psychology: Briefer Course," a condensed and revised model of the enormous "Principles of Psychology," "Talks to academics and Students," and 9 vital essays.
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Mechanical Science assumes this matter to have 'mass' and to exert 'force,' defining these terms merely phenomenally, and not troubling itself about certain unintelligibilities which they present on nearer reflection. Motion similarly is assumed by mechanical science to exist independently of the mind, in spite of the difficulties involved in the assumption. , uncritically; Chemistry uncritically adopts all the data of Physics; and Physiology adopts those of Chemistry. Psychology as a natural science < previous page page_11 next page > < previous page page_12 next page > Page 12 deals with things in the same partial and provisional way.
1. 2. is reached, at which the stimulus has the value 3. From here onwards the sensation increases, but it increases less at each step, until at last, the 'acme' being reached, the sensation-line grows flat. The exact law of retardation is called Weber's law, from the fact that he first observed it in the case of weights. I will quote Wundt's account of the law and of the facts on which it is based. ''Everyone knows that in the stilly night we hear things unnoticed in the noise of day. The gentle ticking of the clock, the air circulating through the chimney, the cracking of the chairs in the room, and a thousand other slight noises, impress themselves upon our ear.
It has externality, objectivity, unity, substantiality, causality, in the full sense in which any later object or system of objects has these things. Here the young knower meets and greets his world; and the < previous page page_23 next page > < previous page page_24 next page > Page 24 miracle of knowledge bursts forth, as Voltaire says, as much in the infant's lowest sensation as in the highest achievement of a Newton's brain. The physiological condition of this first sensible experience is probably many nerve-currents coming in from various peripheral organs at once; but this multitude of organic conditions does not prevent the consciousness from being one consciousness.
