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Chapter 20 on Space-perception is described as "terrible" because it "unless written with all that detail, could not be fairly treated at all" [1]. While the book suggests that beginners might omit this chapter on a first reading, an abridgment titled 'The Spatial Quale' is offered as a potential substitute [1].
The provided passages do not explicitly state why Chapter 20 is considered "terrible" beyond its extensive detail requirement. They do not offer specific criticisms of its content or methodology, only that its subject matter demands significant elaboration [1].
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e sanguine who, in this crowded age, can hope to have many readers for fourteen hundred continuous pages from his pen. But _wer Vieles bringt wird Manchem etwas bringen_; and, by judiciously skipping according to their several needs, I am sure that many sorts of readers, even those who are just beginning the study of the subject, will find my book of use. Since the beginners are most in need of guidance, I suggest for their behoof that they omit altogether on a first reading chapters 6, 7, 8, 10 (from page 330 to page 371), 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 28. The better to awaken the…
discriminative sensibility: Weber's law. Fechner's interpretation of this as the psycho-physic law. Criticism thereof. CHAPTER XIV. ASSOCIATION The problem of the connection of our thoughts. It depends on mechanical conditions. Association is of objects thought of, not of 'ideas'. The rapidity of association. The 'law of contiguity'. The elementary law of association. Impartial redintegration. Ordinary or mixed association. The law of interest. Association by similarity. Elementary expression of the difference between the three kinds of association. Association in voluntary…
seful substitute for the entire chapter. I have kept close to the point of view of natural science throughout the book. Every natural science assumes certain data uncritically, and declines to challenge the elements between which its own 'laws' obtain, and from which its own deductions are carried on. Psychology, the science of finite individual minds, assumes as its data (1) _thoughts and feelings_, and (2) _a physical world_ in time and space with which they coexist and which (3) _they know_. Of course these data themselves are discussable; but the discussion of them (as of other…
rocess in attention: 1) Accommodation of sense-organ. 2) Preperception. Is voluntary attention a resultant or a force? The effort to attend can be conceived as a resultant. Conclusion. Acquired Inattention. CHAPTER XII. CONCEPTION The sense of sameness. Conception defined. Conceptions are unchangeable. Abstract ideas, 468. Universals. The conception 'of the same' is not the 'same state' of mind. CHAPTER XIII. DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON Locke on discrimination. Martineau _ditto_. Simultaneous sensations originally fuse into one object. The principle of mediate comparison. Not…
ent in a certain region, he said without more ado that that region was the 'organ' of the trait or faculty in question. The traits were of very diverse constitution, some being simple sensibilities like 'weight' or 'color;' some being instinctive tendencies like 'alimentiveness' or 'amativeness;' and others, again, being complex resultants like 'conscientiousness,' 'individuality.' Phrenology fell promptly into disrepute among scientific men because observation seemed to show that large faculties and large 'bumps' might fail to coexist; because the scheme of Gall was so vast as hardly…