The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2)
- Language:
- English
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- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
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- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~350,000 words · 1,639 passages
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- APAWilliam James. (n.d.). The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/william-james/the-principles-of-psychology-volume-2-of-2
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What it is about
The second volume: sensation and the perception of space, instinct, emotion, reasoning and will.
Context and history
Here is the account of emotion that carries James's name alongside Lange's: we do not tremble because we are afraid, we are afraid because we tremble — the feeling is the perception of the bodily change. James spent twelve years on the book and, handing it in, told his publisher it was a bloated, misshapen mass; it founded psychology as a discipline in English all the same.
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The question refers to their combinations. What is meant by 'experience'. Spencer on ancestral experience. Two ways in which new cerebral structure arises: the 'back-door' and the 'front-door' way. The genesis of the elementary mental categories. The genesis of the natural sciences. Scientific conceptions arise as accidental variations. The genesis of the pure sciences. Series of evenly increasing terms. The principle of mediate comparison. That of skipped intermediaries. Classification. Predication. Formal logic. Mathematical propositions. Arithmetic. Geometry. Our doctrine is the same as Locke's. Relations of ideas _v._ couplings of things The natural sciences are inward ideal schemes with which the order of nature proves congruent. Metaphysical principles are properly only postulates. Æsthetic and moral principles are quite incongruent with the order of nature. Summary of what precedes. The origin of instincts. Insufficiency of proof for the transmission to the next generation of acquired habits. Weismann's views. Conclusion. INDEX. PSYCHOLOGY. CHAPTER XVII. SENSATION. After inner perception, outer perception! The next three chapters will treat of the processes by which we cognize at all times the present world of space and the material things which it contains. And first, of the process called Sensation. SENSATION AND PERCEPTION DISTINGUISHED. _The words Sensation and Perception_ do not carry very definitely discriminated meanings in popular speech, and in Psychology also their meanings run into each other.…