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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: H.?(JN THE FUNCTION OF COGNITION.1 By Professor William James. The folio-wing inquiry is (to use a distinction familiar to readers of Mr. Shadworth Hodgson) not an inquiry into the how it comes, but into the what it is of cognition. What -we call acts of cognition are evidently realised through what we call brains and their events, whether there be souls dynamically connected with the brains or not. But with neither brains nor souls has this essay any business to transact. In it we shall simply assume that cognition is produced, somehow, and limit ourselves to asking what elements it contains, what factors it implies. In other words, our task is a purely analytic and introspective one; less important, possibly, than would be a successful research into the causes of cognition, but still interesting enough in its way. Cognition is a function of consciousness. The first factor it implies is therefore a state of consciousness wherein the cognition shall take place. Having in Mind XXXIII. used the word Feeling to designate generically all states of consciousness considered subjectively, or without respect to their possible function, I shall then say that, whatever elements an act of cognition may imply besides, it at least implies the existence of a feeling. If the reader share the current antipathy to the word feeling, he may substitute for it, wherever I use it, the word idea, taken in the old broa-d Lockian sense, or he may use the clumsy phrase state of consciousness, or finally he may say thought instead. Now it is to be observed that the common consent of mankind has agreed that some feelings are cognitive and some are simple facts having a subjective or, what one might almost call a physical, existence, but no such self-transcendent function as would ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217237918 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217237916 |
| Weight | 1.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.36 In |
| List Price | $38.88 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 612 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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