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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: be quantitatively exact. We cannot ascertain the precise dimensions of a feeling of pain as we can measure a material body or its movement; although we can say that one pain is more intense than another, we cannot say by how much more. This difficulty, which is real, will have to be dealt with by and by in connexion with certain attempts to measure the intensity and duration of some of the more elementary mental phenomena. 4. (2) Indirect or External Observation of Mind. The difficulties that beset the process of internal inspection of mental processes, though not fatal to it, show the desirability of supplementing this mode of investigation by another. Such an auxiliary and supplementary mode of studying psychical facts is provided in external or indirect observation. Here we have to watch the manifestations of mind in others, and to interpret these by the aid of our own conscious experiences. 4a. Remarkable Minds. Such external or objective study of mind includes, first of all, the careful noting of individual minds, whether personally known to us, or heard or read of from others. In selecting our examples we should be careful to vary the circumstances, that is, take minds widely unlike one another in their natural tendencies and conditioning circumstances. Thus we should choose our instances from the two sexes, from different races, and so forth. Not only so, we must be careful to take account of minds of exceptional power, or those which exhibit a high degree of individuality. Thus the lives of great men are particularly instructive to the psychologist as displaying mind or certain of its activities in a specially distinct and striking manner.1 So, again, the history of minds which have been subjected to the influence of an unusual environment, as the alleged cases...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217628082 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217628087 |
| Weight | 1.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.28 In |
| List Price | $29.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 574 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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