A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
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1910
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    Notes on the Nature of Thought and Generalization § i. On thought as sharing or shareable consciousness, cf. J. M. Baldwin, “Thought and Things,” Vol. II., Chapter III., on “ Common Acceptance and Acknowledgment.” § 2. On the historically developed doctrine of the ‘general notion, ’ cf. Locke, “ Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” Book III., Chapter III., §§ 6 ff., Berkeley, “Principles of Human Knowledge,” Introduction, §§ 6-20; also, T. Huxley, “Hume,” p. 112, and M. W. Calkins, “An Introduction to Psychology,” pp. 221 ff. § 3. On conception as ‘motor’ consciousness, cf. Baldwin, “Mental Development in the Child and Race,” pp. 325 ff.; Royce there cited on p. 330; C. H. Judd, Journal of Philosophy, VI., p. 90. § 4. According to a recent theory, conception is identical ex¬ cept in function with imagination. That is to say, imagination becomes conception merely by virtue of associating similar images. On this view, no characteristic attitude or element is involved in conception; and a given experience is conception, or generalization, not for what it is but for what it does. A very clear statement of this view is that of Professor Dickin¬ son Miller (Psychological Review, Vol. II., pp. 537 ff.). In the opinion of the writer, Dr. Miller is altogether right in this view that the function of conception is the association of similar images, but wrong in the denial of the structurally simple consciousness of generality which distinguishes conception.
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