| Description |
1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy |
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Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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| Contents |
pt. I. The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul. The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body. Sensations. Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul. Perception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence. Imagination, contemplation, and memory. How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory. The use of signs is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory. Reflection. Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas. Digression on the origin of principles and the operation that consists in analysis |
| Summary |
This work, first published in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, is a highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language, and anticipates Wittgenstein's views on language and its relation to mind and thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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Psychology -- Early works to 1850.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aarsleff, Hans.
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| LC no. |
00054721 |
| ISBN |
0511016360 (electronic bk.) |
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0511054149 |
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051115397X |
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1139164163 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511016363 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511054143 |
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9780511153976 |
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9781139164160 (electronic bk.) |
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