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Principles of Psychology
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PSYCHOLOGY is the Science of Mental Life, both of its
phenomena and of their conditions. The phenomena are
such things as we call feelings, desires, cognitions, irenags,ondecisions,
and the like ; and, superficially considered,
their variety and complexity is such as to leave a chaotic
impression on the observer. The most natural and cseonq-uently
the earliest way
of unifying the material was,
first, to classify it as well as might be, and, secondly, to
affiliate the diverse mental modi* thus found, upon a
simple entity, the personal Soul, of which they are taken
to be so many
facultative manifestations. Now, for isnt-ance,
the Soul manifests its faculty of Memory, now of
Reasoning, now of Volition, or again its Imagination or its
Appetite. This is the orthodox ' spiritualistic ' theory of
scholasticism and of common-sense. Another and a less
obvious
way
of unifying the chaos is to seek common emelen-ts
in the divers mental facts rather than a common
agent behind them, and to explain them constructively by
the various forms of arrangement of these elements, as one
explains houses by stones aad bricks.
William James - Personal Name
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Principles of Psychology
Psychology
English
www.Fogottenbooks.com
2013
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