The Psychology of Meaning by Kate Gordon (9781230328553)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... ii. meaning in terms of discrimination In contrast with the voluntaristic method just discussed, we may call the method next to be considered one sort of intellectualistic conception--the sort which pronounces the discriminative-associative character of thought to be its most ultimate aspect. This method, the outcome of the old associationism, finds ample indorsement also in more recent theory. Bain: The primary, or fundamental attributes of Thought, or Intelligence, have been already stated to be, Consciousness of Difference, Consciousness of Agreement, and Retentiveness. Also: The first and most fundamental property is the Consciousness of Difference or Discrimination. To be distinctly affected by two or more successive impressions is the most general fact of consciousness. We are never conscious at all without experiencing transition or change. (This has been called the law of Relativity.)" Sully: This discernment of difference is the most fundamental and constant element in all intellection. It is known as Discrimination." Spencer: From the most complex and most abstract inferences down to the most rudimentary intuitions all intelligence proceeds by the establishment of relations of likeness and unlikeness." The relation of unlikeness is the primordial one--is the relation involved in every other relation; and can itself be described in no other way than as a change in consciousness." The ultimate relation, therefore, is nothing more than a change in the state of consciousness; and we call it either a relation if unlikeness or a relation of sequence according as we think of the contrast distrimination. between the antecedent and consequent states, or of their order association." Ward says: Of the very beginning of this continuum...

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