Author: James Gracey Murphy
Publisher: General Books
Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781458923516
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... part I. the understanding. the understanding, taken in the most comprehensive sense, is the faculty of knowing and conceiving. It includes understanding proper,16 the apprehending or empirical faculty; reason, the intuitive faculty; and imagination, the conceptive faculty. By it we observe, remember, know, imagine, judge, and reason. We observe, when we feel, discern, perceive, or are conscious of anything. We imagine, when we conceive or construct. Hence the chief branches of the intellectual faculty are--sensation, intuition, perception, consciousness; memory, knowledge; imagination, judgment, reasoning, and method. Before these must be placed the intellectual capacity, that is, the sensibility. By sensation, intuition, perception, consciousness, and memory, we make and keep up our acquaintance with the world of things; by imagination, we contemplate and combine things conceivable, whether they have a place in the real world or not; by judgment, we apprehend the relations of things, real or problematical; and by reasoning we arrive at conclusions. In sensation, intuition, perception, consciousness, and judgment, the understanding is nearly alone; in memory, the will comes into play; in imagination, reasoning, and method, we verge on the peculiar field of power; in sense, we are aware of effects; in intuition, we descry causes, qualities, relations; in perception, we take note of external things; in consciousness, we are cognisant of ourselves and our movements, the internal things; in imagination, we conceive all manner of things; in judgment, we apprehend relations; in reasoning, we arrive at consequences; in method, we are concerned with the system of nature and art. To complete the sources of our knowledge of things, we must add opinion and faith. Opinion i...