Book 2 - Animality |
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Section One
| A False Definition Of Animal |
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| The Essential Difference Between The Feeling Principle And The Body |
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| Life As A Quality Of The Living Body And As A Quality Of The Feeling Soul |
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| Classification Of Natural Beings |
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| The Chain Of Beings |
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| The Distinction Between Organic Life And Animal Life Made By Some Physiologists |
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| The Feeling Principle Is Unextended |
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First demonstration of the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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Demonstration |
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Corollary 1 |
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Corollary 2 |
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Second demonstration of the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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Demonstration |
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An objection resolved |
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The law governing the fact which has been adduced as a proof of the simplicity of the soul |
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The law governing the fact used to prove the simplicity of the soul furnishes further demonstrations of the same truth |
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Continuation |
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Further development of the proofs offered in this article |
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Third demonstration of the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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Fourth demonstration of the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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| The Laws Governing The Relationship Between The Feeling Principle And The Sensiferous Principle |
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Popular ideas of the body are unreliable |
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Our body is first known through the fundamental corporeal feeling |
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The second kind of corporeal feelings: those without shaped extension |
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The third kind of corporeal feelings: those with shaped extension |
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In order to know shaped extension,we need to perceive limits to extension |
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In order to perceive the limits of a body,we must perceive something beyond the body |
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Shape is not perceived in the fundamental feeling |
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The principle for establishing which feelings are shaped and which are not |
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Space felt in the fundamental feeling is solid |
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The space felt in shaped feelings is only surface extension |
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The incorrect method used by Locke and his followers to form the idea of substance |
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Sensations extended in surfaces offer a new proof of the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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The soul does not refer sensations to different parts of the body; the parts are revealed to the soul by means of the position and shape of the sensations |
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The laws of relationship between the fundamental feeling and the second and third kind of feelings |
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These laws show the wisdom of the Creator |
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Shaped feelings,the third kind of feelings,present surfaces which,relative to each other and to the fundamental feeling, have a constant,harmonious position |
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An animal faculty of sensuous retention is necessary in order to explain the connection between the three kinds of corporeal feelings |
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When surface sensations give shape to the extension of the fundamental feeling,the extension becomes the origin of the idea of bodies other than our own and their measure It also gives rise to the popular idea of body |
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The constant position of shaped feelings together with movement and the faculty of sensuous retention gives us the perception of indefinitely large sizes |
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The laws of the relationship between feelings and our real body perceived extrasubjectively |
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The same surface-extension that
forms the seat of shaped feelings presents a foreign agent to our
fundamental feeling |
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Our real,extrasubjective body and ordinary, anatomical, extrasubjective body. Physical reciprocity between the soul and the real,subjective body |
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The laws governing the relationship between the subjective body and our ordinary, extrasubjective body |
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A common error: to every change in the ordinary body there corresponds a change of feeling in the same place |
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Haller's experiments on sensitive,irritable parts should have disproved the error,but the error remains |
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The error or misconception is refuted by the facts |
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The remarkable law by which the surfaces of the body are the special seat of feelings |
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The distinction between extension and the position of feelings |
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The difference between the absolute position of feelings and their position relative to the parts of the body |
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The phenomenal part of those sensations in which we find neither position nor extension |
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The laws of the relationship between our subjective body and the ordinary body do not and cannot indicate a connection of cause and effect |
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Corollary on craniology and phrenology |
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| How The Feelable Principle Is Distinguished From The Feeling And Sensiferous Principles |
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How an unextended principle can feel an extended principle |
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How what is feelable is distinguished from the feeling and the sensiferous principles |
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Justifying common sense in some of its apparent errors about body |
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Philosophers have misinterpreted certain opinions of common sense about bodies |
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The Scholastics' interpretation of common sense opinions |
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Refutation of the sensists' prejudice that one being cannot in-exist in another |
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Agreement between this chapter and the preceding chapter |
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| Matter |
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| The Intimate Union Between That Which Feels And That Which Is Feelable |
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| Clarification Of The Definition Of Life |
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| The Governing Principle Of Medicine |
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| Other Important Questions Arising From The Relationship Between The Feeling Soul And The Body |
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The more important questions |
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The first question: is the term of feeling the first elements or organised bodies? |
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The second question: are the molecules of a first,second or higher organisation the term of feeling? |
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Comments on the third question: is the term of feeling a fluid or solid? |
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The fourth question: does the term of feeling require unity? |
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The fifth question: is continual movement the term of feeling? |
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| Thoughts On The Communication Of Life |
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Animate beings are part of nature; they do not result from the amalgamation of their elements |
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The law of conservation governing animate being |
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Nutrition |
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Animal growth |
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Generation |
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A difficulty arising from the simplicity of the feeling principle |
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How new discoveries can perfect the given definition of animal |
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| Description Of The Faculty Of Phantasy |
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| The Power Of Phantasy In Dreams |
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| The Way We Think Of The Imagination (Cont) |
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