Suggestion

Keyword: Suggestion


Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "Forms of Consciousness [R]"

I have spoken of the first kind of medisense, abstraction, which breaks one idea away from another. There is an opposite influence by which when one idea has its...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit"

According to those rules I am bound to use scientific terms in the senses in which they first became terms of science. Accordingly, the English associationalists having first made association...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas"

What is, far more than unyielding uniformity, characteristic of the phenomenon of suggestion, as the calling up of an idea through association is called, is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

The great founders of associationalism and of scientific psychology (after Aristotle), the Rev. Mr. Gay and Dr. David Hartley, usefully limited the term “association” to the process whereby one...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critics"

I follow the usage of the early associationalists, Gay, Hartley, etc., in confining the term “association” to the storing away, in our spiritual or physical organisms, [of] ideas that, when so...