Body and mind; a history and a defence of animism (1920)
McDougall, William, 1871-1938 · The Macmillan company · leaf 331
) in response to a givencomplex of cerebral influences. But now let us complicate the case ; instead of a single pointof light, let there be four occupying the corners of a square.Then the perception (i.e. the consciousness of the subject at themoment of perceiving) has a richer spatial meaning ;… … Fig. 13. which is more or less rich according to the degree of geometricalknowledge of the subject and the degree of attention paid by himto the impressions. And it would be manifestly absurd to saythat this meaning consists of the kinaesthetic sensations clusteringround each of the visual…
Mind and body · Animism
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