 Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind— without...  Lessons in Psychology - Page 163by Elizabeth Helen Hannahs - 1908 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies in every creature, but without it the... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 718 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies in every * Bain mentions attention in... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies in every • Bain mentions attention... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1897 - 522 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground, — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies with every creature, but without it... | |
 | Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1910 - 810 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies in every creature, but without it the... | |
 | Elise A. Seyfarth, Emmy R. Turner - 1921 - 272 pages
...experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without elective interest experience is an utter chaos. Interest alone...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective in a word. It varies in every creature but without it the consciousness... | |
 | Jacobus van der Laan - 1922 - 158 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective in a word. (Spencer and other empiricist writers regard the... | |
 | Eugenio Rignano - 1923 - 414 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind. Without selective interest experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word."3 The primary affectivity of a state of attention... | |
 | 1921 - 298 pages
...experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind—without elective interest experience is an utter chaos. Interest alone...perspective in a word. It varies in every creature but without it the consciousness of every creature would be a gray chaotic indiscriminateness impossible... | |
 | Charles Edward Skinner, Ira Morris Gast, Harley Clay Skinner - 1926 - 882 pages
...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience is an utter...accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground — intelligible perspective, in a word. It varies in every creature, but without it the... | |
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