Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: men, in dreams, ons and the hallu, significant instan t and especially evidence, and of i out the whole t stance beyond the -e mental world, -jpal parts of the t Jecular nervous chai cases, borrowed bo physiologists, hav process of illusio stages constitute o t 2r this, to elucidate xirselves, valuable in found and closely i and Stuart ft have lost limbs, i senses, in the educ who have recovi ; singular alterations i : sleep, hypnotism, and cuter upon the exar it ions which makeup ifit by Mr. Mill's ng Induction, to estal y of necessary propo what is termed the le with general i cfore the meta] Vis conceived very close, plied to me the total tr :orgr PBEFACE. Ip I am not mistaken, we mean now-a-days by Intelligence, what was formerly called Understanding or Intellect—that is to say, the faculty of knowing; this, at least, is the sense in which I have taken the word. At all events, I here intend to examine our knowledge, that is to say, our cognitions, and nothing else. The words faculty, capacity, power, which have played so great a part in psychology, are only, as we shall see, convenient names by means of which we put together, in distinct compartments, all facts of a distinct kind; these names indicate a character common to all the facts under a distinct heading; they do not indicate a mysterious and profound essence, remaining constant and hidden under the flow of transient facts. This is why I have treated of cognitions only, and, if I have mentioned faculties, it has been to show that in themselves, and as distinct entities, they do not exist. Such a precaution as this is very necessary. By means of it, psychology becomes a science of facts; for our cognitions are facts ; we can speak with precision and detail of a sensation, of an idea, of a recolle...