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: LECTURE III COGNITIONâ??THE GROWTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS In this lecture we have to consider what Cognition is from the point of view of Psychology ; in other words, we have to consider the development of a world as it takes place de facto. The question of the validity of the cognition does not primarily concern us. In our next lecture we shall consider more in detail the processes by which Cognition develops. Our criticism of the doctrine of Association may be supplemented by contrasting the term itself with such terms as "community," "corporation," or " unity." It implies that the view taken is of independent units, which are the same in the combination as out of it, and are tied or linked as such by Association ; and historically it really originated in such a view. The general truth implied in it is, that phases of the soul, such as presentations, can be traced in time, and that a sort of causation, or at least a natural sequence, can be observed in them ; the real principle being, however, not a linking of units, but organisation by identities of content. Our starting-point, then, must be different from that assumed by the doctrine of Association strictlytaken. It must be a continuous presentation, to be described either as feeling, or, as others would say, as having the three aspects of feeling, conation, and sensation (or cognition). The conception is that of a direct experience which is a multiplicity of determinations, but does not distinguish them ; a state prior to consciousness, and also continuing as one side of consciousness. The question is important as an attempt to get something which embraces our whole psychosis as a single experienceâ??as ourself. Then, if we call it Feeling, it is not feeling in the sense of mere Pleasure or Pain. But there is not a very great ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.