| P |
| Pain, |
and pity, 19
f.; (part of page 18 moved to page 19)
as sign of future reaction, 33;
intensity of, 35
f.;
Darwin on, 37;
conceived as distinct thing, 159. |
| Paradox, |
the Eleatic, 74,
113 f., 240.
(part of page 112 moved to page 113) |
| Parallelism, |
of physical and psychical series, 146
f. |
| Paralysis, |
and feeling of effort, 21,
22. |
| Past, |
no recurrence of, 154,
200 f., 219,
232, 233,
239. |
| Paul, |
his prediction of Peter's action, 184
ff. |
| Pendulum, |
counting oscillations of, 104
f.;
what do oscillations of, measure, 107
ff.;
oscillations of, help to cut up our psychic life, 109;
spreads out undivided tension of spring, 228. |
| Permeation, |
see Interpenetration. |
| Peter, |
Paul's prediction of his action, 184
ff. |
| Photometric experiments, |
52
ff. |
| Physics, |
and sound-vibrations, 46;
and degrees of luminous intensity, 52
f.;
interested in external cause, 71;
physical phenomena and law, 202;
Cartesian, 207,
208;
Descartes' instantaneous, 208;
and forecasting of phenomena, 222,
230. |
| Pillon, F., |
article on number and space, 75
n. |
| Pitch, |
of a sound, 44
f. |
| Plateau, |
his method of measuring luminous sensation, 56. |
| Plato, |
quoted, 168;
Platonic reminiscence, 234. |
| Pleasure, |
as sign of future reaction, 33
f.;
and bodily inclination, 38;
keenness of, as inertia of organism, 38;
conceived a distinct thing, 159. |
| Poetry, |
how effects produced, 15. |
| "Possible acts," |
174
f., 239. |
| Postulate, |
Delbœuf's, 60;
Fechner's, 60;
fundamental, of psychophysics, 65,
70;
underlying geometrical representation of voluntary activity,
179. |
| Prediction, |
astronomical, 116,
192 ff., 198;
(part of page 117 moved to page 116)
determinism and, 173,
183 ff., 220;
real duration and, 183
ff.;
of future actions, 183
ff., 229, 239;
probable and infallible, 183
f.;
and character, 184,
172;
hypothetical case of Peter and Paul, 184
ff.;
all foreseeing as seeing, 195,
197, 198;
of phenomena, and physics, 222,
230. |
| Prefiguring, |
of future phenomenon in present conditions, 204 ff., 210;
two kinds of , 204
ff., 215;
as in mathematics, 204
f.;
as having idea of possible future act, 211
f. |
| Pressure, |
sensation of, 48
f. (part of page 47 moved to page 48) |
| Process, |
motion as a, 111;
conscious states not things but, 131,
196;
misleading to substitute material symbol for, 190;
cannot be analysed, 210,
219. (We added
page 219; explicit statement of his axiom there.) |
| Progress, |
motion as a, 111;
not divisible, 112;
cannot be represented by geometrical figure, 181;
misleading to substitute material symbol for, 190;
psychic state as a, 198;
from idea to act, 211. |
| Providence, |
Descartes and grace of, 208. |
| Psychology, |
descriptive, limits of, 139;
sometimes misled by language,
165;
deals with intervals of duration and not their extremities, 196;
modern, and perception through subjective forms, 222. |
| Psychophysics, |
and measurement of sensations, 1,
55 ff.;
measurement of intensity of light, 52
ff.;
Delbœuf's experiments, 52,
56, 58
f., 67 f.;
method of mean gradations, 56,
59, 67,
69;
method of minimum differences, 64
f., 69;
Delbœuf's postulate, 60;
Weber's Law, 61;
(part of page 60 moved to page 61)
all, involved in transition from stimulus to amount of sensation,
61;
Fechner's Law, 61
f.;
postulate of, 65,
70;
fallacy of all, 65
f., 70;
exaggerations of , 225. |
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