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Excerpt from The British Journal of Psychology, 1914, Vol. 6
1. A variety of ways of handling the facts of attention has become familiar in the history of psychology. In the long run, however, they will all be found to fall under one or the other of two broadly contrasted modes of explanation which Lotze characterised in a well-known passage 3. On the one hand, attention has been depicted after the fashion of a varying power of illumination, a sort of waxing and waning light, which may be directed by the mind upon the several presentations it receives, and in accordance with the variations of which, other things remaining the same, will be the clearness, the precision, the complete ness in apprehension, of what is attended to. Lotze himself remarks upon the little help there is to be got from a View of this kind. By.
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1. A variety of ways of handling the facts of attention has become familiar in the history of psychology. In the long run, however, they will all be found to fall under one or the other of two broadly contrasted modes of explanation which Lotze characterised in a well-known passage 3. On the one hand, attention has been depicted after the fashion of a varying power of illumination, a sort of waxing and waning light, which may be directed by the mind upon the several presentations it receives, and in accordance with the variations of which, other things remaining the same, will be the clearness, the precision, the complete ness in apprehension, of what is attended to. Lotze himself remarks upon the little help there is to be got from a View of this kind. By.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - British Psychological Society
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ISBN - 9780267422043
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Page Count - 469
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Page Count - 471
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