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25 July 1814 '.2 1 + Logic
25 July 1814 '.2 1 +

Logic

Ch.3.IV. Operations

'.2. Class 1. Subjects Single

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'.2. Class 1. Operations in which the Subject is taken Singly, enters, and without necessity of regard to any other than present time, viz. 1. Perception, Conception or Apprehension. 2. Attention.

{I. Mental Operations} Class I. Operations in the performance of which the subject is considered as being regarded entirely, i.e. in an entire state, and at the same time singly, i.e. not in conjunction with others - without regard to past or future time, and without regard to any person other than the person he himself by whom the operation is considered as performed.-

1. Perception - Conception - Apprehension.- When perception has place, the source or perceptible object from whence it is derived being an individual portion of matter, in a real, a real corporeal entity - (a being coming under the denomination of body - of a body -) impressions are at the time in question made on Sense: on some one or more of all the senses, to the cognizance of which the object stands exposed: of the perception thereupon obtained, these impressions are the immediate object and subject: the body itself - i.e. the existence of it, is but, in a secondary and comparatively remote way, the object or subject of perception: of this supposed source of the perceptions that are experienced, the existence is, strictly speaking, rather a subject of inference than of perception: of inferance,[?] judgment, ratiocination, which is liable to be erroneous, and in experience is very frequently found to be so.

{ Give example}

Scarce does a perception take place, but it is accompanied - accompanied generally - without any consciousness of, because without any reflection on - without any attention paid to it, accompanied with a corresponding judgment or act of the judgment, of the judicial faculty.
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    At the time when the perception takes place, the mind may either be more or less active or purely passive in relation to it: it is only in so far as it is more or less active that any operation can, with propriety be said to be performed.

    If the mind be purely passive, the perception is the work of the simply perceptive - a branch of the intellectual faculty: if in any mode or degree the mind be active, in so far the will, the volitional faculty bears a part in the production of it.

    Conception is a word which is frequently employed to express the same import as in the expression of which the word perception would be employed to express. In common usage the distinction is altogether unsettled. Where any marked distinction is observed, it is to the word conception that the largest and most complex sense seems commonly to be assigned: while impressions alone are considered as the objects of perception, conception is considered as having for its objects ideas, simple ideas the copies of these expressions - the things signified by the signs of which discourse is composed - ex. gr. the import of entire propositions - of a discourse composed of such propositions in any multitude - or even that of single words. In this word intimation is given of a certain degree of complexity in the object denoted by it is but the natural effect of the first syllable.

    By the word apprehension, at least if its etymology be considered, intimation is conveyed not only of action, activity, but of some certain degree of exertion - of effort: pretendo - appretendo[?] - to lay hold of.