JB_101_119.xml

Title: [25 July 1814 Logic Ch.3.IV]

Description: 25 July 1814

Logic

Ch.3.IV. Operations

'.2.1 Subjects Single

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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.

JB_102_299.xml

Title: [2 Aug. 1814 M Logic Ch. End]

Description: 2 Aug. 1814 M

Logic

Ch. End &c.

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Of the cases in which /where/ the faculty the state of which is declared is the perceptive faculty - or of the case in which it is the retentive faculty no separate consideration need be made: for seldom indeed is either the perceptive or the retentive faculty in exercise or operated upon, but an act or exercise of the judicial faculty is performed /mixed with it/.

Remains for consideration the judicial faculty:

If /When/ concerning the state of the judicial faculty a declaration is expressed, the existence of a persuasion in some shape or other - an opinion, a belief in relation to some object or other, is thereby expressed.

{This object-} the declared subject of this persuasion - will be the state either of the communicator's own mind, or of some exterior object or aggregate of exterior objects - exterior viz. in relation to his own mind.

{Be} the portion of time in or in relation with reference to which the state of this exterior object or aggregate of objects is considered and declared, will, with reference to the portion of time in which the declaration is made be either present, past or future: or all those or any two of those portions of relative time.

The exterior objects concerning which such declaration is made will belong either to the class of persons or that of things, or to both these classes.

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JB_101_141.xml

Title: [1 Aug. 1814 Logic Ch.4.IV.V]

Description: 1 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch.4.IV.V.VI.VII. Functions &c.

'.1.IV. Faculties

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Originally active and derivatively active - under one or other of these appellations may be comprized every distinguishable modification of the active faculty of the human mind: to the head of the originally active faculty may be referred every exercise or determination of the will or say the volitional faculty when considered apart from any operation or act performed in consequence and pursuance of it. An instance of the exercise of the originally active faculty is a mere wish for the gratification of which, whether by reason of consciousness of want of power or at the suggestion of prudence nothing is done, no act is performed.

Physically active and psychically active - under one or other of these appellations may be comprized every modification of the derivatively active faculty: to the head of the physically active branch of this derivatively active faculty may be referred every human act in so far as any corporeal organ is employed in the exercise of it; to the psychologically active branch every human act in so far as the mind is employed in the exercise of it.

The observation made of and consideration bestowed upon these distinctions are exercises of the psychically active branch of the derivatively active faculty of the mind in the instance of him by whom these pages were composed: the committing to paper the signs of them in the form of a written discourse was an exercise of the physically active branch of the same derivatively active faculty, antecedently to the performance of these several operations, the determination taken to perform them was an exercise of the originally active faculty - the volitional.