25 July 1814

Logic

Ch.3.IV. Operations

'.3.1 Subjects Single

1. Perception &c.

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2. Attention. This operation, as the etymology of the word intimates, has place in so far as by an act, by a more or less continued exertion of the will and the /psychology/ active faculty its servant, the mind is as it were fastened upon the object or subject from whence a perception or a[?] conception is derived to it: tendo, to stretch; attendo, to stretch upon.