mnemic

If we are pure materialists and imagine every memory in our possession as something stamped, in some wholly incomprehensible manner, on some cell of our brain and looked at there, by some wholly inconceivable agency, when we sit down to think of past days, then we must look on the germ, under the "mnemic" or memory theory as consisting of fragments each of them impressed with the

Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

The principle of the prima facie credibility of mnemic presentation of past experience can't itself be justified inductively for Lewis, on pain of circularity.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

Father Brown & remorse beforehand continuous approximation to a perpetual peace a science fiction story about mnemic causation perhaps Borges-like

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

Father Brown & remorse beforehand continuous approximation to a perpetual peace a science fiction story about mnemic causation perhaps Borges-like

Dashed Off 2005

The dynamic continuity of psychological time is both unity and diversity; but it is neither the abstract homogeneous unity of mathe - matical time nor the dust-like multiplicity of the externally related durationless instants; it is the mnemic continuity in which no sharp separation can be drawn between the successive phases, despite their qualitative heterogeneity.

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

The mnemic theory then, if it is to be worth anything, seems to me clearly to require not merely physical records or

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Aside from the fact that it involves mnemic causation (direct and deterministic influence by past events) and a similar influence by the utility function (which really pertains to the future) - it is highly implausible.

Capitalistic Musings Samuel Vaknin

The mnemic theory will work for those who can accept a monadistic or pampsychist interpretation of the beings that make up the world, who believe with Spinoza and

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

In order to prove conclusively that mnemic phenomena arise whenever certain physiological conditions are fulfilled, we ought to be able actually to see differences between the brain of a man who speaks

The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

The only reason that could be validly alleged against mnemic causation would be that, in fact, all the phenomena can be explained without it.

The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921