185 definitions
The book's index
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume II
118 concepts · 185 definitions
- agreement1
- amazement2
- ape1
- aspect4
- aspect seeing2
- aspect-blindness1
- attention1
- behavior1
- belief6
- bet1
- certainty1
- child1
- cinema1
- classification1
- code word1
- color2
- communication1
- conditional1
- confession1
- contradiction1
- conversation1
- conviction1
- counting1
- couvade1
- credibility1
- crying1
- culture1
- cunning1
- deceit1
- decision2
- depth1
- disgust1
- dog1
- doubt3
- dread3
- emotion2
- Euclidean geometry1
- excitement1
- experience1
- face1
- facial expression1
- family resemblance1
- fear5
- fiction1
- fly1
- friendliness1
- gait1
- genuineness1
- germ1
- grasshopper1
- grey1
- grief1
- hesitation2
- hope2
- image4
- imagination7
- indeterminacy1
- inner life1
- inquiry1
- instinct1
- intention4
- interpretation2
Thinking (n.) can happen without words: an intelligent beast heading off without the object, then turning back as if to say oh, I forgot.
Thinking (n.) is a widely ramified concept, like a traffic network connecting many out-of-the-way places.
Thinking (n.) is not behaviour: leave me alone, I'm thinking does not mean leave me alone, I'm behaving thus.
Thinking (n.) is not a kind of speaking, as Wittgenstein once said; the concepts differ in category, and thinking accompanies neither speech nor any process.
Seeing (n.) is a tangled concept because it is tangled: the ranging gaze, the sharp and the hazy, how ragged what we see can appear.
Seeing (n.) cannot be confirmed of men as one confirms that birds fly; men see — as opposed to what? that they are all blind?
Seeing (n.) puzzles us in parts because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
Seeing (n.) shows in phenomena: exact observation, being dazzled, the look of joyous surprise, turning away so as not to see.
Imagination (n.) is needed to hear something as a variation on a theme, and yet one perceives something in so hearing it.
Imagination (n.) speaks in phrases like shut my eyes and there he is, which may be not learned but poetically formed, and seem just right to one person, then the next.
Imagination (n.) can contribute to knowledge, as we calculate in the imagination.
Imagination (n.) is needed to see a boulder suddenly as a man, a face here, feet there, unlike recognising a lifelike picture of a dog.
Belief (n.) as a symptom: I always believe I hear voices; I always suppose he is unfaithful, but he isn't — here the concept seems to break off abruptly.
Belief (n.) is no occupation with its object, as fear, longing and hope are.
Belief (n.) never doubles in the first person: I believe I believe is never said, though I believe he believes is.
Belief (n.) held with all one's heart differs from knowing not in the believer's certainty but in the logic of the question.
Knowing (n.) and hearing differ so enormously in occasion and use that the difficulty is finding a basis for comparison, not a difference.
Knowing (n.) that it's raining is said not to report the rain but to answer a report that has been questioned.
Knowing (n.) can mean being able, as knowing by heart, or being sure.
Knowing (n.) where a path leads is possessing something — and one can add, but I'm not telling.
Fear (n.) unknown to someone would leave him watching a tragedy without understanding it — we shudder with another, though we have nothing to fear.
Fear (n.) behaviour (n.) on fearful occasions is a phenomenon of our life; but fear itself?
Fear (n.) reported in detail over a whole day and fear uttered now as a groan are mixed together in 'I am afraid', and that is simply the use of the word.
Fear (n.) uttered as I'm afraid! and reported as I'm afraid differ in purpose.
An Aspect (n.) presents a physiognomy that then passes away, as if a face were there that I first imitate and then accept without imitating.
An Aspect (n.) is subject to the will — see this circle as a hole, not a disc — but never see it as red: not an empirical proposition.
An Aspect (n.) is like a value that can be the limit of different series; a triangle can really serve as a mountain or an arrow.
An Aspect (n.) is tied to imagination: someone blind to surface and base might lack, not absurdly, the power of imagination.
Pain (n.) is embedded in our life by definite connections, as a king's move exists only in chess — the eye smiles only within a face.
Pain (n.) can be recognised only by externals; the uncertainty is constitutional, not a shortcoming — it lies in our instrument.
Pain (n.) is something everyone knows he has? To know that, each would have to know that all have the same.
Pain (n.) has an exact degree no one knows in another, so it could be zero, the argument runs; but does he know the exact degree of his own?
An Image (n.) and an impression do not look different; one concept resembles that of an action, the other does not.
Image (n.) often beset us against our will and refuse to be banished — yet the will can struggle with them.
An Image (n.) is of N. N. because I mean him, even if it is wrong, not by its likeness.
An Image (n.) can seem a dull reflection of sense impressions, yet someone's eyesight can be so poor that his image of a man is clearer than the sight of him.
An Intention (n.) does not require a plan.
Intention (n.) can break out — I can't stand it any more, I want to go! — which differs from planning next year's trip.
Intention (n.) is no experience — it has no content of its own — and yet not a disposition like knowing, since it was present when I spoke.
Intention (n.) has no cry, as knowledge and belief have none; but the decision with which it often begins may be called an experience.