192 definitions
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Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I
143 concepts · 192 definitions
- ability1
- ambiguity1
- anger1
- appreciation1
- Aristotelian logic1
- aspect5
- aspect seeing7
- association1
- astonishment1
- attention1
- behavior1
- belief4
- believing1
- blindness1
- brain1
- calculation1
- certainty1
- classification1
- color2
- complaint1
- concept formation1
- conditional1
- confession1
- connoisseur1
- constructed language1
- copy2
- counting1
- criteria1
- deception1
- decorum1
- definition1
- demonstration1
- detective fiction1
- diary1
- difference1
- dissimulation2
- dormant metaphor1
- dream2
- endearment1
- error1
- evidence1
- face1
- facial expression2
- fear3
- feeling3
- first person1
- first-person authority1
- function1
- future1
- gratitude1
- happiness1
- heart1
- hope2
- illusion1
- imagination1
- immediate experience1
- impression1
- incomprehensibility1
- inner life2
- inner monologue3
- intention1
- interjection1
- internal relation1
- interpretation2
- introspection2
- knowing2
- language game1
- letter1
- likeness1
- looking1
The Aspect seeing (n.) can be brought on, say by tracing facial lines; its expression is like surprise, and it fades unless called up again.
Aspect seeing (n.) has many forms sharing the expression now I see it as, though what this means differs radically case to case.
Aspect seeing (n.) can be missed: one who calls the same shape a duck in one picture and a rabbit in another saw both aspects but not the change.
Aspect seeing (n.) resembles thinking in lacking the consequences of perception, and so is akin to imagining.
An Aspect (n.) becomes something one is conscious of only in the change of aspect.
An Aspect (n.) does not match the organization of the object as colour matches colour, for it can vary while the same organization is looked at.
An Aspect (n.) is sometimes dominated by the conceptual, so its experience can be expressed only through a conceptual explanation.
An Aspect (n.) depends on the will, like imagination, since one can be told to look at it like this; yet seeing more closely is also willed.
Pretense (n.) is a pattern in the weave of life with endless variations; a dog cannot fake pain, its life too simple, lacking the joints for such moves.
Pretense (n.) has a root in a child screaming to be treated kindly, which is not yet pretence; a complex pattern must be learned first.
Pretense (n.) as a concept has more and less essential traits: change one and the word still applies, change another and it no longer does, and naming here is an attitude.
Pretense (n.) has an appearance of its own, more complex than that of suffering, which is why actors can play pretenders and pretence can be exposed.
Belief (n.) has a basis, the experiences, reports and relationships it rests on, like the old belief that the earth was a flat disc.
Belief (n.) differs from repeating to oneself he will come again and again; people might well have a separate verb for the latter.
Belief (n.) shown by answering yes again and again may be called a state, but the answer N. will return describes no state of the speaker.
Belief (n.) once taught in childhood, such as that plants feel pain, is later shed like a garment that no longer fits.
Philosophy (n.) is not a description of linguistic usage, yet one learns it by attending constantly to every expression of life in language.
Philosophy (n.) is the untangling of many knots.
Philosophy (n.) has to sort the propositions that only voice our mental inclinations from those that actually solve the problem.
Inner monologue (n.) is like tennis without a ball: rackets, manoeuvres and an umpire's eye, much like tennis yet fundamentally different.
Inner monologue (n.) belongs only to someone who can speak, since what is spoken silently can later be communicated.
Inner monologue (n.) is not half hidden but a confusing concept; it is an articulated event in time that can accompany an outer event.
Pretending (n.) and its opposite exist only where there is a complicated play of expressions, as false moves exist only in a game.
Pretending (n.) is beyond many creatures that express fear, joy or pain.
Pretending (n.) poses no threat to the concept of pain; it makes it more complicated, like the use of money.
Fear (n.) has a physiology, pulse, breathing and sweat, and play-acting fear may produce fear, though this is neither necessary nor essential.
Fear (n.) could have a concept reserved for animals whose word lacked a first person, used in the third person just like to fear.
Fear (n.) put into words as I am afraid can explain one's behaviour, said with a smile, and then is no groan at all.
A Feeling (n.) can be described, as we do every day; how is learned by thinking about particular cases.
A Feeling (n.) is placed by further description: a location, constancy or change, growing stronger or weaker, and links to other feelings.
Feeling (n.) attached to 'if' is perhaps just this word said in this tone and context, like an if-gesture of which the sound is a part.
Meaning (n.) seems unchanged whether a date is told as news or recited in an exam, since the words are explained the same way for both.
Meaning (n.) someone is not made by any accompanying event; a mental picture of him does no more than looking at him, and looking is not meaning.
Meaning (n.) is a primitive concept, at home in pointing and saying the word means this, and troubled once stretched to other words.