Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... become more apparent when the work as a whole shall have been completed . Therefore it is that in the present volume I have endeavoured , as far as the nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote ...
... become more apparent when the work as a whole shall have been completed . Therefore it is that in the present volume I have endeavoured , as far as the nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote ...
Pagina 5
... become amenable to the test in question , it has probably begun to dawn as nascent sub- jectivity . In other words , because a lowly organised animal does not learn by its own individual experience , we may not therefore conclude that ...
... become amenable to the test in question , it has probably begun to dawn as nascent sub- jectivity . In other words , because a lowly organised animal does not learn by its own individual experience , we may not therefore conclude that ...
Pagina 6
... become assimilated with the objective so as to learn by direct feeling the mental processes which there accompany the objective activities , it is clearly impossible to satisfy any one who may choose to doubt the validity of inference ...
... become assimilated with the objective so as to learn by direct feeling the mental processes which there accompany the objective activities , it is clearly impossible to satisfy any one who may choose to doubt the validity of inference ...
Pagina 8
... become fewer and less definite the lower we descend through the structure of mind It is not my object in the present work to enter upon any analysis of the operations of mind , as this will require to be done as fully as possible in my ...
... become fewer and less definite the lower we descend through the structure of mind It is not my object in the present work to enter upon any analysis of the operations of mind , as this will require to be done as fully as possible in my ...
Pagina 16
... of conscious deliberation which the two processes respectively involve . Instinctive actions are actions which , owing to their frequent repetition , become so habitual in the course of generations that all the 16 INTRODUCTION .
... of conscious deliberation which the two processes respectively involve . Instinctive actions are actions which , owing to their frequent repetition , become so habitual in the course of generations that all the 16 INTRODUCTION .
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression, as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.