Outlines of Psychology : Dictated Portions of Thelectures of Hermann Lotze
Outlines of Psychology : Dictated Portions of Thelectures of Hermann Lotze
George Trumbull Ladd
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§ 23. It is important to make it obvious that all these new ideas, which we may designate as ideas of a higher order, by no means arise as result- ants from a mere reciprocal action of the original simple ideas, in the same way as a third motion is constructed in mechanics from the coincidence of two others. Digitized by Google 42 OUTLINES OF PSYCh6lOGY. The foregoing analogy by no means holds good in the spiritual domain. The rather are both the im- pressions a and b always to be regarded mere...ly as stimuli, that act upon the entire peculiar and * monadic ' nature of an ideating subject, and stir up as a reaction in this subject the activity by means of which the new ideas, — for example, of similarity, likeness, contrast, etc., — originate ; nor would such ideas, without the excitation of this new spiritual activity, originate from the mere co-working of the single impressions. § 24. In the same manner as the aforesaid new ideas does all that originate which we designate as 'general notions.* It is customary to assert that those factors of the ideas compared, which are of unlike kind, annul each other by their opposition, and that the remainder which is of like kind then, of itself alone, exhibits the so-called "general" factor.
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