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presentations as discrete facts, 213-215.XV111 CONTENTS.6. Influences favouring the presentationist bias.It is helped by certain tendencies implicit in the Herbartian Psychology, 215- 218 ; it harmonises with the prevalent tendency to lay supreme stress on the physiological 'explanation' of mental facts, 218, 219.7. It avoids the supposed difficulty of explaining our awareness of feeling and will, when (as above) these are regarded as more than mere qualities of sensations and other contents of the field of consciousness, 219-222.Our knowledge of them cannot be merely inferential, 222, 223.This question is part of a much wider one, the real nature of self-knowledge, the nature which runs through all its forms, 223, 224.8.The distinction of a ' pure ' and an ' empirical ' ego only con- fuses the issue, 225, 226.The consciousness of self as identical or permanent is not explained by pointing out the successive stages in the development of its material, 227, 228.The meaning of personal identity is not invalidated by the normal or abnormal interruptions in the continuity of consciousness or by the diseases of personality, 231-234.APPENDIX.SOME PROBLEMS IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FEELING.i. Whether feeling is the same as sentience, or includes more than pure pleasure and pain, 235-237.Whether we may sup- pose that there is a neutral feeling, 237, 238.2. Provisional classification, leading to a distinction between material and formal feelings : comparison of this with the distinction between anoetic and noetic consciousness, 239-241.3. Suggestion of the psychological difficulties arising out of the peculiar charac- teristics of the 'material' feelings, 241-245. The 'formal'feelings : psychological problem of the relation of feeling to its expression, the James-Lange theory, 245-250. 5. Derivative theory of emotion, depending on the assumption that feeling can be '

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