Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.


Ch. 12 - The Principles of Psychology (1890)

William James Quotes

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again....

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again....

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again....

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again....