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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...uld not serve to obscure the issues and derail rational debate. As a result, it is logical to introduce the notion of "positive aberration". Certai... ...ific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. Psychologica... ...ued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequences of her actions - was never impaired. It would seem ... ...: a series of potentialities with attached probabilities, the potentials being the logically and physically possible products. What can we learn ... ...stitute a theory and produce falsifiable predictions. A metaphor is also subject to logical and aesthetic rules and to the rigors of the scientific ... ... related to the protagonist and those pertaining to the rest of the universe). d. Logically compatible – It must not violate the laws of logic bot... ... outcomes of appropriately designed experiments. Their explanatory powers are of no consequence. Positivists ascribe meaning only to statements that...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... and apparently indorsed by the people at an election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dre... ...labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be dis- charged from such serv...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...any various volumes, is bound, above all things, to make that condensation logical and striking. For the only justification of his writing at all is t... ...fault, as all of us do, and openly overtaken, as not all of us are, by its consequences, to gloss the matter over, with too polite biographers, is to ... ...lainly, what every one well knows, of Burns’s profligacy, and of the fatal consequences of his marriage. And for this there are perhaps two subsidiary... ...r represent an act that was vir- tuous in itself, as attended by any other consequences than a large family and fortune. To hint that Burns’s marriage... ...timidly made elsewhere, have in them been carried boldly out to their last consequences; much that was indefinite in literary tenden- cies has attaine... ...from another point of view – to reproduce a colour, a sound, an outline, a logical argument, a physical action. He can show his readers, behind and ar... ...e nature of tragedy. The gospel according to Whitman, even if it be not so logical, has this advantage over the gospel according to Pangloss, that it ... ... the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murder- ous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possible words went irrevoc... ... afternoon, or at morning as he lay awake in bed. With our deeper and more logical sense of life, we can have no idea how large a space in the attenti...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... erate care, and none ever had more certificates for less edu- cation. One consequence, however, of my system is that I have much less to say of Profe... ...n- sole; books of a large design, shadowing the complexity of that game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least. But the a... ...ng them indeed; but when they were done, I could see they were rubbish. In consequence, I very rarely showed them even to my friends; and such friends... ...r and answer arguments, not only with natural wisdom, but with candour and logical honesty. But if the subject of debate be something in the air, an a... ...t of debate be something in the air, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he ma...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...fy and explain one's conduct or, more often, misconduct by resorting to ":rational, logical, socially- acceptable" explications and excuses. Rational... ...h fluid shifts in meanings permit the narcissistic personality to maintain apparent logical consistency while minimising evil or weakness and exagge... ...ing, feelings of omnipotence and omniscience and a belief in their immunity to the consequences of their actions. These elements and the child's fe... ... in the chronological sense. But it is also an adaptative strategy. The emotional consequences of rejection and abuse are too difficult to contemp... ...later on in life. Birth, according to this school of thought is of no psychological consequence to the newborn baby. It is immeasurably more importa... ...esence. The narcissist's thinking is magical and infantile. He feels immune to the consequences of his own actions. Yet, this very source of appare... ...associated with child abuse and its horrific, long-lasting, and often irreversible consequences. Incest is not such a clear-cut matter as it has be... ...ific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. Psychologica...

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Theory of the Person

By: Antonio Mercurio

...ype of destruction that society has inflicted on women’s bodies. 9 The consequence has been that intrauterine life, for both women and men, is no... ...hate deadlock, and they were overcome by desperation, with its most direct consequence: suicide. In this situation, we see this problem acted out in... ...t in this life, on this earth. The important thing is that joy is a direct consequence of love and love implies a transformation. Isn’t it true that... ... ambivalent position towards their mothers, from birth onward. The possible consequences are either desperation, caused by a lack of faith that this ... ...at else are neurosis, psychosis, psychosomatic illness etc. except for the consequences we pay for having had to submit to the demands of the Psycho... ...e as a therapeutic process becomes like a regression, it breaks with every logical process. While you were talking, I was thinking about R. Laing’s ...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...dmit that would spoil the magic. And that I couldn't bear. So I proclaim that what I do is of no consequence and no different from what others do, a... ...of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious.... ...mity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality – the immediate and later consequences of her actions – was never impaired. ... ...omes unscrupulous, never bothered by the constant exploitation of his milieu, indifferent to the consequences of his actions, to the damage and the ... ...e would rather discern disapproval and unjustified criticism where there are none then face the consequences of being caught off-guard. The narciss... ...h the full knowledge that we are not wanted, despised even. We persist and pursue no matter the consequences, no matter the cost. I am an 'inverted... ...ist often hangs himself by his own verbose Gordic knots, having stumbled through a minefield of logical fallacies and endured self- inflicted incons...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...cealed and absurd. Something, that is dissimulated under the level of the logical acceptance, jumps out abruptly in the main point to consider and c... ... the soundness of their example, a not counterfeited generalization. As a consequence, there become cultivated banality and narrative style, public ... ...modernist, is surpassed, in our own case, by the proper concretion of its consequences: undermining of the unidirectional gravity, encircling of the ... ... Giovani Vattimo calls the weak thought - a slackening, a lessening of the logical normativeness, of the emphasis of the existence, of the scientific... ...silence, or illuminating silence. What results from this is the shortened consequence of an inner ecstatic travel. If deductive writings generally... ... the theory, paradoxism spiritualizes the writing by another way than the logical and consecutive one, that it substitutes with a spontaneity of the ... ...ures. First view: the trade in art. The intentional substitution claims a logical artifice: if in the paradoxist books the reader finds all that doe... ...haracter of movement - of the initiator theoretician and literary man. In consequence it is about a passing, in the economy of the whole work, from ... ...xism (which I have reproduced in another chapter of the present book). In consequence and in consensus with his new directives, the largest part of ...

...the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something concealed and absurd. Something, that is dissimulated under the level of the logical acceptance, jumps out abruptly in the main point to consider and constrains to acknowledgment. It looks as if it were an error, but not so big as to take alarm and not even to be clearly inhibited. It is a mechanism...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... is null and void. Any actions which are intended to terminate it and to annul its consequences should be legally and morally permissible. The sam... ...atements cannot be derived with certainty from any negative statement. This formal-logical trait reflects a deep psychological reality with unsettl... ...t. This formal-logical trait reflects a deep psychological reality with unsettling consequences. A positive statement about one's affiliation ("I ... ...nd self-aggrandizement, and the reification and embodiment of said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political sy... ...ute them. They dedicate all their attention to the immediate and ignore the future consequences of their actions. In other words, their attention a... ...g and, therefore, regards himself as omnipotent, omniscient and protected from the consequences of his own acts (immune) – the personality disorder... ...: a series of potentialities with attached probabilities, the potentials being the logically and physically possible products. What can we learn a... ...stitute a theory and produce falsifiable predictions. A metaphor is also subject to logical and aesthetic rules and to the rigors of the scientific ... ...its inclusion in the definer) is the very definition of a tautology, the gravest of logical fallacies. On the other hand: if such an external sour...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

...onship to each other of objects 10 therein – essential in essence to our logical comprehension of our physical location in relation to the world,... ...tioning on a physical level with our reality. Cause precedes effect in a “logical” fashion which enables us to predict and interact with our enviro... ... – out of time as we know it – and therefore experience at first hand the consequences of their own actions. Many people come away from this r... ...ave undergone N.D.E.s say that time is greatly compressed, as if it has no logical meaning. A description of time in this realm, wherever it is, is...

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Confidence

By: Henry James

...er of conscience? Was she in love with Gordon Wright, and did she wish, in consequence, to forget—and wish him not to suspect—that she had ever receiv... ...leave Miss Vivian—that is, to return to the charge or to give up trying—in consequence of my fresh impression?” Gordon seemed perfectly unembarrassed ... ...t in the light of Gordon’s requirements. There was all this time an absurd logical twist in his view of things. In the first place he was not to judge... ...s one that in turn I have a right to ask you. What do you propose to do in consequence of what I have told you?” “I propose to do nothing.” This decla... ...r, G.W. “P.S. It is perhaps as well that I should say that I am leaving in consequence of something that happened last evening, but not—by any traceab... ...have been traceable. It had simply affected his imagina- tion, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort. This view of the case was supported b...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...can think our way into our behavior. I would certainly like to believe her, but the evidence points to the fact that we are psychological, not logica... ...ave probably heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logica... ...n imaging is giving us pictures of how the brain will react. Imaging often shows us that the brain will react in ways quite different from the logica... ...te different from the logical rules that we think of as our unique human ability. The limbic system in the brain often takes priority over the logica... ... 11 ―Most of don‘t want to believe it but we are psychological—not logica... ...action. So in setting both long and short term goals many of us would profit by looking at all of the options and thinking seriously about the conseq...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...he could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of ... ...me in ecclesiastical, and perhaps found themselves surprisingly grouped in consequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmn... ... many patients among their connections and ac- quaintances. For who of any consequence in Middlemarch was not connected or at least acquainted with th... ...appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality,” said Rosamond, turning her head towards Mary, but ... ... He saw no way of eluding Featherstone’s stupid demand with- out incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. His f... ... all: the result of the struggle is the same thing—pic- ture or no picture—logically.” Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud ... ...urse it is,” said Will, impatiently. “But if you are to wait till we get a logical Bill, you must put yourself forward as a revolutionist, and then Mi...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...he could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of dra... ...appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality,” said Rosamond, turning her head towards Mary, but ... ... He saw no way of eluding Feath erstone’s stupid demand without incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. His fa... ...y Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors. I n consequence of what he had heard from Fred, Mr. Vincy determined to speak w... ...nothing but in giving him extravagant idle habits. You are now reaping the consequences.” To point out other people’s errors was a duty that Mr. Bulst... ... all: the result of the struggle is the same thing— picture or no picture— logically.” Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud ... ...urse it is,” said Will, impatiently. “But if you are to wait till we get a logical Bill, you must put yourself forward as a revolutionist, and then Mi...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to recognize this fact distinctly ... ...th the same eye with which he looks on all other natural things, since the consequences of our affections flow from their nature with the same necessi... ...; but at any rate it has become profoundly uninstructive: we can deduce no consequences from it which help us to interpret religion’s meaning or value... ...n environment which re- fuses to bear them out for any length of time. The consequence of this discrepancy of the two criteria is the uncertainty whic... ...or them here, and hold their own against inferences which, in mere love of logical consistency, medical materialism ought to be only too glad to draw.... ...lternation, we see that it probably contains nothing whatever of a psycho- logically specific nature. There is religious fear, reli- gious love, relig... ...rd “religion” would be inconvenient, however defensible it might remain on logical grounds. There are trifling, sneering atti- tudes even toward the w... ...ess and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else. This enchantment, coming as a gift ... ...ic philosopher, Father Gratry, in his au- tobiographical recollections. In consequence of mental isolation and excessive study at the Polytechnic scho...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...ial. Their world consists of “events,” from which “matter” is derived by a logical construction. Whoever reads, for example, Professor Eddington’s “Sp... ...what Meinong calls the act in thinking is not empirically discoverable, or logically de- ducible from what we can observe. The next point of criticism... ...ain es- sential relation to the past event which it remembers. There is no logical objection to this theory, but there is the objection, which we spok... ...f the hysteric or lunatic can be made to face the facts about himself. The consequence of this is that the treatment of many forms of insanity has gro... ...m conscious- ness), hence we try to explain censorship along ordinary bio- logical lines. We believe that one group of habits can ‘down’ another group... ... acting with- out foresight in a manner which is usually advantageous bio- logically. It is partly for this reason that it is so important to understa... ... out, very truly, that the same stimulus, repeated, does not have the same consequences, and he argues that this is contrary to the maxim, “same cause... ... single observer. It changed after the publication of his “Psychology,” in consequence of his abandoning the dualism of thought and things. Dunlap sum... ...ittle help: it is necessary to construct hypotheses and test them by their consequences, just as we do in physical science. Introspection, therefore, ...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...itted that vengeance and punishment went together, they were at least more logical, for executions were in the open light of day so all might see and ... ...quirements that the young should visit prisons that they might realize the consequences of crime, and that all execu- tions should be public and shoul... ...never be cata- logued because new ways are constantly coming to light. The logical end of all these indefinite and uncertain laws is to pass one statu... ...g families and friends of sorely needed money, and the direct and indirect consequences are sometimes small and sometimes very great. These can be rea... ...men. Even the legal tests as to insanity and feeble-mindedness are neither logical nor humane. Often the definition is given by courts that if one is ... ... teaching and moral suasion; those methods are too slow, and the evils and consequences of dis- belief are too great. Laws of this drastic character a... ...ent him from trying to do his part to restore sanity to the world. Another consequence of war which America is passing through is the spirit of super-... ...o that the species may be controlled. At first glance this seems to be the logical thing to do, especially as the effects of heredity can no more be d... ...cated, more accus- tomed to weighing evidence and able to arrive at a more logical conclusion than most juries. Still none of these quali- 166 ties n...

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