 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 pages
...that anticipates much of Campbell's theory. James described "the highest order of minds" in this way: Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following...rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard-of combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy; in a word, we seem suddenly... | |
 | William H. Calvin - 1998 - 266 pages
...GOULD, 1994 Instead or thoughts or concrete things patiently following one another in a beaten track or habitual suggestion, we have the most abrupt cross-cuts...rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard-of combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy; in a word, we seem suddenly... | |
 | Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, David John Chalmers - 1999 - 532 pages
...transitions from one mental state to another, those dynamics that William James described in 1880: Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following...rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard-of combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy; in a word, we seem suddenly... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - 1999 - 508 pages
...(1880), who understood the rarity of ideational complexity: Instead of thoughts of concrete tiiings patiently following one another in a beaten track...suggestion, we have the most abrupt cross-cuts and traimtions from one idea to another . . . the most unheard-of 'coinbinations of elements, the subtlest... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1999 - 321 pages
...individuals. For example, earlier I quoted William James as observing how creative minds do not have "thoughts of concrete things patiently following one...another in a beaten track of habitual suggestion." On the contrary, their intellects exhibit "the most abrupt cross-cuts and transitions from one idea... | |
 | William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton - 2000 - 318 pages
...to a new one, all without a central stage, with all the dynamics described in 1880 by William James: Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following...rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard-of combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy; in a word, we seem suddenly... | |
 | Stephen J Kraus, Stephen Kraus - 2002 - 198 pages
...order of minds" is precisely the kind of thinking that we will try to bring about in our Vision quest: "Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently...rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard-of-combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy; in a word, we seem suddenly... | |
 | MOHANDAS MOSES - 2005 - 428 pages
...following one another on a beaten track of habitual suggestion, we have the most abrupt cross cuts and transitions from one idea to another, the most...abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard of combinations of elements, the subtlest associations of analogy, in a word, we seem to be suddenly introduced... | |
 | James C. Kaufman, John Baer - 2006
...involving unions of ideas that are brought together or broken in an instant, where habit is disregarded. Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following...beaten track of habitual suggestion, we have the most rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard of combination of elements, the subtlest... | |
 | Robert W. Weisberg - 2006 - 643 pages
...involving associations that can be brought together or broken in an instant, where habit is disregarded. Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following...beaten track of habitual suggestion, we have the most rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most unheard of combination of elements, the subtlest... | |
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Instead of thoughts of concrete things patiently following one another in a beaten track of habitual suggestion, we have the most abrupt cross-cuts and transitions from one idea to another, the most rarefied abstractions and discriminations, the most... 
