In some forms of ideation we are more immediately aware of the presence of images than in others, but no idea--even the most abstract--can exist apart from an ultimate base.
It utilizes data of perception or of discursive ideationas need calls, just as an inventor now utilizes heat, now mechanical strain, now electricity, according to the demands set by his aim.
By receptual judgments I will understand the same order of ideation as Mr. Mivart expresses by his term “practical inferences of brutes,” instances of which have already been given in Chapter III.
For it manifestly ignores the whole problem which stands to be solved—namely, the genesis of those powers of ideation which first put a soul of meaning into the previously insignificant sounds.
How far, then, can this kind of unnamed or non-conceptional ideation extend?
But, if no such distinction is to be asserted here, neither can it be asserted anywhere else, until we arrive at the stage of human ideation where the mind is able to contemplate that ideation as such.
But can it be seriously maintained, in view of all the above considerations, that this rapid advance in the powers of connotative classification betokens any difference of kind between the ideation of the child and that of the bird?
Here I desire to consider them with reference to the quality of ideation that they betoken.
Of course in both cases conceptual thought is there: the ideation is human, though, comparatively speaking, immature.
That broken or complex lines have in ideation an advantage over straight or simple lines.
The dominance of the interrupted lines in ideation is evidently connected with the more varied and energetic activity which they excited in the contemplating mind.
That if, with material similar to that described in paragraph 12, the disconnected lines are arranged so as to be vertical and equidistant, the advantage in ideationstill remains with the disconnected lines, but is much reduced.
That of two objects to which attention is directed in succession, the object last seen has a distinct advantage in the course of ideation following close on the perception of the objects.
Clearly an important addition was made to the active processes implied in the ideation of a resting object, and it would be singular if this added activity carried with it no corresponding advantage in the ideational rivalry.
It thus appears that, whatever the effect in ideation of unity in the impression, the effect is much greater when we have complexity in unity.
Probably the true function of the brightness quality in favoring ideation would be better shown by a comparison of different grays.
The object of this series was to determine the effect in ideation of exposing for unequal lengths of time the two objects compared.
That, under like conditions, colored objects are more persistent in ideation than gray objects.
Further, there are thousands of circumstances where the ideation is neither in conflict with the perception nor isolated from it, but in logical continuity with it.
Their logical composition is, indeed, that of an external perception, and there is in ideation exactly the same duality as in sensation.
It is, therefore, easy to understand, that it should have been proposed to carry into ideation the dichotomy between the physical and the moral.
Let us, then, examine in what measure this separation between perception and ideation can be legitimately established.
In this and hundreds of other cases the course of ideation can, to a certain extent, be followed, because all the links in the chain of association are preserved.
These teachers undertake to introduce their students into mental philosophy, and are yet without the capacity to distinguish from rational thought the incoherent fugitive ideation of a maniac.
They wish for evasiveideation and babble; we wish for attention, observation, and knowledge.
A distinct melody awakens and demands attention, and is hence opposed to the fugitive ideationof the weak brains of the degenerate.
The same acceleration of ideation is found in certain forms of dementia and in secondary psychical enfeeblement, “with activity produced by hallucinations.
Now this is an activity, not of the centres of perception, but of the centres of ideationand judgment.
The content of this incoherent fugitive ideation is formed by a small number of insane ideas, continually repeating themselves with exasperating monotony.
Nevertheless Cosmic ideationis the real source of the states of consciousness in every individual.
Cosmic ideation exists everywhere; but when placed under restrictions by a material Upadhi it results as the consciousness of the individual inhering in such Upadhi.
It nourishes on saps which other branches of ideation are too narrow or rigid to take up.
Association was invoked to explain the adjustment of ideation to the order of external perception.
The elements of prose are always practical, if we run back and reconstruct their primitive essence, for at bottom every experience is an original and not a copy, a nucleus for ideation rather than an object to which ideas may refer.
The absence of such cadences would leave a sensible gap--a gap which the momentum of ideation is quick to fill up with some appropriate image.
All ideation on an intellectual plane was a vague perception of the divine essence.
The distinctive virtue or plus of the animal is sense perception; it sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels but is incapable in turn, of conscious ideation or reflection which characterize and differentiate the human kingdom.
The animal possesses no power of ideation or conscious intelligence; it is a captive of the senses and deprived of that which lies beyond them.
That the species of Cebus which he observed exhibits various forms of ideation he is willing to admit.
But in contrast with his results, those obtained by Haggerty (1909), in a much more extended investigation in which several species of monkey were used, obtained more numerous and convincing evidences of ideation in imitative behavior.
I hesitate to infer definite ideation from the available evidence, but I strongly suspect the presence of images and relatively ineffective or inadequate ideation.
Extremely interesting and valuable definitions of ideation and discussions of the characteristics of different sorts of ideas in the light of original observations on monkeys have been presented by Thorndike (1901, pp.
For so far as one may say by comparing it with the curves for various learning processes exhibited by other mammals, it is indicative of ideation of a high order, and possibly of reasoning.
The work of Shepherd (1910) agrees closely, so far as evidences of ideation are concerned, with that of Thorndike.
The terms idea and ideation have been used to designate contents of consciousness which are primarily representative.
Evidences of Ideation in Monkeys Aside from anecdotal and traveller's notes on the behavior of monkeys and apes we have only a scanty literature.
Box and Pole Experiment Following the box stacking test, Julius was given an opportunity to exhibitideation in another type of experiment.
But their results are in many respects more interesting, if not also more important, in the light which they throw on ideation than are those previously presented.
Nevertheless, Hobhouse was able to obtain from him numerous and interesting responses to novel situations, some of which may be safely accepted as evidences of ideation of a fairly high order.
Evidences of Ideation in Apes Reliable literature of any sort concerning the behavior and mental life of the anthropoid apes is difficult to find, and still more rare are reports concerning experimental studies of these animals.
It appears, however, that Hobhouse's experiments were admirably planned to test the ideational capacity of his subjects, and one can not find a more stimulating discussion of ideation than that contained in his "Mind in Evolution.
These supplementary methods are simple tests of ideation rather than systematic modes of research.
There is absolutely neither perceptible nor imperceptible means by which perceptual space in anywise can be affected by an act of will, ideation or movement.
The vocabulary is moderately rich, and of course represents the daily needs of a primitive people, their surroundings, their avocations, and their thoughts, while expressing little of the richer ideation of cultured cosmopolites.
Ideation \ Perversions (concepts change their meaning altogether) { as in dementia.
If they do, it must be admitted that ideation goes on in them while they are asleep; and, in that case, there is no reason to doubt that they are conscious of trains of ideas in their waking state.
He then manifested this in a very erratic manner; ideation was disturbed and disconnected, and there was present psychomotor restlessness.
His perception was very dull, ideationslow and laborious.
There is little hope of receiving a new ideation and acting upon it, when one allows himself day after day to drag through the same central sensations and receive the same nerve impulses, and register the same responses.
Ideas have definite sensory centers in the cortex of the brain and consciousideation may be induced to produce a particular form of willing.
It is utterly bereft of ideationor intellection, utterly incapable of the processes of reason.
The animal may develop a wonderful degree of intelligence, but it can never attain the powers of ideation and conscious reflection which belong to man.
I do not mean that abstraction which enables a man to soar into realms of thought infinitely above any effort of ideation to be attained by any of the lower animals, but abstraction in its embryonic state.
The better creatures are able to communicate ideation or thought, the stronger and more frequent are the evidences of their possession of reason.
This experience was wholly new to her, consequently, she must have used correlative ideation for definite purposes in formulating her method of procedure.
It is often the case that animals find themselves amid surroundings in which they are required to evince original ideation and fail so to do.
Memory) I have related an instance of complex ideation in a bird.
Returning for a moment to insects, we find that bees and ants give many evidences of intelligent correlative ideation and action for definite purposes not instinctive.
The quality of abstraction in such ideation is not very high, it is true, yet it is abstraction, nevertheless.
