PREFACE TO THE PAPER EDITION |
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PREFACE |
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INTRODUCTION |
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1. Things, Logic, and Experiencing |
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2. A Description of Experiencing |
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3. The Demands of Existentialism and of Logical Positivism Can be Included |
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4. Preconceptual Experiencing Is the Basic Factor to Which Are Due the Many Current Calls for a New Methodology in the Behavioral Sciences |
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5. The Preconceptual Character of Experiencing |
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6. Content Concepts Are Ineffective to Organize Observations |
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7. Illustrations in the Area of Psychotherapy |
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I THE PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCED MEANING |
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[A] Statement of the Problem |
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[B] A Few Problems That Lead to the Problem of Experienced Meaning |
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2. Problems in Psychology |
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3. Experience as a Source of Meaning |
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4. The Dependence of Intellect |
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[C] Certain Related Issues That Are Not Involved in the Present Task |
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1. The Validity of Cognition |
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2. The Causation of Cognition |
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3. Example and Discussion of the Separation of the Present Problem from These Problems |
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II DEMONSTRATION THAT FELT MEANING FUNCTIONS IN COGNITION |
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Introduction |
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[A] Demonstration That Felt Meaning Occurs in All Cases of Human Cognition |
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5. Art, Religion, Emotion, Persons |
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[B] Demonstration That Felt Meaning Performs Specific Functions Necessary in Cognition, Other than the Experienced or Associated Parallel Side of Cognition |
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2. Remembering or Articulating |
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III HOW FELT MEANING FUNCTIONS |
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[A] Parallel Functional Relationships of Felt Meaning in Cognition |
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[B] Creative Functional Relationships ("Specific," "Nonparallel") |
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IV CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERIENCED MEANING AS FUNCTIONING IN NEW SYMBOLIZATION |
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[A] Experienced Meaning Is Not Determined by Logical Relationships, But Does Not Function Arbitrarily |
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1. Reversal of the Usual Philosophic Procedure |
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2. What Determines the Creation of Meanings? |
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[B] Characteristics of Experienced Meaning as Functioning in New Symbolization |
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Introduction |
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1. The Non-numerical Character of Experience |
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2. The "Multischematic" Character of Experience |
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3. Meanings Are Likenesses and Vice Versa |
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6. Any Concept Is One of Many |
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7. Any Experienced Meaning Can (Partly) Schematize (Creatively Determine) a New Aspect of Another Experienced Meaning |
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8. Every Experience Is Capable of Having an Aspect Schematized by Any Other Experience |
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V THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALS: "IOFI" |
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Introduction |
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1. Methodological Questions Can Refer to the Kind of Experiencing Involved in a Meaning and Its Role in Discourse |
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2. Specifying Experiencing as an Instance of Itself |
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3. Reflexivity: Experiencing as an "Iofi" Is Meaning |
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4. Applicability of "Iofi" |
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5. "Iofi" Is the Principle of the Functional Relationships |
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6. An Optional Distinction Among the Functional Relationships Applied to "Iofi" and to Relativity |
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7. "Iofi," Relativity, and an Exemplary Issue Mutually Applied to Each Other |
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9. The "Iofi" Principle and Traditional Philosophy |
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VI APPLICATION IN PHILOSOPHY |
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[A] Principles of Philosophic Method as Implied by Relativity |
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1. Countless Possible Meanings |
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6. The Relativity of All Terms |
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[B] Conclusions Regarding Certain Philosophic Problems |
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VII APPLICATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH |
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[A] Terms That Refer to Experiencing |
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Introduction |
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1. The Task: To Make Scientific Reference to Experiencing Possible |
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2. Observations of the Function of Experiencing |
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3. How "Experiencing" Can Be Known and Defined (Some Definitions of Terms) |
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[B] Current Issues in the Theory of Psychotherapy |
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1. Degree and Kind of Conceptualization in Therapy |
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2. Experience and "Congruence" |
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3. The Role of Other Kinds of Symbolization |
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[C] Relationship Between the Proposed Method and Logical Positivism and Operationalism in Psychology |
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1. Prior to the First Positivistic Stage of an Investigation |
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2. At the Stage After Operational Conclusions |
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3. New Forms and Principles of Inquiry |
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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I |
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Husserl |
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1. Phenomenological Method |
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2. The Experience of Meaning Can Be Distinguished and Has a Distinct Function in Cognition |
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3. The Experience of Meaning Is Distinguished from Images and from Perceptions |
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4. Meaning Is Experienced as Distinct from Symbolic Thought |
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Sartre |
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Merleau-Ponty |
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I. A. Richards |
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INDEX |
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