The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of spaceBrowne, Robert T.
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The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
Hyperspace
-- a monument to the intellect, 356
-- and the involved procedure of arriving at a recognition of its
relations, 73
-- and the passage thither, 293, _ff_
Hyperspace as a figurative mountain-peak, 200
-- -- -- movement, 44-68
-- -- an all-powerful something, 160
-- -- -- idealized construction, 10
-- -- evidence of new faculties, 24
-- -- _ignes fatuii_, 154
-- -- illusion, 202
-- a symbol of higher consciousness, 180-4
-- concept of, as an evolutionary quantity, 44-5
-- confounded with real space, 91
-- creation of, 335
-- denied the corroborative testimony of experience, 263
-- direction of, baffling to mathematicians, 146
-- discovery of, a sign of mental evolution, 180
-- domain of, a fairy-land, 239
-- magnitudes of, the non-sensuous, 72
-- mysterious hiding place in, 129
-- the logical difficulties of, 139-141
-- the six pillars of, 62-3
Hyperspatiality as the toys of childhood, 241
Hypertetrahedron, the, 135
Hypertrophy of the pituitary body, 347
Hypervolume, the, 134
Hypothesis, a superfoetated, 141
-- four-space, utility of, 129; 154
Hypotheses, admissibility of, 118
-- incompatibility of the non-Euclidean, 67; 71
-- Riemannian, 80
-- solution of, Bolyai, 31
Hyslop, James H., on the logical difficulties of hyperspace, 139-141
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Icosahedron, examination of the, 285
Ideal, and the real, kosmic chasm between, 107
-- perceptual value of, 275, _ff_
Ideas and words as symbols, 126-7
-- Malebranche on, 222
-- realism of, 24-35
-- the symbolism of, 205
Identification of consciousness with being, 205-6
-- with the objects of study, 189-90
Identity of things-in-themselves, 353
_Ignes fatuii_ and hyperspaces, 154
Illustration of plane-rotation, 148-150
-- -- the tesseract, 133
Images, totality of, recoils upon us, 167
Imaginability of the fourth dimension, 90, 106-7
Imagination, premises of, the mathematical, 146
Impossibility of plane-rotation, the structural, 151-3
Impressions, the symbolism of, neurographic, 186
Impulse, the satisfaction of the original creative, 310-1
Incomprehensibility of reality to the intellect, 126
Incongruity, life estranged by a radical, 325
Individual as space, 223
Ineptitude of intellectual determinations for vitality, 314
Infinite, interpreted in the terms of the finite, 82
Infinitesimals of unity, numbers as, 41
Infinity as a process, 109
-- of becomings, 234
Infinity of parallels through a given point, 70
-- -- space, a capital illusion, 195
-- the concept of, 277
-- -- innate dread of, 103
-- -- relativity of, 194
Influence of abstract thought, 33
-- -- Kant on the non-Euclidean geometry, 49-50
-- -- La Grange, 51-2
-- -- the intellect, 315
Infundibulum, the, 345
Inner organs of perception, 352
Innermost, the, realities of things, 356
_Insouciance_ of the geometer, 96, 294
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