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title: 'Psychology: The Cognitive Powers'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1887-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Epistemology'
- 'Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 12'
- 'Psalms 139'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1887-psychology-the-cognitive-powers
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# Psychology: The Cognitive Powers

James McCosh's The Cognitive Powers presents an inductive psychology examining perception, memory, imagination, and the faculties of mind, arguing for the mind's distinct existence from matter.

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