This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...us the qiiestion regarding their exact relation. This is a most perplexing problem and one for which we cannot perhaps expect to find a complete solution. It may not be in vain, however, to state the problem clearly, and endeavor to come face to face with the difficulties involved in it. There are at least two ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...us the qiiestion regarding their exact relation. This is a most perplexing problem and one for which we cannot perhaps expect to find a complete solution. It may not be in vain, however, to state the problem clearly, and endeavor to come face to face with the difficulties involved in it. There are at least two questions which we can keep separate from each other. The first is the problem which science, adopting as it does the common sense standpoint, must raise in regard to the relation it is warranted in predicating between the phenomena with which Physiology and Psychology deal. It is, one may say, a methodological question regarding the most profitable way in which these sciences shall carry on their investigations. The other question is metaphysical, and is concerned with the ultimate nature of body and mind. It has to attempt to discover a tenable theory of the ultimate underlying unity in virtue of which these different classes of phenomena can both belong to the same world. We have every reason to suppose that all states of consciousness are accompanied by corresponding nervous states. We know that any considerable change in the physical organism, particularly in the brain, is attended by disturbances in the mental sphere. We also became convinced, in analysing the phenomena of Will, that when any representation fills consciousness a muscular movement at once follows. Further, we may point to the fact of the quantitative relation between the external stimulus and the resulting sensation which has been formulated by Weber's law. All these facts of correspondence seem to indicate that the two series are not ultimately separated, but belong in some way to the same world. ' 1 Wundt, Essays, p. 116. The question which will first concern us is...
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