Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam.

  • James Jackson Putnam
Date:
1915
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Credit: Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into positive and negative “fluids,” — that is, of acting upon themselves, with nothing else between. And when it comes to the introspection of our own thought the same thing happens on a larger scale. It is not with our bodily eyes that we see our thoughts, and yet we do observe them. In addition to the reasons already urged for hostility to metaphysical ideas, the common argument should be mentioned that mind cannot be fundamental in the world, because if we go back to the time when no organic life existed on our planet there is no evidence that mind existed either. By this argument, mind seems to be ruled out of the universe altogether. It is forgotten, however, that no one would admit for a moment that the absence of organic life, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, meant the banishment of the laws of physics. But what are the laws of physics ? Are they something that can have a real and
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