The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E.B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H.B. Donkin.

  • Sherlock, Edward Birchall.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E.B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H.B. Donkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    objects are those which are possible objects of awareness for every subject: psychical objects are those which are possible objects of awareness for one subject only. Mr. R. B. Haldane^ holds a similar view. ''All men, he says, ''must see and feel in such a fashion that the universals in which their descriptions are recorded are the same, if the impression is to be given the title of real. A little later he mentions what he calls a threefold test of what we mean by reality: Agreement furnished by (i) our own present senses of every kind ; (2) our past sense experience ; and (3) the sense experience of others. These throw light upon what we mean by reality and unreality in human knowledge, or, for that matter, in human perception. It means the assignment of the phenomenon to its proper place in the context of experience. Accepting reality, we are in a position to accept also Professor W. Mitchell's ingenious explanation of the relations of mind and brain. *'It is an error, he says, to speak of mental and physical facts as co-ordinate. . . A mind and its experiences are realities that are presentable to sense as the brain and its action. ^ Against the hypothesis of reciprocal interaction is advanced the difficulty of imagining how such an interaction could take place between entities which, according to our experience of them, have no attributes in common. Further, it is urged that the ^ R. B. Haldane, The Pathway to Reality^ 1903, Vol. I., pp. 71 and ']'], 2 W. Mitchell, Structure and Growth of the Mind^ 190/) p. 23.