The logic of human character / by Charles Whitby.

  • Whitby, Charles J. (Charles Joseph)
Date:
1905
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Credit: The logic of human character / by Charles Whitby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but many, perhaps most, human actions in real life partake in some degree of the characteristics of all three divisions. The pure types are therefore in a sense mere logical or psychological abstractions, but for all that they are valid and even necessary distinctions for the purpose with which we are now concerned. 3 (a) Automatism. Reflex or auto- matic actions are such as involve merely a sensory stimulus and a motor response, without cerebral modification of any kind or degree. In human beings they may occur during sleep or unconsciousness, but they are, of course, normal and in- variable only in organisms possessing only the most rudimentary form of nervous mechanism. On the other hand, however, automatism, as a