The soul of man : an investigation of the facts of physiological and experimental psychology / by Paul Carus.

  • Carus, Paul, 1852-1919.
Date:
1891
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    ture of Things ' in themselves, distinguishes between object and eject. He says: There is the external or objective order in which the sensa- tion of letting go is followed by the sight of a falling object and the sound of its fall. The objective order, q^ia order, is treated by physical science which investigates the uniform relations of objects in time and space. However remote the inference of physical science, the thing inferred is always a part of me, a possible set of changes in any consciousness bound up in the objective order with other known changes. The objective order is represented by physical science as a system of motions that follow one another according to strict laws. What now is an eject ? Professor Clifford says : There are, however, some inferences which are profoundly different from those of physical science. When 1 come to the con- clusion that are conscious and that there are objects in jc^wr consciousness similar to those in mine, I am not inferring any actual or possible feelings of my own, but/c?/;- feelings, which are not, and cannot, by any possibility become objects in my conscious- ness. . . . . These inferred existences are in the very act of infer- ence thrown out of my consciousness, recognized as outside of it as not being apart of me. I propose, accordingly, to call these inferred existences ejects, things thrown out of my consciousness to dis- tmguish them from objects, things presented in my consciousness, phenomena. Let us represent the processes observable in the objective world by Italic letters. What we call things or occurrences are either simultaneous or success- ive groups oi A B C, R S T, etc. Among these groups there is one / K L which is called our body ; and some motions oi IK L are accompanied with feel- mgs. Now for the sake of distinction let us represent feelings with Greek letters. We find that certain IK L