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Until we have done this, we are in great danger of error. We are actually uncertain of our materials. Again. The psychologist speaks of the relation of mind and body. Some psychologists incline to be parallelists, some are warm advocates of interactionism. Now, any theory of the relation of mind to body must depend on observation ultimately.
But first, I must say a few words about a type of doctrine lately insisted upon, which bears some resemblance to interactionism as we usually meet with it, and, nevertheless, tries to hold on to the doctrine of the conservation of energy. It is this: The concept of energy is stretched in such a way as to make it cover mental phenomena as well as physical.
The parallelist, for it is he who opposes interactionism, insists that we must not forget that mental phenomena do not belong to the same order as physical phenomena.
The philosopher tries to attain to a clearer conception of these things. His task, be it remembered, is to analyze and explain, not to deny, the experiences which are the common property of mankind. In the present day the two theories of the relation of mind and body that divide the field between them and stand opposed to each other are interactionism and parallelism.
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