Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
To this theory it may be replied, as Professor Flournoy has replied in his Spiritism and Psychology, that it represents the grave methodological defect of multiplying causes without necessity; by postulating spirits and importing them into the problem when they are not wanted. It would be better to seek an explanation elsewhere. The Psycho-Physical Theory.
A particular observation made by Goethe in this respect is of interest for methodological reasons.
If everything is to be cognizable through mathematics, then everything must take place necessarily; even the thoughts, resolutions, and actions of man cannot be free in the sense that they might have happened otherwise. Thus there is an evident methodological motive at work for the extension of mechanism to all becoming, even spiritual becoming. But there are metaphysical reasons also.
If we succeed in this, then the heavens will become for us a text wherein secrets of human nature, hidden from mere introspection, can be read; while at the same time the introspective way enables us to experience things which we cannot uncover simply by observing the outer universe. Apart from these methodological considerations, there is a further reason for our choice.
Our world is to be constructed out of what the American realists call "neutral" entities, which have neither the hardness and indestructibility of matter, nor the reference to objects which is supposed to characterize mind. * It would seem, however, that Dr. Hart accepts this theory as 8 methodological precept.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking