Parmenides, monistic view complete in, 251
Parry, Professor R. B., 292
Perception, difference between introspection and, 10 f.
a species of sensitivity, 59, 123
and inference, 65 f.
from objective standpoint, 66 ff.
of external event, analysis of, 123 ff.
element of subjectivity in, 130 ff.
and causal laws of physics, 145 ff.
its relation to the object causal and mathematical, 149
from introspective standpoint, 201 ff.
Perceptive knowledge, stages in act of, 18 ff.
Percepts, 133, 135, 137 ff.
Perspective, 152
Philosophy, the business of, 2, 236
Behaviourism as a, 129 ff.
Utilitarian, 229 f.
systems of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, 237 ff.
Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, 244 ff.
conscious purpose of, 299
Physics, modern, 97
causal laws in, 114 ff., 145 ff.
and perception, 123 ff.
spatial relations in, 137 ff.
our knowledge of, 151 ff.
only mathematical properties of, discoverable, 157
less deterministic than formerly, 239
and psychology, 282, 289
Pictures, as representations, 183
“Planck’s Constant”, 101 f.
Plato, 226
Poetry, 220
Probability, fundamental in science, 274
_a priori_ on Mr. Keynes’s theory, 274
“frequency”, theory of, 274 f.
Psychology, 16, 172, 184
and physics, 282, 289
“Psychophysical parallelism”, 238
“Public good”, the, 230
Publicity, in the case of physical phenomena, 170
Quantum changes, 106
Radio-activity, 99, 103
Reactions, learned, 21, 33, 35, 36, 49, 81
Realism, naive, 175
Recognition, two forms of, 196
Recollection, true, 197 ff.
Relations, Bradley’s argument against, 252
cause of confusion about, 264
Relativity, theory of, “space-time” instead of one cosmic time and
space, 108
some results of the, 108 ff.
“events” instead of bodies moving, 110
relations between “events”, 110 f.
no “forces” in the, 111
philosophical consequences of the, 293
“Right conduct”, 230
Rutherford, Sir E., 99, 101
Santayana, Mr., 230
Schiller, Dr. F. C. S., 79
Schrödinger, 98, 105, 278, 293, 294
Self-observation, 126, 161 ff.
basis of Descartes’s system, 162 ff.
Dr. Watson’s views, 167 ff.
gives knowledge not part of physics, 175
Semon, 49, 180
Sensation, difference between images and, 179
acoleuthic, 197
as opposed to perception, 204
Sensitivity, 59 f., 88, 123, 177
Sentences, 51, 54, 75, 255, 264
Sequence, laws of, 116
Shakespeare, 192
Sheffer, Dr. H. M., 282, 292
Sight, compared with touch, 156 f.
Size, sense of, 153
Socrates, 226
“Solipsism”, 291
Sommerfeld, 103
Space, one persistent, abolished in relativity theory, 108
physical and perceptual, 137 ff., 241 f., 294
Space-time, in theory of relativity, 108 ff.
structure of, 145
point-instant in, 278
“Specious present”, 195, 197
Spinoza, 238, 251
_Stars and Atoms_ (Eddington), 279
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