Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Psychological Review
As scientific knowledge advances, the control over objects is paralleled by the growing remoteness between happenings and their symbolization. The concept of force as a scientific instrument is far removed from any actual motion, though it must in some capacity or other serve in the control of all movements. This point is further illustrated by the case of ether, which is a scientific idea or symbol, representing so many phases of experience that it does not point to any actual one. The symbolic character of a psychological description emerges in the consideration of a perceptual experience. The abstractive nature of the description seems clearly indicated by the fact that it is impossible to mention all the factors involved, and the more adequate and accurate the description the more it reproduces the experience. The ideally perfect description would involve forcing the indi vidual who receives the description to have the original experience. The best way to describe my perception of an Object is to point to the object; so some person can also perceive it.
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