Publisher's Synopsis
"The Distinction between Mind and its Objects," consists in a brilliantly critical examination of the claims of Modern Realism-a twentieth-century philosophical school of thought, "which, whether unsatisfactory or not, is definitely new." Prof. Bosanquet reaches the conclusion that neither Realism nor its antagonist, Mentalism, is satisfactory per se. "What special use or gain," he asks, "is there in saying that knowledge is physical, when you have to subjoin an elaborate explanation admitting into this physical reality all the ignorance, errors, and illusions that the feeblest or most fantastic of minds could be guilty of? Or what gain for mentalism is there in treating knowledge as a part of your mind, when you must say in the same breath that it is only knowledge in virtue of the reality that appears in it? The double nature of knowledge, as the continuity of mind and reality, is the ultimate truth to insist on."
-"Nature," Vol. 91
