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The Mind and the Brain

CHAPTER IX
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DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY Difficulty of defining psychology--Definition by substance--Psychology not the science of the soul--Definition by enumeration: its error--Definition by method contradicts idea of consciousness--Externospection and introspection sometimes confused--Definition by content--Facts cannot be divided into those of consciousness and of unconsciousness--Descartes' definition of psychology insufficient--"Within and without" simile unanalogous--Definition by point of view--Inconsistencies of Ebbinghaus' contention--W.

James' teleological theory--Definition by the peculiar nature of mental laws only one possible: why?
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