![]() The outward form of a body is simply sensation and the innermost and most delicate material structure, the last visible elements of a cell, for example, are all, in so far as we observe them with the microscope, nothing but sensation. A landscape is nothing but a cluster of sensations. Sensation is its limit, and all objects are known to us by the sensations they produce in us, and are known to us solely in this manner. Whether the knowledge of them be of the common-place or of a scientific order matters little. This observation might be repeated with regard to all objects of the outer world which enter into relation with us.Since we seek to know what is the physical phenomenon we perceive, we must first enunciate this proposition, which will govern the whole of our discussion: to wit- Of the outer world we know nothing except our sensations.The mind and the brain, Translation of L'Âme et le Corps. The Mind and the Brain, 1907 Īlfred Binet. Wallace Wallin in the March 1911 issue of the journal The Psychological Clinic (volume 5 number 1), public domain. Reproduction of an item from the 1908 Binet-Simon intelligence scale, showing three pairs of pictures, about which the tested child was asked, "Which of these two faces is the prettier?" Reproduced from the article "A Practical Guide for Administering the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence" by J. ![]() The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. I wish that people would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved (by large studies) the statistical method gives only mediocre results some recent examples demonstrate that. ![]() Paul Hervieu", L’Anne´e psychologique (10), p.
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