14&amp;gt; THE INTELLECTU4I/IST CRITERION 

 IV 



I have gone from the very general considerations 

 which occupied us in the earlier portions of this 

 article to matters which relatively at least are 

 specific. I conclude with a summary in the hope 

 that it may bind together the earlier and the later 

 parts of this paper. 



1. The condition which antecedes and provokes 

 any particular exercise of reflective knowing is al 

 ways one of discrepancy, struggle, &quot; collision.&quot; 

 This condition is practical, for it involves the habits 

 and interests of the organism, an agent. This 

 does not mean that the struggle is merely personal, 

 or subjective, or psychological. The agent or 

 individual is one factor in the situation not the 

 situation something subsisting in the individual. 

 The individual has to be identified in the situation, 

 before any situation can be referred as in psy 

 chology to the individual. But the discrepancy 

 calls out and controls reflective knowing only as 

 the fortunes of an agent are implicated in the 

 crisis. Certain elements stand out as obstacles, as 

 interferences, as deficiencies in short as unsatis 

 factory and as requiring something for their com 

 pletion. Other elements stand out as wanted as 

 required, as a satisfaction which does not exist. 

 This clash (an accompaniment of all desire) be 

 tween the given and the wanted, between the pres- 



