CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Mind-stuff Theory, 



Evolutionary Psychology demands a Mind-dust, 146. Some 

 alleged proofs that it exists, 150. Refutation of these proofs, 154. 

 Self-compouiiding of mental facts is inadmissible, 158. Can 

 states of mind be unconscious? 16"2. Refutation of alleged proofs 

 of unconscious thought, 164. Difficulty of stating the connection 

 between mind and brain, 176. ' The iSoul ' is logically the least 

 objectionable bypotliesis, 180. Conclusion, 182. 



145 



CHAPTER VII. 

 The Methods and Snares of Psychology, 



Psychology is a natural Science, 183. Introspection, 185. 

 Experiment, 192. Sources of error, 194. The ' Psychologist's 

 fallacy,' 196. 



183 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 The Relations of Minds to other Things, . 



Time relations : lapses of Consciousness— Locke v. Descartes 

 200. The 'unconsciousness' of hysterics not genuine, 202 

 Minds may split into dissociated parts :^U6. Space-relations 

 the Seat of the Soul, 214. Cognitive relations, 216. The Psychol 

 ogist's point of view, 218. Two kinds of knowledge, acquaint 

 ance and knowledge about, 221. 



199 



CHAPTER IX. 

 The Stream of Thought, 



Consciousness tends to the personal form, 225. It is in con- 

 stant change. 229. It is sensibly continuous, 237. ' Substantive ' 

 and ' transitive ' parts of Consciousness, 243. Feelings of rela- 

 tion, 245. Feelings of tendency, 249. The 'fringe' of the 

 object, 258. The feeling of rational sequence, 261. Thought 

 possible in anj^ kind of mental material, 265. Thought and lan- 

 guage, 267. Consciousness is cognitive, 271. The word Object, 



275. Every cognition is due to one integral pulse of thought, 



276. Diagrams of Thought's stream, 279. Thought is always 

 selective, 284. 



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CHAPTER X. 

 The Consciousness of Self, 291 



The Empirical Self or Me, 291. Its constituents, 292. The 

 material self, 292. The Social Self, 293. Tlie Spiritual Self, 296. 

 DiflBculty of apprehending Thought as a purely spiritual activity, 



