Philosophy

Table of Contents - April 1936 - Volume 11, Issue 42  

Articles

Physical Influence and Mental Reference

Professor C. Lloyd Morgan

In a scientific discussion of the processes which we (or some of us) designate “vital,” attention is concentrated on an interpretation of that which happens within a relational system of physical influence. In a scientific discussion of the processes which we reflectively distinguish as “mental,” attention is directed to what occurs in a relational system of psychological reference. We should seek to distinguish each from the other in any given context where both are in evidence.