From On Small Differences in Sensation By Charles Sanders Peirce & Joseph Jastrow (1885)

Classics in the History of Psychology: " This happened in cases where the judgments were so much affected by the difference of pressures as to be correct three times out of five. The general fact has highly important practical bearings, since it gives new reason for believing that we gather what is passing in one another's minds in large measure from sensations so faint that we are not fairly aware of having them, and can give no account of how we reach our conclusions about such matters. The insight of females as well as certain "telepathic" phenomena may be explained in this way. Such faint sensations ought to be fully studied by the psychologist and assiduously cultivated by every man." - from On Small Differences in Sensation By Charles Sanders Peirce & Joseph Jastrow (1885)

Cap tips Jon, Jonathan



Global Online Privacy