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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. PROCESSES OP KNOWLEDGE. 1. The Nature of the Problem. Sensations are not Knowledge.--But these elements which we have been studying do not constitute knowledge or knowing. Knowing does not consist in having feelings of heat, of contact, of color, and of sound. The world which is known is not a disorderly, passing assemblage of these feelings. We have now to discover the processes by which these sensations are elaborated, on the one hand, into the objects known, and on the other into the subject knowing. The best way of approaching this study will be to ascertain what some of the general characteristics of the known world and knowing self are, and by comparing these characteristics with those of sensations, find out what gap it is which the processes are to bridge over. "We shall begin, in short, by pointing out the necessity of these processes, and the function which they fulfil in the psychical life. I. The Natube Of The Known World. 1. Actual Knowledge is Concerned with a ITorld of Belated Objects--that is to say, with a universe of things and events arranged in space and time. This characteristic presents a double contrast to the properties of sensations. (1.) Sensations--smells, tastes, etc.--are purely subjective. They exist only as affections of the 4 absorbed with the individual existence. Science takes a step in advance and discovers what these relations are which connect things and occurrences together so that they all constitute a harmonious whole. Nature of Science.--Scientific knowledge, in other words, differs from ordinary knowledge in being unified, systematic, connected knowledge. Science is not content with knowing that objects are connected in time and space; it endeavors to find out just what the...