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International Scientific Series.

VOLUME LXXXIX.

(The International Scientific Series)

Edited by F. Legge

THE MIND AND THE
BRAIN

BY

ALFRED BINET

Directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie
à la Sorbonne

BEING THE AUTHORISED TRANSLATION OF

L'ÂME ET LE CORPS

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. L^TD

DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD STREET, W.

1907

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BOOK I
The Definition of Matter

CHAPTER I
Introduction
The distinction between mind and matter—Knowable not homogeneous—Criterion employed, enumeration not concepts		3
CHAPTER II
Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation
Modern theories of matter—Outer world only known to us by our sensations—Instances—Mill's approval of proposition, and its defects—Nervous system only intermediary between self and outer world—The great X of Matter—Nervous system does not give us true image—Müller's law of specificity of the nerves—The nervous systemitself a sensation—Relations of sensation with the unknowable theaffair of metaphysics		10
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