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What is the difference between a pain in one’s foot and a pain in one’s stomach? ‘The most natural and immediate answer’, says Williams James, in The Principles of Psychology, is that the difference is one ‘of place pure and simple’.1 But this answer James himself rejects. He rejects it not because of what his experiments, or his introspections, tell him but because of what he calls ‘an insuperable logical difficulty’.
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G. Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1949) ch. IV, sect. 5.
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In noting this, E. G. Boring, in his History of Experimental Psychology (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1929), comments: ‘The addition of unconscious local signs detracts from the beautiful simplicity of Lotze’s theory, but the fact is obvious so far as ordinary introspection can reach.’
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Vesey, G. (1991). The Location of Bodily Sensations. In: Inner and Outer. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21639-0_11
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