Body and mind; a history and a defence of animism (1920)
McDougall, William, 1871-1938 · The Macmillan company · leaf 163
sensations evoked by this series of stimuli will differ inintensity by equal amounts. That is to say the sensation-intensities will form a series of values in arithmetical progression,while the corresponding stimulus-values will form a series ingeometrical progression. This inference may be stated… … The ordinates of Sn {a, b, c, d, e) represent the values of thesensation-intensities, those of St the values of the correspondingstimulus-intensities a, ,5, y, 3, %. THE AUTOMATON THEORIES 141 Now, if we apply to any sense organ the slightest possiblestimulation we find that it evokes no…
Mind and body · Animism
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