 | Medicine - 1898 - 764 pages
...Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. which has defied so far not only the physicist but also Ins bolder brother the metaphysician, and appears likely...manner in which force is produced or reproduced. As sensation, in one phase or another, precedes motion, in one form or another in more complex and fully... | |
 | John Ferguson Nisbet - Human beings - 1899 - 322 pages
...same law applies. There is no longer any point in the learned judge's definition of a metaphysician as ' a blind man looking for a black hat in a dark room, the hat in question not being there.' The metaphysician is merged in the physiologist, and metaphysics is acquiring the same title as physiology,... | |
 | Giles Forward Goldsbrough - Consciousness - 1909 - 86 pages
...and monism, are beyond the scope of physiology and psychology, and are really a search by a blind man for a black hat in a dark room, the hat in question not being there."* "To us the mind is the sum total of mental processes — ie, ideas, feelings and impulses experienced... | |
 | Medicine - 1919 - 664 pages
...its relation to the body; but this, unfortunately, is the proverbial appeal to the blind man to look for a black hat in a dark room, the hat in question not being there. At any rate, philosophy merely states that mind is something opposed to matter, that it is something... | |
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Without aspiring to be defined, as a learned judge is said to have defined the metaphysician, namely, as a blind man looking for a black hat in a dark room... 