...ingly in this first lecture I shall try to give a brief description of the systems of ideas within which our investigation is to be carried on. If the... ... force an outlet for itself; hence it becomes necessary to entertain whole systems of false beliefs in order to hide the nature of what is desired. Th... ...ection between cause and effect, and to be able to imag- ine the cause as “operating.” This makes us unwilling to re- gard causal laws as merely obser... ...hology is concerned essentially with ac- tual particulars, not merely with systems of particulars. In this it differs from physics, which, broadly spe... ...timulus is always some condition external to the nervous system itself and operating upon it.” I think that this is the correct view, and that the dis... ...cesses almost all of which are not de- liberate, but the results of causes operating according to more or less ascertainable laws. If we trace any Ind... ...e inner speech which may be represented by “Que dit-il? Ah, oui, une auto- mobile!” After this, the rest follows as with the Englishman. Watson would ...