Bøger af Alfred Binet

This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed. First let us say how the question presents itself to us. The fact which we must take as a starting point, for it is independent of every kind of theory, is that there exists something which is "knowable." Not only science, but ordinary life and our everyday conversation, imply that there are things that we know. It is with regard to these things that we have to ask ourselves if some belong to what we call the mind and others to what we call matter.

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" Chacun de nous a éprouvé, qüil le sache ou non, un grand nombre d¿illusions des sens : nos sens ne nous disent pas toujours la vérité ; notre ¿il nous trompe, notre oreille nous trompe, notre main elle-même, que nous étendons d¿ordinaire pour contrôler le témoignage des autres sens, peut nous tromper ; ou plutôt, pour parler avec plus d¿exactitude, ce ne sont pas nos sens qui nous trompent, c¿est notre esprit.Nos sens ne nous font connaître qüune chose, des sensations ; notre ¿il ne nous donne que des taches de lumière et de couleur ; notre main, que des sensations de contact et de mouvement ; et notre esprit se charge d¿interpréter ces sensations, d¿en tirer des conclusions, et de construire avec elles des objets extérieurs doués de propriétés innombrables. Quand nous disons : "Voici une table, une chaise, un chien, une maison..." nous n¿indiquons pas uniquement ce que notre ¿il a perçu, nous faisons un raisonnement. Quand ce raisonnement rapide et automatique porte à faux, nous avons une illusion des sens.La prestidigitation est un art qui s¿est proposé un but singulier : celui de rechercher et de développer toutes les influences qui peuvent nous induire en erreur et nous tromper sur ce que nous voyons. Quand une personne assiste à une séance de prestidigitation, sans comprendre les moyens employés, elle est sollicitée par certains gestes et certaines paroles, elle croit avoir vu poser en un endroit un objet qui réellement a été posé ailleurs, elle voit ce qui n¿existe pas et ne voit pas ce qui existe. On comprend de quel intérêt est pour le psychologue l¿étude des procédés employés pour produire l¿illusion, puisque cette étude nous renseigne sur la marche ordinaire de notre pensée pendant que nous percevons les objets extérieurs, et nous découvre les points faibles de notre connaissance..."

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