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MR. BURNS has produced a very clear argument. It avoids the epistemological problem of intercourse, and the psychological problem of the genesis of knowledge, and narrows itself to the discussion of the nature of our knowledge of other minds. The traditional view that the existence of other minds is an inference is rejected, and it is held that the knowledge of them is “enjoyment” in the technical philosophical meaning of the term. Mr. Burns conceives knowledge realistically as the contemplation of objects compresent with the mind which knows itself in the contemplating. Other minds are known, he thinks, not as objects contemplated, but as our own mind contemplating. It is a thoughtful essay on a problem of deep interest.
The Contact between Minds: a Metaphysical Hypothesis.
C. Delisle
Burns
By. Pp. x + 138. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Contact between Minds: a Metaphysical Hypothesis. Nature 112, 236 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112236b0
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