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VOL. XXXVI
THE
OCTOBER, 1926
No.
MONIST
1We
are especially
glad to print this article from Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan.
a long and distinguished
career as scholar and administrator,
After
his work
still retains the freshness and vigor of youth;
and his conception
of emergent
evolution
is at the focus of contemporary
discussion
of the philosophy
of
one of the earliest
was
Prof.
to The
contributors
Lloyd
Morgan
biology.
articles
frm his nen having aooeared
in Volume
Monist,
I.-Ed.
2 C. E. M.
and Mind,
p. 7.
Joad, Matter
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remains
contingency?
tween mind
and matter,
may
not,
on
But
are
like grounds,
be
re
with much
accuracy.
they,
in some
sense,
technically
some
mode
of
"acceleration"-in
the
mand
to solve
it.
causally
related.
In any
case we
have
to seek
the nat
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INFLUENCE
AND REFERENCE
537
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538
Such
are atoms
in the molecule.
the words
"reference"
and
"influence,"
I shall
attach
Influences
from Mars
may
reach
the retina
of
mental-not,
for me,
non-mental,
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INFLUENCE
539
AND REFERENCE
robs
the word-in
the case
of Mars
for example-of
and
now
distinctively
mental
in contradistinc
it qualifies.
We
of the current
very many
must
that
remember,
however,
of common
expressions
speech
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540
or size
as "geometrical"
shape
ject of reference.
from "sensible"
form.
We
size,
and
dis
res
extensa."
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INFLUENCE
AND REFERENCE
541
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542
nor
guidance."
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543
AND REFERENCE
guidance.
whereas
such
prospective
reference
as
seems
essential
to
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544
is not
concerned
to deny)
does
not
justify
the asser
from
"interaction,"
there
can
be no guidance
prop
erly so called.
But who is to decide what is "guidance properly so
If I say that all typical guidance is subject to
called"?
objective
reference
to consequences
which
are more
or
less
more
nor
less.
But
here
and
now
I do
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INFLUENCE
545
AND REFERENCE
fer
reference
prospective
to consequences.
it
But
Here
guidance.
it seems
that consequences
are
not
and
reasons."
It
the "means-conse
emphasizes
causal
conditions,
but
causal
conditions
are means
. . .
consequences.
Similarly
consequences
(ends)
are at least effects ;but effects are not ends unless thought
has perceived and freely chosen the conditions. . . .We
live on the human plane, responding to things in their
meanings. A relationship of cause-effect has been trans
formed
into one
of means-consequence."8
Notwithstanding
I thinkMr. Dewey
8
John Dewey,
Experience
and Nature,
pp. 366-7
; 371.
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546
sense)
or not,
But
the word
effects
and
are
consequences
so cor
mean.
is an umbrella
"cause"
under
which
I here
within
"causal
and
now
use
the word,
I always
system of influence. On
interaction"
between
mind
mean
causation
this understanding
and matter
is barred
in
mind
on matter
or of matter
on mind.
remains,
however,
the question
: In what
way
are
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INFLUENCE
AND REFERENCE
concomitance
stricted
brain-mind
in us
as will
connection
547
It allows, too, for
not only a re
unrestricted
body
embrace
but
an
the word
"concomitance."
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548
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but one
substantial
unity.
seems
the most
appropriate
name.
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or other
events.
physical
definite
sense.
Moreover,
the whole
seems
to
Broad,
The Mind
and
Its Place
in Nature,
p. 32.
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and
Here
now,
I am
Broad's
indicate
may
however,
how
far we
agree
not
concerned
with
Dr.
we
part
com
within
a system
of reference
or between
a sys
of reference,
intrinsic
therein;
and
that
just
as
so too modes
between
of refer
bodies,
the mind, as a system of enjoyment,
are of one
texture with modes
to external
of reference
as I
objects,
use this word.
of
influence
ence within
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INFLUENCE
contexture of life-the
are
very
subtly
AND REFERENCE
SSI
inter-related
under
influence-has
now
so, however,
we
are
regarding
body-mind
under
In the concrete
instance
there
is
that of concomitance.
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suffice.
down-even
to
the
foundations
very
so too do I conceive
reference
no new
as a mode
of
events.
throughout
of related
one
save
in the form
in which
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553
AND REFERENCE
other
center
within
the body,
extrinsic
reference
always
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as
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"external
as
tion,
Let
reference."5
see
own
it, in my
me,
however,
I am,
way.
that.
But when
that becomes
the dominant
center
re
ferred to, this does not drop out of the objective field of
reference.
or
It is retained
less sub-dominant
in a more
form.
Broad,
op.
on p. 565.
cit.
External
reference
is discussed
on
p.
151 ; objective
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555
AND REFERENCE
reference
non-cognitive
from perception
Apart
in "bare
I cannot
sensory
estimate
acquain
the loss
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556
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rational
demand,
presupposition,
conviction-or
whereas
I acknowledge
concomitance.
Forth
"belief,"
"presupposition,"
or
some
other
word,
and
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557
AND REFERENCE
we
infer as
objective
under
non-cognitive
reference.
To
of reality
as,
for us,
a system
of events
in spatio
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in Nature,
Place
of what
as
place-in-a-place"
he
relation
says on "inherence-from-a
is simple and unan
which
medium
be non-homogeneous
reference
is abnormal-that
be
in transmission,
while
influence
"takes
time"
instantaneous,
the date under objective
reference
always
"certain
events
and brains
and the latter events are the immediate necessary and suf
6
Op.
cit., pp.
162,
168.
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INFLUENCE
relation
of reference.
its objective
other mode
Now
Broad
causal
course
of physical
events
has
no
influence
on perception
as
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56o
are never
and reference
then, influence
Since,
a
of
in concrete
takes in
reference
"fact,"
story
so, guidance
with
reference
to consequences
fore
I am concerned
to preach
have
received
C. LLOYD
UNIVERSITY
OF BRISTOL,
careful,
can
MORGAN.
ENGLAND.
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