I am sure in any
case, to be accused of misrepresenting them totally, even in this note,
by omission of the context, so the less I name names and the more I
stick to abstract characterization of a merely possible style of
opinion, the safer it will be. And apropos of misunderstandings, I may
add to this note a complaint on my own account. Professor Stoud, in the
excellent chapter on 'Mental Activity,' in vol. I of his
_Analytic_Psychology_, takes me to task for identifying spiritual
activity with certain muscular feelings and gives quotations to bear him
out. They are from certain paragraphs on 'the Self' in which my attempt
was to show what the central nucleus of the activities that we call
'ours' is. [_Principles_of_Psychology_, vol. I, pp. 299-305.] I found
it in certain intracephalic movements which we habitually oppose, as
'subjective,' to the activities of the transcorporeal world. I sought
to show that there is no direct evidence that we feel the activity of an
inner spiritual agent as such (I should now say the activity of
'consciousness' as such, see [the first essay], 'Does Consciousness
Exist?'). There are, in fact, three distinguishable 'activities' in the
field of discussion: the elementary activity involved in the mere
_that_ of experience, in the fact that _something_ is going on, and the
farther specification of this _something_ into two _whats_, an activity
felt as 'ours,' and an activity ascribed to objects.
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