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Excerpt from Introduction to Physiological Psychology, Vol. 5 The psychology which I shall present to you is not that old psychology which sought to investigate psychical phenomena in a more or less speculative way. That psychology has long been abandoned by those whose method of thought is that of the natural sciences, and empirical psychology has justly taken its place. Physiological psychology constitutes a part of empirical psychology. Let us start from an antithesis which has long been traditional in philosophy, and to which psychology in particular owes its existence as an independent science. This is the antithesis of material phenomena and psychical phenomena. We Shall purposely avoid the terms mind and matter, since each introduces a new and at first purely hypothetical unit instead of the manifold data primarily furnished us. For the present also we shall not investigate whether the material and the psychical data are equally primary or not. It shall be reserved rather for the close of our researches to decide whether the material and the psychical are entirely independent of each other; or whether the former is a function of the latter as the Spiritualistic philosopher assumes; or finally whether the latter is merely a function of the former as the materialist conversely assumes. For. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.