 We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange who cannot get nearer to his customers than his end of the telephone wires. We are indeed worse off than the clerk, for to carry out the analogy properly we must suppose him never to have been outside...  Educational Review - Page 18edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Karl Pearson - 1900 - 586 pages
...world outside ourselves ? Just as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer — in short, never, except through the telephone wire, to ha1.e come in contact... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1900 - 598 pages
...world outside ourselves ? Just as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...properly we must suppose him never to have been outside tlic telephonc exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one lihe a customer — in short, never,... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1904 - 652 pages
...no nearer to the supposed outside world " than the brain-terminals of the sensory nerves " ; that " we are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...his customers than his end of the telephone wires " ; that the conscious ego of each one of us is "seated at the brain-terminals of the sensory nerves... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1911 - 430 pages
...outside ourselves ? Just I as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the * sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer — in short, never, except through the telephone -wire, to have come in contact... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1911 - 426 pages
...world outside ourselves ? Just as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...properly we must suppose him never to have been outside t/ie telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer — in short, never,... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1911 - 446 pages
...world outside ourselves ? Just as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...the analogy properly we must suppose him never to l1ave been outside the telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer... | |
 | Orlin Ottman Fletcher - 1913 - 448 pages
...as near but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the telephone exchange who cannot get nearer to his customers...we must suppose him never to have been outside the exchange, never to have seen a customer or anyone like a customer — in short, never, except through... | |
 | Albert Coulson Buckley - 1920 - 488 pages
...world outside ourselves ? Just as near as but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...anyone like a customer — in short, never, except through the telephone wire, to have come in contact with the outside universe. " Very much in the position... | |
 | Marc De Mey - 1992 - 350 pages
...with the question, "how close can we get to this supposed world outside ourselves" he argues that: We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer in short, never, except through the telephone wire, to have come in contact... | |
 | Michael H. Whitworth - 2001 - 270 pages
...world outside ourselves? Just as near but no nearer than the brain terminals of the sensory nerves. We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange...tele-phone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer — in short, never, except through the tele-phone wire, to have come in contact... | |
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