Charles D. Broad quotes:

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  • In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

  • It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

  • In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

  • Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

  • The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

  • Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

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