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The Rôle of the Observer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Norbert Wiener*
Affiliation:
National Tsing Hua University, Peiping, China

Extract

The distinction between psychology, logic, and epistemology is a commonplace. The first treats of experience as an act, experience in its relation to the individual observer. The second concerns itself with the internal marks by which truth may be distinguished from error, and in so far as it deals with experience, has to do with some sort of validity of the experience as evidence of a truth. The third discusses in a general way all the elements—observer, object, immediate presentation—which enter into the experience.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1936

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References

1 Quantum Mechanics as a Basis for Philosophy. Philosophy of Science, Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1934.