Animal intelligence; experimental studies
Abstract
a bok igi y ty yA yg ae ;een.able subject for a scient may study it without a too uneasy sense of philo heresy and guilt.The writer must confess not only to the absence of an cial reverence for the supposed axiom, but also to the ence of a conviction that it is false, the truth being whatever feature of any animal, say John Smith, of Sapiens, is studied -its length, its color of hair, its temperature, its toothache, its anxiety, or its think 9 x 7-the attitude and methods of the student may erly be substantially the same.Of the six facts in the illustration just given, + three would by the traditional view be all much a study, and all much unlike any of the first thre same kind of science, physical science, would be po the first three and impotent for the last three (save facts about certain physical facts which ' paralleled Conversely one kind of science, psychology, woulc traditional view deal with the last three, but have ~to say about the first three._. .terwith eyes, but by observing thy ._ sale: 3 body through other sense-organs so situated ty lead tosknowledge of only his own body's tempera-It is important to note that for efficient knowledge s own body-temperature, John does not use the sense vach peculiar to him, but that available for all ob-'s.He identifies and measures his 'feverishness' by ing himself as he would study any other animal, by ometer and eye. the case of the toothache the students proceed as , except that they use John's gestures, facial exn, cries…
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