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THE present generation is witnessing a sustained and persistent effort to raise psychology to the status of a science. Hitherto it has been a part of philosophy, and it is felt by psychologists that success depends wholly on their being able to detach it. There is something curiously instructive in the fact that the task is avowedly difficult. It is curious because the data of psychology are more immediate than any other data of science, and for that reason alone we should expect them to be the most easily known and the most susceptible to treatment. But the instructive thing is that this very intimacy of our relationship with the data militates against scientific treatment. All the trouble in regard to the matter arises from the fact that the objects of a science of psychology are more difficult to abstract from the subject of experience, more difficult to reify or set up with an independent status of their own, than are the objects of any recognised science, mathematical, physical, or biological.
The Psychology of Everyday Life.
By Dr. James Drever. Pp. ix + 164. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 6s. net.
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CARR, H. The Psychology of Everyday Life . Nature 109, 368 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109368a0
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