Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1935
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1935natur.135..912d&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 135, Issue 3422, pp. 912 (1935).
Physics
Scientific paper
THE necessity for condensed expression is, I think, responsible for the questions raised by Dr. Jeffreys. I admit (indeed, insist on) the distinction between sensations and concepts, but left it unstated because I thought it was implied in the language used. The principle of rejection of unobservables must refer only to concepts; we cannot speak of observing sensations because a sensation is an observation, not a thing to be observed. I cannot reject a sensation of whiteness which may come to me, but I can reject the concept, ghost. I do not share Dr. Jeffreys's objection to the phrase, ``observing a concept'' (for example, observing Neptune). It is unambiguous and far more concise than any alternative which his letter suggests.
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