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The ‘Body-Mind Problem’ in Philosophy, Psychology and Medicine1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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There is a story about a distinguished mathematician who had been invited to deliver a course of advanced lectures to other high-powered students of mathematics on a subject about which he was known to have some original ideas. The course, however, got off to a slow start. He devoted three lectures to discussing whether a certain proposition P was or was not self evident. The proposition P was essential to the argument he wanted to develop. Happily, he was able to announce at the opening of his fourth lecture that he had decided that P was self evident. There was an audible sigh of relief. It was now known, on the highest authority, that P was self evident. From that the argument proceeded briskly and with irresistible logic to the lecturer's surprising and devastating conclusions.
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page 153 note 2 Professor John Wisdom has reminded me that the germ of truth in this story lies in an authentic anecdote about a lecture delivered by the great G. H. Hardy.
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