Diagnosis : and spiritual healing / [F.G. Crookshank].

  • Crookshank, F. G. (Francis Graham), 1873-1933.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Diagnosis : and spiritual healing / [F.G. Crookshank]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    less so to distinguish between the Names by which we express our Thoughts about Things, these Thoughts, and the Things that are thought about. This triple distinction between what I have called Names, Notions, and Happenings—or as Messrs. Ogden and Richards say, perhaps with greater propriety, Words, Thoughts, and Things—should be maintained during every discussion. We should therefore think separately: of diagnosis, the name, or verbal symbol: of the notions for which this symbol has stood, and the explanations thereof ; and of the processes concerning which these notions and explanations have been entertained. In so doing we follow the injunction of William of Occam, greatest of English philoso¬ phers, and choose always the suppositio beneath the word ; whether the Word be employed physically, or materialiter, pro voce: conceptually, or simpliciter, pro intentionae animae: representat¬ ively, or personaliter, pro re. This is what Ogden and Richards intend when they speak of the Word or Symbol, standing for a mental Reference, which