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2 revisions | jasirs94 at Nov 26, 2016 09:31 PM | |
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129Classification of the Sci. unity other than the unity of similarity. But in classifying the instincts we rely on our common sense to pronounce (as we hope, not too mistakenly) that certain resemblances in conduct are due to some very deep-lying resemblances in the mean's natures, whatever those natures may consist in. It is a very vague idea, but it is the best we can compass, at present. This common sense to which we trust ourselves in this proceeding is itself of the nature of an instinct. For there is such a thing as instinctive knowledge. It is true that our learned trio insist upon limiting the action of instinct to the "sensori-motor" type, thereby excluding all reason, thought, imagination, deliberation from the smallest participation in it. But under that definition man has no instincts, unless they be merely manifestations of mind under great strain; and it is more than doubtful whether those mammals, birds, and insects that are commonly instanced | 129 |