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Nature consists of the elements given by the senses. Primitive man first takes out of them certain complexes of these elements that present themselves with a certain stability and are most important to him. The first and oldest words are names for "things". … The sensations are no "symbols of things". On the contrary the "thing" is a mental symbol for a sensation-complex of relative stability. Not the things, the bodies, but colours, sounds, pressures, times (what we usually call sensations) are the true elements of the world.
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The aim of research is the discovery of the equations which subsist between the elements of phenomena.
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Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes)
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Properly speaking the world is not composed of "things" as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call individual sensations.
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Economy of communication and of apprehension is of the very essence of science. Herein lies its pacificatory, its enlightening, its refining element.
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Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.
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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
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Born:
February 18, 1838
Died:
February 19, 1916
(aged 78)
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