The relevance of parapsychological phenomena for some philosophical problems
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Psychical research for the past eighty years, has produced an enormous amount of psychical evidence. The outstanding fact about psychical phenomena is that they are manifestly nonphysical in character, although they are by no means unnatural, for Nature extends beyond the domain of physical principle. What the author attempts to do in this thesis, is to provide an outline of the main types of psychical phenomena and to discuss the various philosophical problems which arise if psi evidence is to be seriously considered.
The author first turned to telepathy and clairvoyance, which are generally called extrasensory perception. The experimental evidence of telepathy demonstrated the existence of some communication of impressions from one mind to another, independently of the recognized channels of sense; and experiments in clairvoyance showed a person's ability for extrasensory perception of objects or objective events [TRUNCATED].
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