A01=Norman Malcolm
Affirmative Evidence
Author_Norman Malcolm
Category=JMA
Category=JMR
Category=JMT
Category=QDTM
cognitive processes during sleep
Coherence Principle
Complete Primitive Language
consciousness studies
Dream Recall
Dream Report
Dreamless Sleep
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Follow
Holding
Hypnotic Trance
Incline
Indicative Sentence
Intelligible Sentence
Logical Contraries
mental acts analysis
Outward Criteria
phenomenology of sleep
philosophy of mind
Physical Time
Physiological Criterion
Psychological Sentences
Qualified Assertion
Queer Phenomenon
Rapid Eye Movements
scepticism and perception
sleep cognition
Slight Noise
Sore Foot
Tactual Contents
Unpleasant Dream
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138231221
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1959, with some corrections in 1962, the author examines the common view at the time that dreams are mental activities or mental occurrences taking place during sleep. He starts off by offering a proof that the sentence ‘I am asleep’ is a senseless form of words and cannot express a judgment. After commenting on various features of the concept of sleep, the author expands his argument to prove that the notion of making any judgment at all while asleep is without sense. He takes the further step of showing that this same conclusion holds for all other mental acts and mental occurrences, with the exception of dreams.
