Tertium Organum



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direct method 
of objective investigation, without the help
of speech,
or without the aid of deduction 
by analogy 
we shall not discover 
any psychological life in another man. That which is inaccessible to a direct 
method of investigation, and yet 
exists,
is 
NOUMENAL
. Consequently we shall 
not be able to determine the function and meaning of man in a section of the 
world other than the world of Euclidean geometry which is alone accessible 
to 'direct methods of investigation'. Therefore we have every right to regard
'man's mind' as his function in a section of the world different from the 
three­
dimensional
section in which 'man's body' functions. 
Having established this, we may ask ourselves the question: have we not 
the right to draw the reverse conclusion and regard the unknown function of 
the 'world' and of 'things' outside the three-dimensional section as 
their own 
kind of mind? 
Our ordinary positivist view regards 
mind as the function of the brain. 
Without the brain we cannot imagine any mental life. 
Max Nordau, when wishing to imagine the 'world's consciousness' (in 
Paradoxes) 
had to say that we cannot be certain that somewhere in the 
infinite space of the universe 
is not repeated on a colossal scale the 


same combination of physical and chemical elements as constitutes our brain
This is 
very characteristic and typical of 'positivist science' Wishing to imagine the 'world's 
consciousness', positivism must first of all imagine a 
gigantic brain
Does not this at 
once savour of the two-dimensional plane-world? In actual fact the idea of a gigantic 
brain somewhere beyond the stars shows the astonishing poverty and feebleness of 
positivist thought This thought cannot get out of the customary rut, and it has no wings 
to fly 
Imagine some inquiring inhabitant of seventeenth-century Europe trying to visualize 
the means of transportation of the twentieth century and picturing to himself an 
enormous stage-coach, the size of a large inn, drawn by a thousand horses He would be 
very near the truth . . and at the same time infinitely far from it And yet even in his 
time there were some minds which worked in the right direction
the idea of a steam engine was already shaping itself, models were already appearing 
The thought expressed by Nordau is reminiscent of the favourite theories of popular 
philosophy relating to an idea casually picked up, that the planets and stars of the 
visible world are merely the molecules of some great body, of which our universe is 
but an insignificant part. . . . 
'Perhaps the whole universe is contained in the little finger of some great being,' says 
a philosophizing man-in-the-street. 'And perhaps our molecules are also worlds. 
Maybe my little finger also holds several universes!' And the man-in-the-street 
becomes frightened. But all such reasonings are nothing but a gigantic 
stage-coach.* 
Such reasoning is similar to the reflections of a little girl about whom I once read, I 
think, in the 
Theosophical Review.
The girl sat by the fire; beside her slept a cat. 'Here 
is the cat, asleep,' thought the little girl, 'Perhaps it is dreaming that it is not a cat but a 
little girl. And maybe I am 
not really a little girl at all, but a cat, and I am only 
dreaming that I am a little girl. . . 
.' The next moment a piercing shriek shakes the 
house and the little girl's parents have a hard time to persuade her that she is not a cat 
but truly a little girl. 
All this shows that philosophizing needs a certain skill. Our thought is surrounded 
by a great many blind alleys And positivism, 
* The error lies here not in the idea itself but in the literal analogy In itself the idea 
that molecules are worlds and worlds are molecules is absolutely correct and is worthy 
of attention and study, it may serve as a means for a right understanding of the world 
My readers will have to meet with this idea later and then they will see how much is 
contained in this idea and how much is explained by taking this idea as one's starting 
point But the same thought, enclosed in a literal analogy without the idea of the 
Unknown and the Unknowable, is destroyed and becomes a caricature 


always and everywhere trying to apply the rule of three, is a blind alley in 
itself. 
Our analysis of phenomena and the relation we have established between 
physical phenomena, phenomena of life and psychological phenomena 
permits us to affirm 

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