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Date: January, 1884

"The demand for atoms of feeling, which shall be real units, seems a sheer vagary, an illegitimate metaphor."

— James, William (1842-1910)

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Date: January, 1884

"The best symbol for [the brain] seems to be an electric conductor, the amount of whose charge at any one point is a function of the total charge elsewhere."

— James, William (1842-1910)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.