ABSTRACT
I think we often cause ourselves unnecessary trouble by the un spoken assumptions which we leave unexplored behind the questions which we debate. This meeting would not have been entitled “Mind and the Physical World” unless those who were to attend it were expected to find something odd in the appearance of what they mean by mind in what they call the physical world. It is true that Western men for a few centuries have found an oddity here, inherent in the way they have defined the physical world; and they have continued to find it odd even while they have redefined the physical world out of all recognition. But is there still any ground for surprise? Have not all the conceptual impediments been leached away?
