ABSTRACT
A completely scientific psychology would reduce every whole which seems to be a complex compounded, through the subject-object relation, of mental and physical elements to a homogeneous causal chain of the kind just indicated. From this point of view, to study aesthetics is merely to study a part of the psychological field, the part namely to which the notion of value is relevant. The purpose of Mr Richards' application of the substitution-method is based on a mistake as to what it is that a scientific explanation explains; there is no point in it unless it elucidates the intrinsic nature of the phenomena. Mr Richards' determination to exclude consciousness at all costs; he would see that both 'revelation' theories of art and Professor G. E. Moore's theory have the merit of being highly relevant to the problem. The field of the physicist prevents him from doing justice to those with whom he disagrees.
