ABSTRACT
In psychology the word ‘feeling’ has a technical use, but here I propose to give it the wider meaning familiar in philosophy which covers sentience of every kind prior to discrimination of modalities or the distinctions between sensation, emotion and pleasure-pain tonality. The word is used here, as it was by Bradley, Collingwood 1 and others before them, to refer to the most elementary form of experience, and this I take to be the use given to it by Susanne Langer in the following quotation:
‘When the activity of some part of the nervous system reaches a critical pitch the process is felt’; 2
