ABSTRACT
This chapter provides experimental details about a man named as Sultan. Sultan spends considerable time in gnawing the end of a board that he wishes to fit into a hollow tube; and yet this gnawing of wood at the end of a stick is an activity which, considered separately, is meaningless in relation to his objective. Sultan is squatting at the bars, but cannot reach the fruit, which lies outside, by means of his only available short stick. A longer stick is deposited outside the bars, about two metres on one side of the objective, and parallel with the grating. The experiment also shows that obstinate attempts to gain the mid-objective, although prompted by the desire to attain the final one, can displace this to a certain extent, so that at the end of the minor activity there is a check.
