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Resource ID
1057
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
Category
LOGIC (MS 339-1009)
description
CSP's estimation of his own mental powers. He speaks of having heard "the most extravagant estimates placed upon my mental powers." ". . . my principal deficiency, which is that my brain is small. This renders me incapable of thoroughly grasping together any considerable number of details; and one consequence is that I do not readily pass from one subject, or occupation of thought, to another; whence my persistency." Linguistic expression is not natural to CSP, who claims never to think in words, but always in some kind of diagram. His difficulties with foreign languages. "In college, I received the most humiliating marks for my themes.... My amicable teacher Professor Francis James Child . . . thought I took no pains. But I did." CSP attributes his awkwardness of linguistic expression to his left-handedness, noting that he once wrote with facility right-handed. To grasp what abstract thought is about requires more than reading about doing something - it requires actually doing it. The "literary" habit - CSP's term for it - is ruinous.
general index
Autobiographical references, Child Francis j., Logic (modal see Modality), Meaning
pagination
pp. 1-27, plus fragments
Date
1909-10-24/1909-10-29
manuscript number
632
publication
n.p.
topic
LOGIC / MISCELLANEOUS 1869- 1913
manuscript contains non-textual content
no