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	THE DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIENCE
I.	We can seek to give a psychophysical account of pure cognitive experience and this will not be a metaphysical undertaking, for the concepts will not be used with a metaphysical purpose	34
II.	The concept of psychophysical parallelism is employed in the interest not of ultimate explanation but of description	35
III.	The theories of Avenarius are not concerned with metaphysical problems	38
IV.	Science seeks to discover the ‘How’ of experience. Metaphysics seeks to discover the ‘Why’ of experience. The experience which science describes and metaphysics explains is experience characterized by the natural view of the world	56
	THE EXPLANATION OF EXPERIENCE
I.	Explanation in metaphysics differs from scientific description in that the former attaches the predicate of existence to its concept of reality. The demand for the existential predicate is an emotional demand	60
II.	The new epistemology of science will bring it to pass that reputable philosophy will not seek reality behind and different from the world of concrete experience	61
	SUGGESTIONS TOWARD A CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE
	The concept suggested is that of the historical process which, starting from animism, has led to the modern concept of nature elaborated by the special sciences. The concept is suggested in the interest of history	71
	AN EMPIRICAL DEFINITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
	Consciousness means experience that can belong to only one observer. Consciousness thus defined ceases to be a basis for idealism. There remains the natural view of the world	73