“Why do we thus so markedly select the tangible to be the real? Our motives are not far to seek. The
tangible qualities are the least fluctuating. When we get them at all we get
them the same. The other qualities fluctuate enormously as our relative
position to the object changes. Then, most decisive still, the tactile
properties are those most intimately connected with our weal or woe. A dagger
hurts us only when in contact with our skin….”
Principles of Psychology, chapter 21, The Perception of Reality
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