Abstract

Obviously any thinking a human being can do is human thinking. Any thinking a dog can do is doggish thinking. There is, however, one difference. A dog cannot think that he is thinking doggishly; but a man can think that he is thinking humanly. Every animal is in the prison of its own nature; but only genuinely "thinking" animals can know that this is so. To know a mental limit as such is to be, in some sense and degree, beyond that limit. In what sense and to what degree—this I take to be the question to be dealt with in this issue of The Monist.