THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS

Sub-Station 84, New York City, October 25,1920.

Dr. J. R. Kantor,
645 North Walnut St.,
Bloomington,Indiana.

My dear Dr. Kantor:

      Let me thank you for your paper on the primary

data of psychology. We shall be very glad to print it.

      I should like to add to this formal acceptance

an expression of the interest and profit with which

I have read your paper. It seems to me that you have

done a very significant thing in the way of clarify-

ing the behavioristic point of view and the material

with which a behavioristic psychologist deals. I

have the feeling that in your treatment of responses

you have not as fully worked away from some of the

prepossessions of the psychology of mental states as

you have in the other portions of your paper. An in-

stance of what I mean is found in your statement:

"Another mode of classifying reaction systems is the

consideration of them as actually occurring responses ,

or as latent forms of adaptation to surrounding ob-

jects." After all, is it not enough to treat them

simply as actually occurring responses, and leave the

notion of latent forms of adaptation to go into the

great mass of other confused ideas which you have

rejected?

              Very truly yours,