[FZ]We do not speak of the filling in the complement of a percept (the construction of the object at the bidding of a simple impression) as a matter of conscious inference. I do not consciously infer that yonder moss-rose is scented. Scent is an integral part of the construct. From the appearance of the rose, I may, however, infer that a rose-chafer has disturbed its petals. The complement of the percept, if inferred at all, is unconsciously inferred.
[GA]"Outlines of Psychology," p. 392.
[GB]"Outlines of Psychology," p. 414.
[GC]Mr. Romanes adopts a different use of the terms "reason" and "rational," to which allusion will be made in the next chapter.
[GD]"Chapters on Animals," p. 9.
[GE]Or perhaps we may say, in the language of analogy, that when the germinal psychoplasm of some dim form of organic memory is fertilized by the union therewith of the more active male element of discrimination, a process of segmentation of the psychoplasm sets in by which, in process of differentiation, the tissues and organs of the mind are eventually developed.
[GF]Nature, vol. xxxviii. p. 257.
[GG]For examples, see Romanes's "Animal Intelligence," p. 455.
[GH]I use the word "arbitrary" in the sense that they form no part of the normal construct such as would be formed by the animal.
[GI]"The Senses of Animals," p. 277.