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Thus the more closely we can confine our data for
reasoning about things to data that come to us through
one and the same sense channel the more apt we are to
be correct in our reasoning, even though it be much more
restricted in its scope. One of the most interesting things
in our modern scientific practice has been the invention
and perfection of methods by which the scientists can
acquire much of their basic data through one and the
same sensuous channel of awareness. I understand that
in physics, for example, the scientists are happiest when
they can get their data with the aid of some dial or other
device which can be read by vision. Thus heat, weight,
lengths, and many other things that in ordinary life are
apprehended through senses other than vision have
become for science matters of visual awareness of the
positions of mechanical pointers.