Telegram Argument
Telegram Argument
Argument for the efficacy of mind resting on a radical difference of response to two slightly differing stimuli because of their difference of meaning. The Telegram Argument is so called because of the illustration of two telegrams”Our son has been killed” and “Your son has been killed” received by parents whose son is away from home and whose difference of reading depends only on the presence or absence of the letter “Y”. See C. D. Broad, The Mind and tts Place in Nature, pp. 118 ff.