Provenance
Source & edition record
This page records where the text came from, what changed in presentation, and what remains unverified.
Bibliographic source
- Work
- The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
- Author
- John Dewey
- First publication
- Psychological Review, 1896, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 357-370. DOI: 10.1037/h0070405
- Source edition
- Psychological Review, vol. 3, no. 4, 1896, pp. 357-370
- Accessed
- 2026-08-20
- Verification
- source-compared
- Source snapshot SHA-256
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Transformations
- Removed the source-host wrapper and the work-specific excluded matter recorded in the source manifest.
- Preserved source wording, spelling, punctuation, order, and plain-text emphasis markers.
- Normalised mechanical whitespace and line wrapping, while preserving diagrams and tables verbatim.
- Added semantic section files, stable routes, source-fragment links, and deterministic anchors.
- Preserved the frozen source transcription except for exact, count-bound corrections recorded against the original scan.
- Converted bracket-number note markers and definitions into stable section-local Markdown footnotes.
- Converted the checksum-bound York University HTML into deterministic block text while preserving paragraph order, emphasis, and note relationships.
- Restored thirty-eight scan-verified transcription defects, including one omitted clause and one omitted word, using exact count-bound corrections.
- Removed only source-host navigation, attribution wrapper, and the mechanical rule before the relocated endnotes.
- Compared every paragraph and all six notes against printed pages 357-370 of the first publication.
Edition collation
The reading text derives from a frozen York University transcription and was checked throughout against the exact 1896 Psychological Review scan. Thirty-eight exact corrections restore first-publication wording and punctuation without modernizing Dewey's prose.
Witnesses
- Psychological Review first publication, 1896: Exact first-publication witness, printed pp. 357-370. PDF SHA-256
f3399cd15b2260b904e89655ab6060ff9b24093614b7dc2b28c2e0b564840d78. - York University Classics in the History of Psychology transcription: Readable transcription witness, frozen before count-bound scan corrections. PDF SHA-256
eecdecc625b4b1e271e0ca90308f12aacb4edbc6ad822cca67ac8c8d569de2ce.
Substantive earlier readings
| Location | Earlier witness | Rendered source edition |
|---|---|---|
| p. 358 | the central activity, standing for the idea, is another thing | is another thing omitted |
| p. 364 | the original visual quale | visual omitted |
| p. 370 | if the activity affords its own adequate stimulation | if omitted |
| passim | first-publication punctuation, spacing, and unbroken words | thirty-five additional mechanical transcription defects |
Rights status
public-domain. The article was published in 1896 and is public domain in the United States. Internet Archive marks the exact scan with the Public Domain Mark. This publication decision applies to US availability; readers elsewhere should check local law. View the rights record ↗