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Charles A. Mercier examines the reasoning and evidence behind Sir Oliver Lodge’s accounts of spirit communication. Beginning with the assumptions that connect a séance observation to a claim about survival after death, he considers what an investigation must establish before it can exclude alternative explanations.
The discussion brings questions of logic, suggestion, psychological interpretation and experimental control to reported messages and mediumistic performances. Mercier distinguishes a witness’s confidence from the strength of the inference being drawn. This is the complete original 1917 book, preserving its argument, examples and concluding material.