5 MAY 1973, Page 25

Sir: I read, with considerable interest, Anthony W. Clare's article on Eysenck i . Apil 2 I )

By promoting algebraic logic, Bertrand Russell produced a philosophy divorced from ideas. The introduction of cards into the study of ESP removed from that study all the mysticism and most of the interest.

May I suggest that a fully scientific approach to psychology will enable that branch of learning to dissociate itself entirely from the imponderable and sometimes illogical behaviour of human beings,

John Lavender 308 Pensby Road, Pensby, Wirral, Cheshire