SUO: Re: 'q'
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| The quality 'q', so far, is an entirely subjective fact
| which the feeling carries so to speak endogenously, or
| in its pocket. If any one pleases to dignify so simple
| a fact as this by the name of knowledge, of course
| nothing can prevent him. But let us keep closer
| to the path of common usage, and reserve the name
| knowledge for the cognition of "realities", meaning
| by realities things that exist independently of the
| feeling through which their cognition occurs. If the
| content of the feeling occur nowhere in the universe
| outside of the feeling itself, and perish with the
| feeling, common usage refuses to call it a reality,
| and brands it as a subjective feature of the feeling's
| constitution, or at the most as the feeling's 'dream'.
|
| William James, 'The Meaning of Truth',
| Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1909,
| page 5-6.
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