SUO: Re: 'q'
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| Some persons will immediately cry out, "How 'can'
| a reality resemble a feeling?" Here we find how
| wise we were to name the quality of the feeling
| by an algebraic letter 'q'. We flank the whole
| difficulty of resemblance between an inner state
| and an outward reality, by leaving it free to any
| one to postulate as the reality whatever sort of
| thing he thinks 'can' resemble a feeling, -- if
| not an outward thing, then another feeling like
| the first one, -- the mere feeling 'q' in the
| critic's mind for example.
|
| William James, 'The Meaning of Truth',
| Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1909,
| page 8.
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