SUO: Re: 'q'
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| Our little supposed feeling, whatever it may be,
| from the cognitive point of view, whether a bit of
| knowledge or a dream, is certainly no psychical zero.
| It is a most positively and definitely qualified inner
| fact, with a complexion all its own. Of course there
| are many mental facts which it is 'not'. It knows 'q',
| if 'q' be a reality, with a very minimum of knowledge.
| It neither dates nor locates it. It neither classes nor
| names it. And it neither knows itself as a feeling, nor
| contrasts itself with other feelings, nor estimates its
| own duration or intensity. It is, in short, if there
| is no more of it than this, a most dumb and helpless
| and useless kind of thing.
|
| William James, 'The Meaning of Truth',
| Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1909,
| page 10.
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