SUO: Re: 'q'
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| Now obviously if our supposed feeling of 'q'
| is (if knowledge at all) only knowledge of the
| mere acquaintance-type, it is milking a he-goat,
| as the ancients would have said, to try to extract
| from it any deliverance 'about' anything under the sun,
| even about itself. And it is as unjust, after our failure,
| to turn upon it and call it a psychical nothing, as it would be,
| after our fruitless attack upon the billy-goat, to proclaim the
| non-lactiferous character of the whole goat-tribe.
|
| William James, 'The Meaning of Truth',
| Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1909,
| page 12.
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