ONT Re: Manifolds Of Sensuous Impressions (MOSI's)
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Apostrophe to 'q'
| The point of this vindication of the cognitive function
| of the first feeling lies, it will be noticed, in the
| discovery that 'q' does exist elsewhere than in it.
| In case this discovery were not made, we could not
| be sure the feeling was cognitive; and in case
| there were nothing outside to be discovered,
| we should have to call the feeling a dream.
| But the feeling itself cannot make the
| discovery. Its own 'q' is the only
| 'q' it grasps; and its own nature
| is not a particle altered by
| having the self-transcendent
| function of cognition either
| added to it or taken away.
| The function is accidental;
| synthetic, not analytic;
| and falls outside and
| not inside its being.
|
| James, "Func of Cog", page 16.
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| William James, "The Function Of Cognition",
| Read before the Aristotelian Society, 1 Dec 1884.
| First published in 'Mind', 10 (1885). Reprinted in
|'The Meaning Of Truth, A Sequel To "Pragmatism"',
| Longmans, Green, & Company, London, UK, 1909.
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