We operate
here by physical subtraction; and the usual
view is, that by mental subtraction we can
separate the two factors of experience in an
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1 Paul Natorp: _Einleitung_in_die_Psychologie_, 1888, pp. 14, 112.
2 "Figuratively speaking, consciousness may be said to be the one
universal solvent, or menstruum, in which the different concrete kinds
of psychic acts and facts are contained, whether in concealed or in
obvious form." G.T.Ladd: _Psychology,_Descriptive_and_Explanatory_,
1894, p.30.
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analogous way -- not isolating them entirely,
but distinguishing them enough to know that
they are two.
II
Now my contention is exactly the reverse of
this. _Experience,_I_believe,_has_no_such_inner_duplicity;_
_and_the_separation_of_it_into_consciousness_
_and_content_comes,_not_by_way_of_subtraction,_
_but_by_way_of_addition_ -- the addition, to a
given concrete piece of it, other sets of experiences,
in connection with which severally its
use or function may be of two different kinds.
The paint will also serve here as an illustration.
In a pot in a paint-shop, along with other
paints, it serves in its entirety as so much saleable
matter.
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