(2) The
room thus again gets counted twice over. It
plays two different roles, being _Gedanke_ and
_Gedachtes_, the thought-of-an-object, and the
object-thought-of, both in one; and all this
without paradox or mystery, just as the same
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1 Cf. A.L. Hodder: _The_Adversaries_of_the_Sceptic_, pp.94-99.
2 For simplicity's sake I confine my exposition to 'external'
reality. But there is also the system of ideal reality in which the
room plays its part. Relations of comparison, of classification,
serial order, value, also are stubborn, assign a definite place to the
room, unlike the incoherence of its places in the mere rhapsody of our
successive thoughts.
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material thing may be both low and high, or
small and great, or bad and good, because of its
relations to opposite parts of an environing
world.
As 'subjective' we say that the experience
represents; as 'objective' it is represented.
What represents and what is represented is here
numerically the same; but we must remember
that no dualism of being represented and representing
resides in the experience _per_se_. In
its pure state, or when isolated, there is no self-
splitting of it into consciousness and what the
consciousness is 'of.
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