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I think I may now claim to have made my
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1 Note the ambiguity of this term, which is taken sometimes
objectively and sometimes subjectively.
2 In the _Psychological_Review_ for July [1904], Dr. R.B.Perry has
published a view of Consciousness which comes nearer to mine than any
other with which I am acquainted. At present, Dr. Perry thinks, every
field of experience is so much 'fact.' It becomes 'opinion' or
'thought' only in retrospection, when a fresh experience, thinking the
same object, alters and corrects it. But the corrective experience
becomes itself in turn corrected, and thus the experience as a whole is
a process in which what is objective originally forever turns
subjective, turns into our apprehension of the object. I strongly
recommend Dr. Perry's admirable article to my readers.
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thesis clear. Consciousness connotes a kind of
external relation, and does not denote a special
stuff or way of being. _The_peculiarity_of_our_experiences,_
_that_they_not_only_are,_but_are_known,_
_which_their_'conscious'_quality_is_invoked_to_
_explain,_is_better_explained_by_their_relations_--
_these_relations_themselves_being_experiences_--_to_
_one_another_.
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