,
are capable of leading to and terminating in)
one self-same piece, M, of sensible experience.
This persistent identity of certain units (or
emphases, or points, or objects, or members --
call them what you will) of the experience-
continuum, is just one of those conjunctive
---
1 Technically, it seems classable as a 'fallacy of composition.' A
duality, predicable of the two wholes, L-M and M-N, is
forthwith predicated of one of their parts, M.
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features of it, on which I am obliged to insist
so emphatically.(1) For samenesses are parts of
experience's indefeasible structure. When I
hear a bell-stroke and, as life flows on, its after
image dies away, I still hark back to it as 'that
same bell-stroke.' When I see a thing M, with
L to the left of it and N to the right of it, I see
it _as_ one M; and if you tell me I have had
to 'take' it twice, I reply that if I 'took' it a
thousand times I should still _see_it as a unity.(2)
Its unity is aboriginal, just as the multiplicity
of my successive takings is aboriginal. It
comes unbroken as _that_ M, as a singular which
I encounter; they come broken, as _those_ takings,
as my plurality of operations. The unity
and the separateness are strictly co-ordinate.
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