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1908 Nov 9
Logic
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chilled in liquid helium. But it is all right: that is just the
stuff for us anatomists of thought to make our scalpels of; which
though they are not the only dissecting instruments we have, for they
will not answer for making microscopic sections, are the most
serviceable of our tools for our ordinary cuttings,--I mean words, brought
to the finest and smoothest edge that definition can effect. So the
chillier the head of any disciple of mine, the more my heart will
warm to him. "Give me the man that is not passion's slave."
As for my phrase "to be directly aware of an object," if it lacks the
elegance my Longinus would wish for, I shall at least impart
scientific perspicuity to it, by explaining that, as I use it, it is equivalent
to a transitive verb whose direct object does not denote an
assertion nor the possession of any character but is equivalent to a