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Logic 34

is considerable he will most likely be able to do so but only at times when that movement was so slowed down that in endeavoring to tell himself what he had in mind he loses sight of that movement altogether especially with language at hand to represent attitudes of thought but not movements of thought.
Practically when a man endeavors to date what the process of his thought has been after the process has come to an end he first asks himself to what conclusion he has come. That result he formulates in an assertion which we will assume has some sort of likeness - I am inclined to think only a very conventionalized one - with the attitude of his thought at the cessation of the motion.
That having been ascertained he next asks himself how he is justified in eing so confident of it and he proceeds to cast about for a sentence expressed in words which