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fully accepting that conception, as valid for
the universe of our possible experience. To
repeat an example I have given before, you look at an object
and say “that is red.” I ask you how you
prove that. You tell me you see it. Yes, you
see something; but you do no see that it is red;
because that it is red is a proposition; and
you do not see a proposition. What you see
is an image and has no resemblance to a proposition,
and there is no logic in saying that
your proposition is proved by the image. For
a proposition can only be logically based
on a premiss and a premiss is a proposition.
To this you very properly reply, with Kant's aid, that
my objections allege what is perfectly true

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fully accepting that conception, as valid for the universe of pur possible experience.
To repeat an example I have given before, you look at an object and say "that is red."
I ask you how you prove that.
You tell one you see it.
Yes, you see something; but you do no see [u]that it is red[/u]; because [u]that it is red[/u] is a proposition; and you do not see a proposition.
What you see is an image and has no resemblance to a proposition, and there is no logic in saying that your proposition is proved by the image.
For a proposition can only be logically based on a premiss and a premiss is a proposition.
To this you very properly reply, with Kant's aid, that my objections allege what is perfectly true