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1908 Nov 5
Logic
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an object of any kind of which a person is aware not merely in being first aware
in something else, but directly. This word 'directly' is not expressive,
and needs to be illustrated. Yet there will be a serious difficulty in
attempting to elucidate my meaning in that way. It is that you
may think that objects which I adduce as examples of objects of
which our awareness is not direct, in truth so manifestly have the
character which I have in mind when I say
of objects that one is directly aware of them that it will
seem to you inconceivable that I should use the term in that
sense when I deny of my instances their being directly apprehended.
The reverse misunderstanding may equally occur I must therefore
explain why I consider each object instanced to be one
of which we are directly aware or else indirectly; an in thus giving