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Index-Card-J-32-05 DEH We recognise the tune we have been seeking in our minds for — in virtue of already existing knowledge of it. Then we must have been aware of the tune all the while! Plate said we can never obtain new knowledge… It follows that to know that my image is of St Paul’s, I must be also directly aware of St Paul’s. But what is the use, then, of the image or representation of St Paul’s? Why attend to the image or past fact if we are aware of fact itself. In memory, then, we apparently dispense with intervening images & return to the fact we remember, re-experiencing it now by mind as directly as heretofore by sense…. (2) Cf Bergson & thinking with one’s whole past. (3) When Samuel Butler’s theory of extensions so forcibly struck me as significant, it could only be because I knew it already in a less explicit fashion…
Index Card J-32
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