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1908 Nov 16
Logic
I.i. 2

of senses and of associations, which must render communication
next to impossible. But supposing that I were to discover
that a certain kind of effort on my part would produce upon
you a sensation of which I had some vague reminiscence, and
which in point of fact would be for you the sound of a loud rap.
Then, passing over a number of difficulties, such as that for the
first few years of my abode in the new world, I should doubtless
be as helpless a state of mind as a baby is in this world, there must,
I should think remain the insuperable difficulty that all
my ways of putting elements of experience together into concepts must,
in an environment so utterly unlike the present, be without one feature
of resemblance to what yours would continue to be. It is true that
in the such slight reports as have reached me of the floods of discourse that