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1908 Nov 7
Logic
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I. Why, you are quite right as to my being aware that what
I saw was that Etna of which I had heard so much. For it was
only by such signs as our having been steaming almost due
west, since we had passed Taenarium, that I know we must be
about where Etna would be visible, that I knew I was looking
upon Etna. Still, I was directly aware of some object; and in
point of fact that object was Etna.

You. It is not a very correct form of expression.
I. I will render it, if not elegant, at least perspicuous, by explaining that I use the
phrase verb "to be directly aware of" as if it were a verb whose in such as sense that its direct object
does not denote an assertion nor the possession of a character, but
was is a noun which may be the subject of assertions; and that it