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Logic 113

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An absolutely pure conception of a Category is out of the question.
Being in futuro appears in mental forms intentions and expectations.
Memory supplies us a knowledge of the past be a sort of brute force a quite binary action without any reasoning.
But all our knowledge of the future is obtained through the medium of something else.
To say that the future does not influence the present is untenable doctrine.
It is as much as to say that there are no final causes or ends.
The organic world is full of refutations of that position.
Such action constitutes evolution.
But it is true that the future does not influence the present in the direct dualistic way in which the past influences the present.
A machinery a medium is required.
Yet what kind of machinery can it be?
Can the future affect the past by any machinery