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Logic
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Therefore, the simple satisfaction of the moment is not all. There is at least complexity. Now can the simple satisfaction of the moment be, in itself, any good, at all? Keene consciousness is emphatic in her reply that the drink is good, however small a good. But there can be no harm in a little cross-examination of the witness. An absolutly simple satisfaction will involve no comparison, no measure, no degree. It will be perfect, if it exists at all. Now [lets] be supposed that it could be proved to you that, I will not say for a moment only, ut for the entire duration of a millionth of a second, you were to enjoy a simple satisfaction say hat of an agreeable color sensation, with no effects whatever of any kind, and of course no memory of it. Then, since this satisfaction would be perfect and immeasurable, and would be, a consciousness, you say a good, [at] how much would