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Suppose a state of things of a perfectly definite,
general description. That is, there must be no room for doubt as
to whether anything, itseld determinates, would or would not come under that descrip-
tion. And suppose, farther, that this description refers to nothing
occult, - nothing that cannot be summoned up fully into
the imagination. S̶u̶p̶p̶o̶s̶e̶ Assume, then, a range of possibilities equally
definite and equally subject to the imagination; so that, so
far as the given description of the supposed state of things
is general, the different ways in which it might be made
determinate could never introduce doubtful or occult features.
The assumption, for example, must not refer to any matter
of fact. For questions of fact are not within the [purview?] of the
imagination. Nor must it a̶l̶l̶ be such that, for example,
it could lead us to ask whether the vowel oo can be ima-
gined the sounded on as high a pitch as the vowel EE. Per-
haps it would have to be restricted to [pme?] spatial, temperal, and
logical relations. Be that as it may, the question whether,