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fully accepting that conception, as valid for
the universe of our possible experience. To
repeat an example I have given before, you look at an object
and say “that is red.” I ask you how you
prove that. You tell me you see it. Yes, you
see something; but you do no see that it is red;
because that it is red is a proposition; and
you do not see a proposition. What you see
is an image and has no resemblance to a proposition,
and there is no logic in saying that
your proposition is proved by the image. For
a proposition can only be logically based
on a premiss and a premiss is a proposition.
To this you very properly reply, with Kant's aid, that
my objections allege what is perfectly true