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gnox at Jul 20, 2018 03:07 PM

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φαν11 ter [Next comes φαν11 ter continued]

Besides, there present themselves, at this stage of our meditation,
some curious distinctions for which no parallels occur to me beyond the sphere
of thought. Namely, we have, in the first place, to distinguish between waking thought,—
thought clothed and in its right mind,— thought in full possession of its own essential
faculties,— and what I may call hypnotic thought, which is confined to thinking what has
been explicitly and very imperatively suggested to it to think, and can think of nothing else. You
may object that the so-called hypnotic thought has either not been deprived of any essential character of thought, as I talk as if it had, or else, by the definition of the term
“essential,” is not properly called “thought,” at all. Well, well; the fixing up of its phrases
belongs to the decorative department of the edification, or [???????]: at present we are engaged upon in the structural part of the work of science,— or its ecodomesis, if I may
borrow a word from Plato, who, I fancy, copied it from Thucydides;— at present, we have not come to that stage of the work, being still occupied with structural parts.
I do not see anything exorbitant in my petition to be allowed to use the word ‘thought’, as it is often
used, though not with very accurate discrimination, to denote the only thing that is stowed [over]

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