[MD] Reading & Comprehension

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Krimel, DMB, All!

22 June Krimel quoted William James for the benefit of DMB:

> Surely, you might argue that this is young James and you love old
> James but here is old James from "Some Problems of Philosophy":
 
    "The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his 
    substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in 
    which his experience originally comes. But before tracing the 
    consequences of the substitution, I must say something about 
    the conceptual order itself. Trains of concepts unmixed with 
    percepts grow frequent in the adult mind; and parts of these 
    conceptual trains arrest our attention just as parts of the 
    perceptual flow did, giving rise to concepts of a higher order of 
    abstractness."  

"Substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which 
his experience originally comes."  means that in the mind of man there 
is constructed a SUBJECTIVE shadow of reality as it OBJECTIVELY 
is. So again: Intellect is NOT solely the conceptual order (mind) itself, 
but the aggregate of - or distinction between these two "orders". See 
DMB, your assertion that James' "Reality/Concept" corresponds to the 
DQ/SQ is wrong. On the other hand it corresponds to SOM and the 
SOL is affirmed ....again and again! 

Bodvar