"Essays in Radical Empiricism" - читать интересную книгу автора (James William)

the paradox that what is evidently one reality
should be in two places at once, both in outer
space and in a person's mind. 'Representative'

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theories of perception avoid the logical
paradox, but on the other hand the violate the
reader's sense of life, which knows no intervening
mental image but seems to see the room
and the book immediately just as they physically
exist.
The puzzle of how the one identical room can
be in two places is at bottom just the puzzle of
how one identical point can be on two lines. It
can, if it be situated at their intersection; and
similarly, if the 'pure experience' of the room
were a place of intersection of two processes,
which connected it with different groups of associates
respectively, it could be counted twice
over, as belonging to either group, and spoken
of loosely as existing in two places, although it
would remain all the time a numerically single
thing.
Well, the experience is a member of diverse
processes that can be followed away from it
along entirely different lines. The one self-
identical thing has so many relations to the
rest of experience that you can take it in disparate
systems of association, and treat it as

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belonging with opposite contexts. In one of
these contexts it is your 'field of consciousness';
in another it is 'the room in which you
sit,' and it enters both contexts in its wholeness,
giving no pretext for being said to attach
itself to consciousness by one of its parts or
aspects, and to out reality by another. What
are the two processes, now, into which the
room-experience simultaneously enters in this
way?
One of them is the reader's personal biography,
the other is the history of the house of
which the room is part. The presentation, the
experience, the _that_ in short (for until we have
decided _what_ it is it must be a mere _that_) is the
last term in a train of sensations, emotions,
decisions, movements, classifications, expectations,
etc., ending in the present, and the first
term in a series of 'inner' operations