The defects in this earlier account are:--

1. The possibly undue prominence given to resembling, which altho a

fundamental function in knowing truly, is so often dispensed with;

2. The undue emphasis laid upon operating on the object itself, which in

many cases is indeed decisive of that being what we refer to, but which

is often lacking, or replaced by operations on other things related to

the object.

3. The imperfect development of the generalized notion of the

WORKABILITY of the feeling or idea as equivalent to that SATISFACTORY

ADAPTATION to the particular reality, which constitutes the truth of

the idea. It is this more generalized notion, as covering all such

specifications as pointing, fitting, operating or resembling, that

distinguishes the developed view of Dewey, Schiller, and myself.

4. The treatment, [earlier], of percepts as the only realm of reality. I

now treat concepts as a co-ordinate realm.

The next paper represents a somewhat broader grasp of the topic on the

writer's part.

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