ABSTRACT
The relation of spatio-temporal interiority.—I follow with my eye the flight of an eagle crossing my field of vision with a slow and continuous swoop. The whole event forms a single visual term. In the middle of his flight, the eagle flapped his wings once. Between these two events as I saw them there stands out a very clear and very simple relation which I express by saying that the first of these two sensed terms is interior to the second.—Shutting my eyes, I slide a pencil over the fingers of my open left hand. Between the event of the passage of the pencil over my index finger and the larger event of the passage of the pencil over my whole hand, I apprehend again a very clear relation, which appears to be the same as the previous one, and which makes me say again that this term is interior to that term.—It is constantly the same relation that also appears to me between the sound of a word and the sound of the sentence in which it occurs, between the coloured spot of a painted figure and the greater spread of the whole of the picture in which it is contained. This relation of interiority is clear and manifests itself distinctly and prominently in every case.
