ABSTRACT
When treating of the relation of cointension, it was pointed out that changes in consciousness are of several classes. As subsisting between relations, therefore, the relation of connature must be defined as—likeness of kind between two changes in consciousness. Simple or complex as the states of consciousness themselves may be, it is manifest that the transition from state to state is in all cases simple; and when two of these transitions produce in us two like feelings, we know nothing more than that we have the like feelings. It is true, as will be shown in a subsequent chapter, that it is possible to say specifically what we mean by asserting the likeness of these feelings. As subsisting between relations, therefore, the relation of connature must be defined as—likeness of kind between two changes in consciousness.
