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however, incognisable or unknowable on that account. The view that the subject-matter of the fourth mode of predication is beyond the ken of the direot as well as the indireot forms. of knowledge is due to a misconception about the scope of their subject--matters. It is not corroct to say that perception grasps only the particular feature of an object. A perception is not rigidly isolated from the conscious flow; it is influenced by what preceded it and is open modified by the percipient's future aims and aspirations. It has elements of imagination, both reproductive and productive, involved in it, a. considerable amount of conceptual matter. Besides the apprehension of partioularity which is perception proper and the ideational factors mixed up with it, a perception gives us the idea of the object as a whole, as a back-ground of organised unification or harmonisation of its varying elements. In conception, similarly, we have the idea of a group of common features, tinged with the hue of the perception of the particular individual of the moment and in addition to the cognition of this generality and the partioularity, an idea of the unified totality of the concept. Thus both in perception and
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