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complete and would remain so, were its predecessor quite for- 

 gotten. Whether I say, then, ^'Ile is going . . ."or 

 ■^^Brown is going . . . ", my second thought and all its fac- 

 tors are the same ; and this second thought in both cases is dif- 

 ferent and separate from the first. I may then safely say that 

 the idea expressed by Brown (1) belongs to one thought ; the idea 

 expressed by Brown (2) or by "He" belongs to another thought. 

 The odea named by Brown (1) fades at the sentence-end to such 

 :an extent, that it will not appear in the second thought, unless 

 recalled. Having said, "I just met Brown", if I continue with 

 ^'1 was wearing: mv new coat", you hardlv think ae^ain of Brown. 

 But if, instead, I continue by saying "He is going to Europe", 

 the idea named by "Browm" is revived and serves again as part 

 -of my second thought. This idea serves then twice, once as part 

 of one thought, and again as part of another. But it ended the 

 first service before it beo-an the second. Between the two it 

 lost thought-membership. It was first established in attention 

 by the initiative "Brown". At the sentence-end it w^as dises- 

 tablished. It was reestablished or reinstated in attention by 

 "He". Yfords which thus restore lost status, may conveniently 

 be known as reestablishers or reinstatives. 



Case 11. Principal and Proxy in the Same Thought — Coin- 

 statement. 



That a given idea may be twice used in the same thought 

 is indicated by the algebraic ".r^ = 2x'\ Wishing, in the ex- 

 amination of this usage, the advantage of comparison with the 

 preceding, I use linguistic illustrations of both and j)ut them 

 side bv side. Accordin2:lv, as before, 



Case I. "I just met Brown. He is going to Europe", and 



Case II. ''Broion has bought him a horse." 



In several aspects these examples are alike. In both, the 

 proxy is retrospective. In both the idea named by "Brown" 

 begins at once to fade and continues to fade until revival. This 

 revival is accomplished in both cases by the same means and 

 with the same success. That is, the idea is restored to its origi- 

 nal freshness. 



They differ somewhat in this, that the idea revived by "He" 



