SPACE 9 



contained law. Moreover, it has no limits, for every per- 

 ceivable movement is of necessity linked up with a direction- 

 sign, which determines its position in space. 



If we recognise in what-lies-outside-ourselves the possibility 

 of movement, then space as the connection of this possibility 

 with the planes of direction, will be true " form," — namely, 

 possibility and law. 



IDENTITY OF THE OUTER AND INNER DIRECTION-SIGNS 



Space, as we have just defined it, furnishes directly the 

 " scaffolding " for our own movements, for the muscle- 

 feelings in all movements that are actually performed can 

 always be coupled with direction-signs. We must now show 

 how the other qualities make use of this scaffolding and are 

 influenced by it. This influence shows itself most clearly on 

 the direction-signs which are connected with the local signs 

 and give us information about movement in the outside world. 



The outer direction-signs, of which we distinguish two 

 kinds, i.e. transverse and longitudinal, are directly transformed 

 into the corresponding inner signs, according to the position 

 that their local signs take up with relation to the planes of 

 direction. When I detect the stroking on the back of my 

 hand, I get, over and above the sensation of touch, the 

 direction-signs, " Along . . . along . . . along " and so forth. 

 These direction-signs can be transformed every time into the 

 direction-signs, " Forward . . . forward . . . forward " and 

 so on, or " Up ... up ... up "...," To the left ... to 

 the left ... to the left "... or into the reversed signs 

 corresponding to these, according to the position which I give 

 my hand. 



If my eyes are shut, I know very little about the position 

 of my hand, on account of the imperfectly localised sensations 



