THE CONTENT-QUALITIES 



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beneath the sway of the laws of our attention ; and, as soon 

 as our attention is directed to them, we cannot free them from 

 these laws. I have tried to reproduce this in the accompany- 

 ing figure, in which the indications A-K, which make up the 

 world of the animal, are connected by lines to the observer. 

 Since we are not in a position to investigate the appearance- 

 world of another subject, but only that part of our appearance- 

 world surrounding it, we had better 

 speak of the surrounding-world of 

 the animal. It is only for the ob- 

 server himself that the surround- 

 ing-world and the appearance-world 

 are identical. 



The material from which the sur- 

 rounding-world of another is built 

 up, invariably consists of our own 

 objectivated quality, for no other 

 qualities are accessible to us. The 

 only difference from our own sur- 

 rounding-world is that the qualities 

 are fewer in number. As soon, how- 

 ever, as qualities from the same 

 indication-circle are present, they 

 come under the laws of the forms 



of our attention. A place which for us lies more to the left 

 than does another, lies further to the left in the surrounding- 

 world of the other subject also,, given that both the places 

 are present in that world as indications ; and this is true 

 even if the number of place-indications separating the two is 

 smaller than in our world. A moment which follows another 

 moment in our world can never become the earlier one in 

 the world of the other subject, if both are present in it as 

 indications. In like manner, the relation of two sounds in 

 our world can never be reversed in the surrounding-world 



f}g.,2 



