78 THE EXPERIMENTAL THEORY 



This means a specific case, a sample. Yet in 

 stances are proverbially dangerous so naively 

 and graciously may they beg the questions at issue. 

 Our recourse is to an example so simple, so much 

 on its face as to be as innocent as may be of as 

 sumptions. This case we shall gradually compli 

 cate, mindful at each step to state just what new 

 elements are introduced. Let us suppose a smell, 

 just a floating odor. This odor may be anchored 

 by supposing that it moves to action; it starts 

 changes that end in picking and enjoying a rose. 

 This description is intended to apply to the course 

 of events witnessed and recounted from without. 

 What sort of a course must it be to constitute a 

 knowledge, or to have somewhere within its career 

 that which deserves this title? The smell, im 

 primis, is there; the movements that it excites are 

 there ; the final plucking and gratification are ex 

 perienced. But, let us say, the smell is not the 

 smell of the rose; the resulting change of the or 

 ganism is not a sense of walking and reaching ; the 

 delicious finale is not the fulfilment of the move 

 ment, and, through that, of the original smell ; &quot; is 

 not,&quot; in each case meaning is &quot; not experienced as &quot; 

 such. We may take, in short, these experiences in 

 a brutely serial fashion. The smell, S, is replaced 

 (and displaced) by a felt movement, K, this is re- 



