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final 2 9 but as an S which is fated or charged 

 with the sense of the possibility of a fulfilment like 

 unto 2. The S that recurs is aware of some 

 thing else which it means, which it intends to effect 

 through an operation incited by it and without 

 which its own presence is abortive, and, so to say, 

 unjustified, senseless. Now we have an experience 

 which is cognitional, not merely cognitive; which 

 is contemporaneously aware of meaning something 

 beyond itself, instead of having this meaning as 

 cribed by another at a later period. The odor 

 knows the rose; the rose is known by the odor; and 

 the import of each term is constituted by the re 

 lationship m which it stands to the other. That 

 is, the import of the smell is the indicating and 

 demanding relation which it sustains to the enjoy 

 ment of the rose as its fulfilling experience; while 

 this enjoyment is just the content or definition 

 of what the smell consciously meant, i.e., meant 

 to mean. Both the thing meaning and the thing 

 meant are elements in the same situation. Both 

 are present, but both are not present in the same 

 way. In fact, one is present as-wotf-present-in- 

 the-same-way-in-wnich-the-other-is. It is present 

 as something to be rendered present in the same 

 way through the intervention of an operation. 

 We must not balk at a purely verbal difficulty. 

 It suggests a verbal inconsistency to speak of a 

 thing present-as-absent. But all ideal contents, 



