

THE EXPERIMENTAL THEORY 



link, or real adjustment of the thing meaning and 

 the thing meant. Generalizing from the instance, 

 we get the following definition : An experience is a 

 knowledge, if in its quale there is an experienced 

 distinction and connection of two elements of the 

 following sort: one means or intends the presence 

 of the other in the same fashion m which itself is 

 already present, while the other is that which, while 

 not present in the same fashion, must become so 

 present if the meaning or intention of its com 

 panion or yoke-fellow is to be fulfilled through the 

 operation it sets up. 



II 



We now return briefly to the question of knowl 

 edge as acquaintance, and at greater length to 

 that of knowledge as assurance, or as fulfilment 

 which confirms and validates. With the recurrence 

 of the odor as meaning something beyond itself, 

 there is apprehension, knowledge that. One may 

 now say I know what a rose smells like; or I know 

 what this smell is like ; I am acquainted with the 

 rose s agreeable odor. In short, on the basis of a 

 present quality, the odor anticipates and forestalls 

 some further trait. 



We have also the conditions of knowledge of the 

 confirmation and refutation type. In the working 

 out of the situation just described, in the trans- 



