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sense-compelling universe, which will accordingly mean the same as 
the sense-compelling part of the universe. 
The whole universe, then, as known to man, consists of this 
sense-compelling universe and of the thoughts of men and animals. 
This division is convenient, although it is faulty from a logical 
point of view, since we shall find that the parts of which it consists 
overlap. We shall, nevertheless, make use of the distinction pro- 
visionally, for the sake of its great convenience to us, z.e., to minds 
that consist of egoistic auta when venturing upon the study of other 
autic existences. 
CHAPTER 8. OF THE COMMUNICATIONS MApDE TO ME BY THE 
SENSE-COMPELLING PART OF THE UNIVERSE. 
Now when I open my eyes or exercise any of my other senses, 
sense-compelling auta transmit messages to me through my [organs 
of sense]. These messages finally present themselves as parts of my 
mind, of my group of thoughts ; and 2” the actual form in which they 
arise within my mind I propose to call them éekmerza*—signs within 
my mind that events are happening in a part of the universe that is 
distinct from my mind. Thus, when I look towards the fire in the 
room in which I sit, the actual existence, the sense-compelling 
auto, the antitheton of the phenomenal object, which in its rela- 
tion to us it is appropriate to call the aitio-fire (ro afrov, that part 
of the entire body of causes leading up to anything to which we 
may attribute that thing), transmits one message cr signal to me 
through my [eyes], viz.: what is commonly called the visual appear- 
ance of the fire. This is one tekmerion made to be a part of my 
mind by the aitio-fire so long as it is acting upon me. When, at 
the same time, I hold out my hands, it transmits a second message 
to me, the perception of warmth, through another of [my senses]. 
And it sends another tekmerion to me, another witness that it is in 
existence and producing effects, through my [sense of hearing], 
viz.: the sound of the flame playing over the coals. 
Thus, so long as I am employing my senses upon the fire, some 
cause which is distinct from my mind, 7.e., which is not a part of my 
little group of thoughts, is in three different ways and in each of 
them a very indirect way, sending me what may be called tele- 
graphic signals; and these three tekmeria become, for the time, a 
part of that fluctuating group of thoughts which is my mind. 
1 Texufjpiov, a sign which is at the same time a proof of something. 
