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verse of real existences. The protheton is in fact a kind of synop- 
ton, or conjoint view, of the actual effects which are at that time 
being produced and of the possible effects that might have been 
produced, within modern men’s minds, by its antitheton the onto- 
motion. It is necessary to describe it as a A¢ud of synopton, since 
the materials that come in, or could come in, from abroad are modi- 
fied by being worked up with materials contributed by the mind 
and its synergos. 
CHAPTER 15. OF THE PHENOMENON, OR PHENOMENAL THOUGHT ; 
AND OF ITS RELATION TO THE PHENOMENAL OBJECT. 
The word phenomenon has three established meanings: 1. It is 
used by metaphysicians to mean thought in the mind. This is the 
original or at least an early meaning of the term: the other mean- 
ings are of recent date. 2. It is used to mean an extraordinary 
circumstance. This is the popular acceptation of the word. 3. It 
is used to mean any natural object or event in nature. This is the 
meaning attributed to it in works on Natural Science. 
For the sake of convenience it is well to assign a name to my 
thought about an object of nature, or as it is often called a phe- 
nomenal or sensible object. My thought about it we may call the 
phenomenon, or phenomenal thought, availing ourselves of the first 
of the above meanings of this term. Accordingly the phenomenon 
within my mind at any particular time consists of all or some of 
the following: 
1. The actual perceptions which at that time the sense-com- 
pelling auto is producing in me, if there are any such per- 
ceptions existing in my mind at that time. 
2. My memory of the perceptions which that auto has on other 
occasions produced in me. 
3. My anticipation of such perceptions as I suppose it would 
produce in me under other circumstances. 
4. Certain suppositions with respect to this group of percep- 
tions. 
This phenomenon, or phenomenal thought, is itself an auto, a 
part of my group of thoughts ; while, in contrast to this, it is only 
as ahypothesis that ‘he object of this thought, the phenomenal object, 
can as a whole be regarded as in existence. Part of it no doubt 
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