Stoney — Natural Science and Ontology. 479 



existing man, in the wider ' significance of the word man — consists 

 of— 



mi I Making together his onto -brain. 



2. The synergos, ; & ° 



3. The doulos, making up the rest of his onto-body. 



His organs of sense, i. e. the onto-organs, are a part of the 

 doulos. In illustration of the use of the prefix onto, see Dia- 

 gram III. The phenomenal object which we are accustomed also to 

 call a man, is not any part of the onto-man, the really existing 

 man. It is merely a syntheton — avvQeTov, the structure resulting 

 from synthesis — of certain effects which the onto-man can, through 

 organs of sense, produce within the man's own mind or in the 

 minds of his fellow-men. See § 13, below. (Essay, p. 499.) 



7. Several of the items of the description given in the last two 

 paragraphs rest on Supposition 6, p 477. These details are not 

 essential to the argument of the Essay, but they make the argu- 

 ment more easily stated and more easily understood. 



8. The tekmeria (rt Yj" J '/p tov > a S1 g u which is at the same time 

 a proof of something), i. e. the signals or messages (§ 5) in their 

 final form as they reach the minds of modern men, are more than 

 sensations : they are perceptions, [definition] by which term 

 we are to understand sensations which appear to us to have space 

 relations to one another. They are entitled to be called tekmeria, 

 inasmuch as they are proofs to me that other operations are going 

 on in the universe beside those going on in my mind. See 

 Diagram I. (Essay, pp. 491 and 504.) 



9. The messages undergo profound change in their transit from 

 the sense-compelling auto to me, so that the tekmerion, the message 

 in the form in which it reaches me, is utterly unlike what the 

 originating auto sent abroad. A fortiori there is no trace of 

 ground for supposing it like that auto, or that a structure made by 

 compacting tekmeria together (§ 13, below) is like that auto. See 

 the warning on p. 477. (Essay, p. 499.) 



10. It is possible to trace with considerable probability, how, 

 by reason of what we inherit from our ancestors, the tekmeria have 

 come in modern human minds to be perceptions (see definition in 

 § 8) and not mere sensations. (Essay, pp. 503 and 492.) 



1 In the narrower significance of the word a man is his mind only. 



