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11. Definition. — An object is a supposed non-egoistic existence. 

 The supposition, being a thought in the mind, is an auto — one of 

 the egoistic class of auta ; but the object of that thought has not 

 necessarily an autic existence. It is, in fact, an hypotheton. 

 (Essay, pp. 497 and 498.) 



12. Accordingly objective existence is to be carefully dis- 

 tinguished from autic existence. Objective existence is hypo- 

 thetical, and is usually not autic (or real) existence. It will be 

 autic only under the very exceptional circumstance that the 

 hypothesis made has been the true theory of existence. (Essay, 

 p. 506.) 



13. The phenomenal objects which seem to us to be situated 

 about in space are in reality syntheta of perceptions, i. e. of the 

 tekmeria or messages sent to us by sense-compelling auta. Of the 

 perceptions which are built together to form a phenomenal object, 

 those only exist at any one time which we experience at that time, 

 and even they have an egoistic, not the supposed non-egoistic, exist- 

 ence ; the rest are potential, that is, they are not then in existence, 

 but will come into egoistic existence if certain conditions are ful- 

 filled. (Essay, p. 498.) 



All these perceptions, whenever they arise, are additions made 

 to my mind by the sense-compelling part of the universe. The 

 supposition that the syntheton formed by putting them together 

 has a non-egoistic existence is only a hypothesis, most useful to 

 me, and therefore legitimate as an hypothesis, but not to be mis- 

 taken for a part of the true theory of existence. (Essay, p. 499.) 



14. Definition. — Mature is the totality of phenomenal objects. 

 (Essay, p. 501.) 



15. Definition. — The phenomenon is man's thought about 

 the phenomenal object. (Essay, p. 500.) Accordingly it is an auto ; 

 it exists, but only while we are thinking about the phenomenal 

 object. It is transitory, imperfect, and fluctuating, whereas — 



16. The phenomenal object, though only an hypotheton, is 

 perfectly definite and has in it nothing unstable or arbitrary, 

 including, as it must, all the tekmeria which a certain part of the 

 sense-compelling universe does or can legitimately produce in 

 human minds through human senses. (Essay, p. 501.) 



17. In the sense of being derived by this definite process from 

 what is in actual existence in the sense- compelling part of the 



