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[Our thoughts are some of these antitheta, the rest of them may he spoken of 

 as " unconscious cerebration," meaning by unconscious, not falling within our 

 consciousness.] 



Diacrinomenal nature) Nature and the objects of Nature regarded as 

 Diacrinomenal object j consisting exclusively of motions (see pp. 508 

 and 509). 



Doulos. For definition see p. 478. 



Ego. Tor definition see p. 476. 



Egoistic For definition see p. 489. 



Hypothesis, the act of treating a supposed thing as an existing thing for 

 some useful purpose. 



Hypotheton, the thing which is in this way supposed to exist. 



I. For definition see p. 476. 



Instinct {instinctive). [When the materials which come in through the 

 senses are dealt with by the synergos, and appear in the mind with alterations 

 and additions made by the synergos, these alterations and additions are said to 

 be instinctive. The most conspicuous of these instincts are our judgments 

 about space relations.] 



Legitimate. For definition see foot-note, p. 501. 



Mind. For definition see pp. 476 and 489. 



Noiimenal. For definition see pp. 481 and 515. 



Object {objective). For definition see § 11, p. 480, and p. 501; and for 

 the contrast in which objective existence stands to autic existence see § 1 2, 

 p. 480. 



Onto, used as a prefix (see Diagram III., p. 486). 



Perceptions. For definition see p. 492 (see also under tekmerion below). 



Phenomenal Nature 1 



, , , the totality of phenomenal objects. 



Phenomenal object. For definition see p. 498. 



Phenomenon, the thought in my mind about the phenomenal object 

 (see p. 500). 



Physical cause. {Dynamical cause.) See above, under cause. 

 Potential. See above under actual. 



Protheton. See above under antitheton. [The relation of a protheton to 

 its antitheton is a perfectly definite one. The antitheton is either an auto or 

 an event in the sense-compelling universe, the protheton is the object or event 

 in Nature derived from it by the two following steps : — 1°, the synthesis of the 

 first order which transforms the sensations produced by the antitheton and 

 other materials into perceptions ; 2°, the further synthesis of the second order 

 which combines the perceptions into a phenomenal object.] 



