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entheses what' seems to me to represent the central thought—- 
that is, all words to “collision” included. If now a total ex¬ 
tended thought is to he formed, including this central thought 
and the unfolded trio, this last must be in relation with an ele¬ 
ment of the central thought (see page 126) and doubtless in the 
relation of identity—or, say, equivalence—with the blended 
whole expressed by “collision.” How, as what expresses (1) 
the blended whole, (2) the trio of unfolded terms, and (3) the 
relation between these two, impresses me as plainly lateral, I 
put it in brackets, which include “collision” and all remaining 
expressional elements. Accordingly, 
f passenger - 
(I saw a [collision) — ] strike 
[ freight 
This diagram expresses now three thoughts, the portion in 
brackets exhibiting equivalence between a blended whole and 
an unfolded trio, which latter is itself a thought. There re¬ 
mains accordingly the difficulty of using this (trio) thought as 
the final term of bracketed thought—a difficulty which a later 
section will endeavor to solve. Meantime, supposing this dif¬ 
ficulty overcome, it is clear, as the diagram suggests, that 
neither the lateral trio nor any element thereof has entered the 
central thought parenthesized. 
To make my reasoning conclusive, I must give it general 
value. Accordingly, whatever be conceived as possibly pro¬ 
dromic to the unfolded trio—be it a blended whole, or a med¬ 
ley of unorganized details, 23 or a so-called conjunction or 
sentence-article (e. g. “that”) 24 or the speaker’s promise or in¬ 
junction, or the hearer’s expectation, or the mental void-to- 
be-filled or reservation of mental space in the mind of either, 
or mode as distinguished from entity, or the shadow cast before 
by a coming mental image, or a grin et preterea nihil, precur¬ 
sory to a Cheshire cat—whatever, I say, be conceived as the 
23 Any introduction of such into central thought might rank with 
such a moving of my house (?) as should consist in tearing it down 
and hauling the materials to the dumping ground. 
24 This word may rather rank as the sign of an empty category later 
to be filled. 
