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(6) Its expression by a ve7°bal noun. 
To illustrate, in what is expressed by “Astronomers declare 
the sun to exceed the moon/’ a last term is required for “As¬ 
tronomers declare/’ to complete the central thought. As such 
a last term, only a single element of the lateral thought can 
operate (see pages 129; 134-139). This element plainly 
cannot he what is expressed by “sun”; for there is no declaring 
a sun exceeding the moon, or a sun toward exceeding the moon 
(compare pages 159-162). It also cannot be what is expressed 
by “moon;” for there is no declaring a moon exceeded, etc. It 
can only he the excess. 
According to this convenient view, which will he defended on 
pp. 168-184, the immediate object of “declare” is “to exceed.” 
What is expressed by “to exceed,” accordingly, alone succeeds 
in entering the central thought expressed in part by “Astron¬ 
omers declare.” By this entrance however “to exceed” does 
not- secede from fellowship with “sun” and “moon,” the three 
continuing to express a thought which, in comparison with the 
central thought, is lateral, 27 the detailed exhibition of what as¬ 
tronomers declare being ranked as an excursus, compared to 
their making a declaration (see page 134). All ideas expressed 
however are members of the total centro-lateral thought—a 
whole made such by the interlocking of the central and the lat¬ 
eral thoughts. This interlocking is effected by the factorship, 
of the singly thought excess, in central as well as in lateral 
thought. The excess accordingly, though once thought only, 
has a structural position of its own in each of the two thoughts; 
and these positions are different. In central thought the idea 
of excess enjoys a membership which entitles the corresponding 
word for it (“to exceed”) to rank as a noun. In lateral thought 
that idea has a membership which entitles that word to rank as 
271 do not, however, mean that such is of necessity the case. I 
might have said, ‘‘According to the declaration of astronomers, the 
sun exceeds the moon”, in which their declaring is lateral, and what 
they declare is central. But as I have, in the illustration actually 
adopted, begun by centralizing their declaring, I am bound to pose the 
detailed exhibition of what they declare, as relatively lateral, unless 
the extended mental landscape is to realize the impossibility of con¬ 
taining a foreground only. 
