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a verb. As accordingly centrally nonn and laterally verb, 
that word makes good its claim to rank as a verbal nonn. 
(7) Its expression by a verbal adjective . 
This, as indicated on page 145, may occur when a lateral 
first term is central last term. 
In illustration I offer a lateral thought containing ideas ex¬ 
pressed by “Catherine,” “the relation of eater to food” and 
“apples.” This thought may be expressed not only by “Cath¬ 
erine to eat apples,” but also by “Catherine eating apples,” etc., 
although with variant effects to be examined later. 
Let now this “Catherine” of lateral thought appear as also 
final term in a central thought, the centro-lateral total being 
rendered by “The doctor saw Catherine eating apples.” At 
first sight the result is disappointing; for w 7 hile the idea ex¬ 
pressed by “Catherine” is plainly enough at the same time a 
central and a lateral factor, it is not in either factorship a mid¬ 
term. The word expressing it is merely twice a noun—in 
neither factorship a verbal element—therefore not a verbal hy¬ 
brid—accordingly foreign to the present investigation. 
The resultant double factorship of a closely associated idea 
will however repay examination—a double factorship which 
in the present illustration is occasioned by the choice of “Cath¬ 
erine” to serve as central factor with “The doctor saw,” as 
may be shown to best advantage after noting what occurs when 
the choice of lateral term for central service falls upon the eat¬ 
ing, or in other words, the relation (of eater to food) -forming 
action (See pages 153, 154). 
In the latter case—that is, when that which enters central 
thought is the relation (i. e. when the eating is the object of 
“saw”)—the other lateral ideas (expressed by “Catherine” and 
“apples”) attend it without there being any need of recognizing 
further relations. Thus, in “The doctor saw Catherine eat ap¬ 
ples,” there is no occasion to anaylze Catherine’s apple-eating 
into her eating and an eating of apples—an analysis which 
would require the recognition of a relation between “Catherine” 
and “eat,” and another relation between “eat” and “apples.” 
