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In my answer what is declared is plainly “that”; and what 
is meant by “that” is plainly what was meant by “the snn to 
exceed the moon.” Of these essential synonyms it is natural to 
assume that they do not differ in syntax—that, as “that” is the 
object in the second sentence, so also in the first the object of 
“declare” is “all that follows.” 39 
The fundamental objections to this assumption have been 
sought already in the nature of linguistic thinking as examined 
under the title “Lateral Thought” (pages 134-139). At pres¬ 
ent, from the viewpoint and in the phraseology of Grammar,, 
additionally and subordinately, 
To this interpretation it may be objected: 
(a) That it hardly allows the existence of a verbal noun. 
For if in the above illustration the object of declare (1) is “all 
that follows”—if, in other words, “all that follows” constitutes 
the noun which stands as object of “declare”—plainly “to ex¬ 
ceed” is not the object of “declare” and therefore not 
in fellowship therewith itself a noun, but only a frac¬ 
tion of that object and therefore only a fraction of a noun. 
Accordingly, “to exceed,” if named according to its double 
function with “declare” and with “sun” and “moon,” can only 
be known as a verbal noun-fraction. As however the error 
committed at this point may lie in naming rather than inter¬ 
pretation, I raise the present objection solely to discredit in a 
general way the authority of Grammar, feeling that the pseudo¬ 
science here as elsewhere shows itself a guide by no means 
blindly to be followed. 
(&) That it stops half-way. To illustrate, given “I rather 
expect my brother to meet me”, if you asked me of what “my 
brother to meet me” is the object—a question which I may 
answer, as the maker of the thought expressed, with some 
authority—I answer that I mean it as the object by no means 
of a mere expecting, but of an expecting further conceived as 
39 The fact that, in well inflected languages, “the sun” and “the 
moon” would be unmistakably in the accusative case, suggesting pos¬ 
sibly that “declare” exerts an influence on case-selection—as if each one 
of the elements of “sun to exceed moon” were more or less the object of 
“declare”—I ignore as of no reliability, as indicated in the initial sec¬ 
tion of this chapter. 
