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ishing a far profounder respect for the latter science, I shall 
follow the precedent which it appears to offer, in forming my; 
interpretation of the case in hand. 
Abandoning then collective syntax, I shall took for what 
may be called individual syntax—a sentence-structure corre¬ 
sponding to the structural arrangement of thought-details. 
Be turning with this intention to my illustrative “Astronomers 
declare the sun to exceed the moon,” I am prepared to believe 
that thought expressed by the infinitive phrase is sensed pre¬ 
cisely as each member (i. e. 3:2 and 12:11) of the proportion 
3:2 : :12:11—that is, as a nucleary factor (the excess) attended 
by its fellow terms. In other words I sense the object of 
“declare,” as if the infinitive phrase were replaced by “an ex¬ 
ceeding of the moon by the sun.” That is, the object of “de¬ 
clare” is the nucleary “to exceed” alone (employed as a noun), 
the latter being, however, attended (as a verb) by what exceeds 
(“sun”) and what is exceeded (“moon”). As indicated on 
pp. 134-139, I do not regard the lateral ideas attending the ex¬ 
cess as forming part of the central thought (two-thirds of which 
is expressed by “Astronomers declare”), but only as part of 
the lateral thought, and therefore also of the centro-lateral 
thought (expressed by the entire sentence). 
This will be more easily seen, if I change the verbal order 
of the illustration, obtaining 
“Astronomers declare to exceed the sun the moon.” 
If in this expression you center your vision on the word “de¬ 
clare,” you will see the adjacent words to the left and right so 
clearly, that we are near enough to the truth in saying that 
“Astronomers declare to exceed” is in the central field of vision, 
while “sun” and “moon” are in a lateral field. 
You will however perhaps object that in actual practice “sun” 
appears before “to exceed.” But this priority, as it seems to 
me, expresses merely a choice of the lesser evil in structure- 
exhibition—a choice quite beside the question, as I will try 
to establish. 
Conceding that mental space has three dimensions—or any 
larger number preferred—it is obvious that what may be called 
expressional space has not so much as a single dimension com- 
