444 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters* 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE JTJBHMJEET IETEEjEOGATIVE AS TO BELIEF. 
Part of the reasoning which I bring to hear upon the inter¬ 
rogative problem;, in the aspect now to be; considered, is so close 
a duplicate of that already followed in preceding chapters, that 
it need not he repeated. The remainder may he introduced hy 
the illustration: a Are you coming?—because I have to make 
my plans accordingly.” 
Assuming my interpretation of these words to he that of 
everyone, I note that what, follows the: question “Are you com¬ 
ing ?”—namely my necessary planning, or my need of planning 
—is the cause, as seen hy me, of whatever I mean by “Are you 
coming?” Accordingly, to find out what my need (in my 
opinion) causes, is to find out more or less completely what is 
meant hy “Are you coming ?” 
Examining the: words of this question, if I give: them only the 
meanings which they have in extra-interrogative usage, I obtain 
at the most a conception (which may he expressed hy “your com¬ 
ing”) plus, it may be, a personal conviction of its truth; hut 
this conviction, in the present case, is plainly not intended. Let 
it therefore he excluded. What is left—that is, “Your coming” 
—is obviously by no means what my need of planning causes. 
Accordingly I have not thus far discovered what my need of 
planning causes. 
That miy need however causes something, must be regarded as 
my own opinion, since I use the word “because.” Moreover I 
am sure' I know right well just what, as seen hy me, it causes— 
namely, a desire to' know whether you will come or not. Which 
one of the two you do, is comparatively unimportant, provided 
only that I know which one it is going to be. How this I hope 
to know as the result of information to he given hy you. Think¬ 
ing dominantly then of your primary informing, rather than of 
my own thereby to he developed secondary knowing, I experi¬ 
ence my desire: as a desire that you tell me something—some- 
