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Now I divide Cenoscopy, less as it is than as
My views of Cenoscopy are no doubt immature.
I have only been working on the problem some
forty odd years and what can be expected from an infant?
Give me a hundred years more of vigor, be it in this body you
see before you, or in that of some young man who will take up the work and find
a successor, and we shall have something better than vague guessing. The division
I guess as it ought to be, into three parts: Phaneroscopy,
Metaphysics, and Normative Science, and Metaphysics.
or Protoscopy, Deuteroscopy, and Tritoscopy.

Phaneroscopy is the description of the
phaneron; and by the phaneron I mean
the collective total of all that is in any way
or in any sense present to the mind quite
regardless of whether it corresponds to any
real thing or not. If you ask present when,
and to whose mind, I reply that I leave these
questions unanswered, never having entertained
a doubt that those features of the phaneron that
I have found in my mind are present at all times
and to all minds. So far as I have developed this
science of phaneroscopy it is occupied with the

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