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letter to sir w. hamilton.

realism, without complicating the case with the distinction of presentative and representative knowledge, a distinction which seems to me to be untenable as you put it, and which, at any rate, requires some redding up at your hands. It is also very misleading; for I believe that unwary readers of Note B may be of opinion that you advocate an immediate knowledge of external objects beyond the organism, and are thus a champion of common sense.