You seem to deny the
existence of something;
on the
other hand you say you don't deny
the || any existence: why should it
seem as if you
did? You seem to say: ‘there is
only …’ You deny, it
seems, the backgroun
d of the expression of
sensations. Doesn't the
expression point to something beyond itself? –
If we see the feeling as a background to the
expression then we can always assume that we are wrong in
thinking that this background doesn't change; we can
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assume that our memory at
each instant cheats us & that we use the
expression bona fide to express something
different each time. So that one might say: it
doesn't matter
what is behind the expression so
long as it is a bona fide expression of it.