named, is the datum, the phenomenon, or the experience.  The paper is in the mind and the mind is around the paper, because paper and mind are only two names that are given later to the one experience, when, taken in a larger world of which it forms a part, its connections are traced in different directions. [Footnote:  What is meant by this is that ’the experience’ can be referred to either of two great associative systems, that of the experiencer’s mental history, or that of the experienced facts of the world.  Of both of these systems it forms part, and may be regarded, indeed, as one of their points of intersection.  One might let a vertical line stand for the mental history; but the same object, O, appears also in the mental history of different persons, represented by the other vertical lines.  It thus ceases to be the private property of one experience, and becomes, so to speak, a shared or public thing.  We can track its outer history in this way, and represent it by the horizontal line.  (It is also known representatively at other points of the vertical lines, or intuitively there again, so that the line of its outer history would have to be looped and wandering, but I make it straight for simplicity’s sake.)] In any case, however, it is the same stuff figures in all the sets of lines.

To know immediately, then, or intuitively, is for mental content and object to be identical.  This is a very different definition from that which we gave of representative knowledge; but neither definition involves those mysterious notions of self-transcendency and presence in absence which are such essential parts of the ideas of knowledge, both of philosophers and of common men. [Footnote:  The reader will observe that the text is written from the point of view of NAIF realism or common sense, and avoids raising the idealistic controversy.]

III

Humanism and truth [Footnote:  Reprinted, with slight verbal revision, from Mind, vol. xiii, N. S., p. 457 (October, 1904).  A couple of interpolations from another article in Mind, ‘Humanism and truth once more,’ in vol. xiv, have been made.]

Receiving from the Editor of Mind an advance proof of Mr. Bradley’s article on ‘Truth and Practice,’ I understand this as a hint to me to join in the controversy over ‘Pragmatism’ which seems to have seriously begun.  As my name has been coupled with the movement, I deem it wise to take the hint, the more so as in some quarters greater credit has been given me than I deserve, and probably undeserved discredit in other quarters falls also to my lot.