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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VII
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When we look at the coat, we do not in general say, There is a patch of Cambridge blue; what naturally occurs to us is, There is a coat.

Also the judgment that what we have seen is a garment of man's attire is a detail.

What we perceive is an object other than a mere sense-object.

It is not a mere patch of colour, but something more; and it is that something more which we judge to be a coat.

I will use the word 'coat' as the name for that crude object which is more than a patch of colour, and without any allusion to the judgments as to its usefulness as an article of attire either in the past or the future.


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