No, I don’t think he means that. Or yes, maybe he does. Or — no, he does not precisely mean that, or yes maybe he does. Or yes indeed he does — so let us read this again. Or rather, let us read, at least, the preceding section or proposition. Rehearsing this again, basic: procedes, precedes, preseeds, pressed, proceedes, processes, rehearsing this, as in “the proceeds of this function will go to the charity.” Get back to Peter, to Simon, those clear examples. Let us return to that paragraph. I see: yes of course I don’t see, but, looking at the rest of the paragraph, I do think I must revert to my former opinion, which was what again?… what, again, was my former opinion…? Now supposing I were eventually to recall my former opinion, what was I just now saying was it’s significance again…. that I should revert to it? Yes, so what was that one?
… Where was I? Oh, Peter. One’s image, one’s idea of Peter, is always with you, always present. Good. But what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the past but would be sorry to see him in the future? Or what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the morning (because he was so cheerful and happy in the morning, affording a needed boost to your own flagging spirits) but was sorry to see him at night (when he was so tired and glum, furthering worsening your mood after all the setbacks you’d experienced.) Also, what had become of Simon? There is almost nothing said of Simon. In cases, like those, I believe, one would need to drill down into all the associations the mind may have made with the idea it has of Peter, accidental or efficient causes of our pleasure or our dismay, all of them, all of them more complicated than the situation which, to this point, we’ve been looking into.
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