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Charles Robert Anon

Psychologic automatism. Automatic motion...

Psychologic automatism. Automatic motion (sans consciousness in the whole individual) of an arm is the effect of a cause — will in the cells, molecules with which constitute that arm. (CRA).

What of double personality?

Every spiritual act has the character of absoluteness or of infinity. Thought is neither extended nor temporal. It is the sensation of that thought which is in time and in space.

To say judgement, reasoning, etc., is but the displacement of molecules is to talk nonsense. The phainomena are none the less heterogeneous, [...]

Definition of cause (Schopenhauer):

«The antecedent modification wich renders necessary the consequent modification.»

(Scholastic): «Per causarn intelligo id quo sublato tollitur effectus.» This last definition has the defect of being also applicable to the conditions of a fact (phainoumenon). Taking away space and time.

Definition: «By necessary is understood all that results from a given sufficient reason.»

«The Ego», says Taine, «is but a property common to all the phenomena of consciousness, the property that they have of appearing to us as interior, abstracted from these phenomena and transformed by words into substance.»

Is this not an argument similar to the idea — argument of Plato? C. R. A.

1906?

Textos Filosóficos . Vol. I. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968 (imp. 1993).

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