"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."

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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."

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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."

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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."

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