Mere Imagination Would Indeed Be Mere Trifling;

The Percept Is The Reality. It Is Not In Propositional Form. But The Most Immediate Judgment Concerning It Is Abstract. It Is Therefore Essentially Unlike The Reality, Although It Must Be Accepted As True To That Reality. Its Truth Consists In The Fact That It Is Impossible To Correct It, And In The Fact That It Only Professes To Consider One Aspect Of The Percept.

There Never Was A Sounder Logical Maxim Of Scientific Procedure Than Ockham's Razor: Entia Non Sunt Multiplicanda Praeter Necessitatem. That Is To Say; Before You Try A Complicated Hypothesis, You Should Make Quite Sure That No Simplification Of It Will Explain The Facts Equally Well.

But The Extraordinary Insight Which Some Persons Are Able To Gain Of Others From Indications So Slight That It Is Difficult To Ascertain What They Are, Is Certainly Rendered More Comprehensible By The View Here Taken.

When An Image Is Said To Be Singular, It Is Meant That It Is Absolutely Determinate In All Respects. Every Possible Character, Or The Negative Thereof, Must Be True Of Such An Image.

Do You Call It Doubting To Write Down On A Piece Of Paper That You Doubt? If So, Doubt Has Nothing To Do With Any Serious Business. But Do Not Make Believe; If Pedantry Has Not Eaten All The Reality Out Of You, Recognize, As You Must, That There Is Much That You Do Not Doubt, In The Least. Now That Which You Do Not At All Doubt, You Must And Do Regard As Infallible, Absolute Truth.