[BNP/E3, 15B⁴ – 26]

It is the object, as unknown, that excites our nervous system. But this is monstrous.  How can an X excite a nervous system which is a thing known?

An unknown object cannot be conceived as extended for then it would have to be reconstructed as coloured, ponderable, having form, for no sensation is worth more than another. A complete unknown thing, an absolute X cannot excite a nervous system.

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 If I allow an object to be extended and in time, I do not see why I should deny it the colour and form and perceive in it and then give some sensations more value than others. They all make the object; either all are taken away or none.  These cannot be objective and others subjective, for the simple and self-explaining fact that all are sensations.

(assignation)

Object, nervous system and subject are all upon the same plane; all are of the same kind, all are objects of knowledge, “du connaissable” as Mr. Binet says.

Charles Robert Anon