FOOTNOTES:
[8] This is the elucidation of the puzzling phrase, ‘the exception proves the rule,’ so often fallaciously used. It comes from the Latin schoolmen’s ‘Exceptio probat regulam,’ where the meaning is patent enough.
[9] Defence of Philosophic Doubt, p. 13.
[10] Compare Professor Royce:—‘Our intelligent ideas of things never consist of mere images of things, but always involve a consciousness of how we propose to act towards the things of which we have ideas’ (Gifford Lectures, 1900, i. 22).
[11] I exclude the possibility that ‘experience’ might be construed to mean the entire development of the mind from infancy. Such a construction would reduce the argument to insignificance all round.