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Excerpt from Judgment as Belief At the end of our first advance toward the realization of a belief in the existence Of external Objects present to the senses, we have the conviction that, in such and such circumstances, we should have such and such sensations. But the mind does not stop here. The sensation that, under certain conditions, I believe I may have, is an effect that owes its existence to a still more fundamental existence acting as its cause. And by association which Obtains irresistibly between cause and effect, we are carried beyond the sensations that fuse to make the rose of our ideas, to the corresponding qualities that cause these sensations, and that inhere in a single object or substratum which unites them as the mind did the several sensations, but with the result that we have a real objective rose. That this is the genesis and essence Of a sense Object, and a sufficient apology for our ardent belief in it, Mill stands ready to prove with the best of illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.