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Quality of immediate consciousness.

But it must be admitted that a Feeling experienced in an outward
sensation may be reproduced in memory. For to deny this would be
idle nonsense. For instance, you experience, let us say, a certain color-
sensation due to red-lead, it has a definite hue, luminosity,
and chroma. These three elements,— which are not separate in the Feeling,
it is true, and are not, therefore, in the Feeling at all, but are said to be
in it, as a way of expressing the results which would follow, according
to the principles of chromatics, from certain experiments with a
color-disk, color-box, or other similar apparatus. In that sense, the
color-sensation which you derive from looking at the red-lead has
a certain hue, luminosity, and chroma which completely define the
quality of the color. The vividness, however, is independent of

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