Note 208 — Chapter XVII
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Cf. p. 50, n. It is sufficiently clear, I trust, that this argument is concerned with the relativity of knowledge, and not with the relativity of value. We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass. And even knowledge is relative only when it is "Knowledge-about." Cf. James, Principles of Psychology, vol. i, p. 221, and The Meaning of Truth, p. 4, n.