Note 18 — III

Of course, this means that what is excluded and so left behind in the problem of determination of this objective content is regarded as psychical. With reference to other problems and aims this same psychic existence is initial, not survival. Released from its prior absorption in some unanalyzed experience it gains standing and momentum on its own account; e. g., the "personal equation" represents what is eliminated from a given astronomic time-determination as being purely subjective, or "source-of-error." But it is initiatory in reference to new modes of technique, re-readings of previous data—new considerations in psychology, even new socio-ethical judgments. Moreover, it remains a fact, and even a worthful fact, as a part of one's own "inner" experience, as an immediate psychical reality. That is to say, there is a region of personal experience (mainly emotive or affectional) already recognized as a sphere of value. The "source of error" is disposed of by making it a fact of this region. The recognition of falsity does not originate the psychic (p. 38, note).