From these two immediate perceptions, we gain a mediate, or inferential perception of the relation of all four instants. This mediate perception is o… - Charles Sanders Peirce

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From these two immediate perceptions, we gain a mediate, or inferential perception of the relation of all four instants. This mediate perception is objectively, or as to the object being represented, spread over the four instants; but subjectively, or as itself the subject of duration, it is completely embraced in the second moment. (The reader will observe that I use the word instant to mean a point in time, and moment to mean an infinitesimal duration.