..."presence in absence," one that at a minimum must be known as a kind of "pointing."52 In 1894 he writes: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...context, or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers.53 James's overt interest in offering this analysis is to set aside the mysterious renderings...

...those of nearly all the epistemological writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...procession of mental associates and motor consequences that fol"'Extracts from a presidential address before the American Psychological Association, published...