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things.” What Shakespeare refers to in Lear as the “precious
square of sense” probably has reference to the traditional
“square of opposition” in logic and to that four-part analogy of
proportionality which is the interplay of sense and reason. But
with the isolation of the visual by this new intensity, Reason is
also
. . . isolated from exterior time, [and] it feels also equally
detached from the time of its mental life. The
modifications which happen to affect it by turns can,
indeed, in succeeding each other, give it the idea of an
interior duration. But this duration, consisting in modes
which replace one another, is by no means the duration of
the thinking being; it is solely the duration of the
successive ensemble of man’s thoughts. Separated from
the duration of things, and even from that of the modes