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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
that
red
is
not
positively
different
from
yellow:
is
only
another
degree
of
whatever
vibrancy
yellow
is
a
degree
of:
that
red
and
yellow
are
continuous,
or
that
they
merge
in
orange.
So
then
that,
if,
upon
the
basis
of
yellowness
and
redness,
Science
should
attempt
to
classify
all
phenomena,
including
all
red
things
as
veritable,
and
excluding
all
yellow
things
as
false
or
illusory,
the
demarcation
would
have
to
be
false
and
arbitrary,
because
things
colored
orange,
constituting
continuity,
would
belong
on
both
sides
of
the
attempted
borderline.
As
we
go
along,
we
shall
be
impressed
with
this:
That
no
basis
for
classification,
or
inclusion
and
exclusion,
more
reasonable
than
that
of
redness
and
yellowness
has
ever
been
conceived
of.
Science
has,
by
appeal
to
various
bases,
included
a
multitude
of
data.
Had
it
not
done
so,
there
would
be
nothing
with
which
to
seem
to
be.
Science
has,
by
appeal
to
various
bases,
excluded
a
multitude
of
data.
Then,
if
redness
is
continuous
with
yellowness:
if
every
basis
of
admission
is
continuous
with
every
basis
of
exclusion,
Science
must
have
excluded
some
things
that
are
continuous
with
the
accepted.
In
redness
and
yellowness,
which
merge
in
orangeness,
we
typify
all
tests,
all
standards,
all
means
of
forming
an
opinion--
Or
that
any
positive
opinion
upon
any
subject
is
illusion
built
upon
the
fallacy
that
there
are
positive
differences
to
judge
by--
That
the
quest
of
all
intellection
has
been
for
something--a
fact,
a
basis,
a
generalization,
law,
formula,
a
major
premise
that
is
positive:
that
the
best
that
has
ever
been
done
has
been
to
say
that
some
things
are
self-evident--whereas,
by
evidence
we
mean
the
support
of
something
else--
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