All consciousness is consciousness of something

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.