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A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.
-George Santayana
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A Conceived Thing Is Doubly A Product

George Santayana
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.
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