When I say I know the effects of fear, what does that mean? Either I know it verbally, that is, intellectually, or I know it as a memory, as something that has happened in the past, and I say: ‘This did happen’. So the past tells me what the effects are. But I don’t see the effects of it at the actual moment. Therefore, it is something remembered and not real, whereas ‘knowing’ implies non-accumulative seeing—not recognition—but seeing the fact. Have I conveyed this? When I say ‘I am hungry’, is it the remembrance of having been hungry yesterday that tells me, or is it the actual fact of
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