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But such absolutely not-familiar notions we never find in practice; the new-born child only has to meet with notions of which it knows as yet nothing at all—or in other words, of which neither the color, shape, hardness, or any other property or circumstance ever met its senses before.
The number of degrees and shades of familiarity is infinite, taking, however, extremes we shall have two classes, viz.—
| 1. Familiar notions, |
| 2. Not-familiar notions. |
For a standard of extreme familiarity I will take the notion table. Those notions that are very far less familiar than table, I will call not-familiar notions.
As a symbol for familiar notions in general, I will employ 
As a symbol for not-familiar notions in general, I will employ 
REMEMBERING, RECOLLECTING.
What people call remembering or recollecting, is nothing but the springing up of notions before the mind, which are exactly similar to those that did stand before the same mind on some former occasion; e. g.—
