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“La chambre… il n’y avait pas un coin qui fût mien ; je ne possédais même pas un pupitre pour y ranger mes affaires… Il m’étais pénible de ne jamais pouvoir m’isoler.” (p.129)

“No picture [Thoughts or ideas that is concerned about how things are arranged in the world] is true a priori.”

I truly felt vindicated when I read this. It articulated something (to the extent that I’m right in my interpretation) that I felt for sometime. Simply, we should look at the world first, then form an idea or we should revise our notions after looking at the world.