965. That there is indeed evidence . . .

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That there is indeed evidence in immediate experience of two levels of concreteness is one thing; that there is also evidence of two levels of feeling, something else.

To be sure, whenever I experience I also feel other feeling—namely, my own, as in immediately prior occasions of experience. And in this respect, clearly, feeling is present both at the level of subject and at the level of object. But I never experience only myself, in the sense of my own past feelings; I always also experience others than myself. And whether in this respect, too, feeling is feeling of feeling is just the question, for answering which, so far as I can see, appeals to immediate experience fail to provide evidence.

1 February 1998