My sorrows seem but small and brief,—
Soon softened into vague regretting;
I find a balm in every leaf,
Build ships on every wreck-strewn reef,
Then blush before this marble Grief,
Still unforgetting!
It seems to me that a true empiricist can easily note that we use thought in four distinct ways. First, thought is a term for a reflective process ; second, it is a term for data, the contentual entities which are objects of awareness; third, it is a term for the act of awareness; fourth, it is a term for an idea of an object, for the contentual thought of an object of reference, for a specific knowledge-claim.
So “paktorlogy” is the science of courtship – simple, right? https://web.archive.org/web/20160410201423/http://themiddleground.sg/2016/03/09/singweesh-22-horrigible/
although there should none of them fall by the sword , nor be saine by the soldier , yett thus beinge keepte from manurance , and theire cattle from runinge abroade