Part of the appeal of nonconceptualism as a view in its own right is that it seems to do better justice than conceptualism to what we might call the primitive character of perception relative to thought and judgment.

He observed his companion place his hand in one of the beds which trembled, and look inspectingly around.

If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.

Some of the waitresses disappeared, others stood against the bar talking to the nonbuying customers.