The _vividness_ of the feeling-tone is likewise a relatively
independent phenomenon, and it, too, is not commensurate with the
vividness of the sensation as such, and hence demands a different
explanation. It can then be dependent upon the _actual stage in the
process of completing the movements suggested_ by the color or tone
or form in question. All feelings dealt with in this investigation
one can describe by relating them to the actual stage in the process
of completing the _coördinated adjustments_. Without some progress
in such a process no feeling would cross the threshold of awareness.
In Part III above are recorded many illustrations, where _degrees of
vividness_ for feelings are noted by the subjects. When they were
attempting to report the actual time when a feeling became definite
enough to be called such at all, there was much difficulty in knowing
just when to give the signal. Feelings develop much more slowly than
do perceptions. Subjects often give the signal too soon, at once
correcting themselves by saying that it was too vague at that moment.
It grows in definiteness, and has degrees of vividness. A movement
in the first stages of the process, before the feeling-tone has
sufficiently developed, is a state of vague feeling. Again, many states
of so-called indifferent feeling meant, according to the subjects,
not lack of feeling, but rather vagueness, lack of vividness. Three
or more stimulations from different sources resulted in confusion
where no feelings were vivid. When the color again, for example, is
pronounced "dead" so far as feeling is concerned, other feelings and
other movements are too prominent. The sensations are in such cases
unchanged. The intensity and vividness of the feeling-tone for the
color are at a minimum.
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