Crossword-Solution: ATTENUATES 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

First German edition, 1886.) William James's view was first set forth in an essay called "Does 'consciousness' exist?"* In this essay he explains how what used to be the soul has gradually been refined down to the "transcendental ego," which, he says, "attenuates itself to a thoroughly ghostly condition, being only a name for the fact that the 'content' of experience IS KNOWN.

Lastly, it is very possible that apples and dry figs exhale some such thing as this, which rarefies and attenuates the heat of the beasts; for some things have a natural tendency as well to weaken as to refresh different creatures.

Your chancellor declines on a pension; your minister attenuates on a grant; the feet of your great rogues may be gone from the treasury benches, but they have their little fingers in the treasury.

Thus, if there are tokens of divine intention (as distinguished from design) to be met with in the eye,--if it is inconceivable that so "nice and intricate a structure" should exist without intelligence as its _ultimate_ cause; then the discovery of natural selection, or of any other law, as the _manner_ in which this intelligence wrought in no wise attenuates the proof as to the fact of an intelligent cause.

Whewell greatly attenuates the opinion here quoted, reducing it to a surmise “that if we could conceive the composition of bodies distinctly, we might be able to see that it is necessary that the modes of their composition should be definite.” The passage in the text asserts that we already see, or may and ought to see, this necessity; giving as the reason, that no other mode of combination is conceivable.