If, on the other hand, we clearly recognise the nature of that peculiar relation which I have called awareness of anything if we see that this is involved equally in the analysis of every experience from the merest sensation to the most developed perception or reflexion, and that this is in fact the only essential element in an experience the only thing that is both common and peculiar to all experiences the only thing which gives us reason to call any fact mental; if, further, we recognise that this awareness is and must be in all cases of such a nature that its object, when we are aware of it, is precisely what it would be, if we were not aware: then it becomes plain that the existence of a table in space is related to my experience of it in precisely the same way as the existence of my own experience is related to my experience of that.