ften do we think of the thing in algebra?
| When we use the symbol of multiplication we do not
| even think out the conception of multiplication, we think
| merely of the laws of that symbol, which coincide with the
| laws of the conception, and what is more to the purpose,
| coincide with the laws of multiplication in the object.
| Now, I ask, how is it that anything can be done with
| a symbol, without reflecting upon the conception,
| much less imagining the object that belongs to it?
| It is simply beca