 Although in this case, the subject and predicate fuse so quickly and imperceptibly as to be indistinguishable, yet it provides the template of the conscious separation of subject and predicate, and hence of logical judgments proper. To wit: if and when the fusion is somehow hampered or delayed, then its beginning, middle, and end are able to “have their say” (SW VI: 126).  Specifically, at first the newly arrived representation (i.e., the sensation) of the subject subsists alone in consciousness. As it starts to sink, the representation of the predicate rises, exerting an influence—partly inhibiting, partly promoting—on the representational sequences extending out from the subject as they strive to evolve. “The copula appears in the middle as the expression of that change in disposition which takes place in the fusion” of the subject and predicate (SW VI: 126).[64]