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Qualitative Possibility, Existence, Mentality, resulting from
applying Firstness to the three categories.
We might strike new words for them: Primity, Secundity, Tertiality.

There are also three other kinds of firstness
which arise in a somewhat similar
way; namely, the idea of a simple original
quality, the idea of a quality essentially
relative, such as that of being “an inch long”; and the
idea of a quality that consists in the
way something is thought or represented,
such as the quality of being manifest.

I shall not enter into any exact analysis
of these ideas; for it would be a subject
for a long course of lectures. I only wished
to give you such slight glimpse
as I could of the sort of questions that busy the student of phenomenology,