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Thus, an 'idea' is the substance of anything cognitive; but an 'Idea,' is whatever is, in itself, merely conceivable, whose being consists in capability in itself, (regardless of the limitation of our powers,) of full representation in a verbal description referring to a lettered diagram or other likeness, independently of any actuality (past, present, or future); 'actual,' as I use it, has no such reference to time; independently, too, of any active tendency. It is that which all full representations of it would have in common. I have spoken of the Reality of God: I call anything 'Real' which possesses sufficient characters, absolute or relative, to identify it, independently of whether any Man actually living or actual collection of Men in any way attributes these characters to it or not. Thus, the color green, as I see it, is Real, even if I be the only soul having my visual sensation; for it does not depend on my vision, but only on that of whoever should see as I see.

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