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Logic 112

than violet?
There is no conceivable reason for ir nor compulsion in it.
Why was I born in the XIX th century on Earthrather than on Mars a thousand years ago?
Why did I today sneeze just 5 hours 43 minutes and 21 seconds after a certain man in China whistled (supposing this did happen)?
We know perhaps why a meteorite should fall to the earth if it gets in the Earth's way; but why should the arrangements of nature be such that this particular meteorite was in the Earth's way?
All these are facts which are as they are simply because they happen to be so.
We mostly neglect then; but there are cases as in qualities of feeling, self-consciousness etc in which such isolated flashes come to the front.
Originality or Firstness is another of my Categories.

Let us now take up being in futuro.
As in the other cases this is merely an avenue leading to a purer apprehension of the element it