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vividness is the force of the reaction upon
you of the object of imagination. It is of the nature
of compulsion, or Secondness. It is a character
of the consciousness as a fact. The quality
per se has no vividness nor dimness. It is not
a mode of consciousness but is a possible mode of the
object felt. Thirdness is neither consciousness
nor a possible immediate object of consciousness.
It governs consciousness. A graph,
if it were seriously meant to convey information
would be a good example of a thing of Thirdness,
because it might shape your conduct
toward a certain thing. It would thus
in regard to the thing the graph represents. The graph would thus establish a reaction
between two other things, which is the essential characteristic
of Thirdness. But I have already called attention