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putty-glass-air line above the putty-glass-water line
below, the putty-air-water line on the
level surface. These four lines all come together
at some even number of different points.

I will not stop to explain the metaphysical
explanation of our coming out with an even
number of points except in peculiar cases
when two of them coincide, but will merely
say that it is owing to pure space being
of the nature of a law, while a body in
space has individual existence; now existence
is an affair of Secondness, and therefore thence it
would be found, upon close minute analysis,
to be necessary that if anything exists
there should exist something else, upon which