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not be already actualized, which may or may not ever be actualized, although we can know nothing of such possibilities so far as they are actualized.

Now for Thirdness. Five minutes of our waking life will hardly pass without our making some kind of prediction; and in the majority of cases the predictions are fulfilled in the event. Yet a prediction is essentially of a general nature, and cannot ever be completely fulfilled. To say that a prediction has a decided tendency to be fulfilled, is to say that the future events are in a measure really governed by a law. If a pair of dice turns up sixes five

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not be already actualized, which may or may not ever be actualized, although we can know nothing of such possibilities so far as they are actualized.

Now for Thirdness. Five minutes of our waking life will hardly pass without our making some kind of predication; and in the majority of cases the predictions are fulfilled in the event. Yet a prediction is essentially of a general nature, and cannot ever be completely fulfilled. To say that a prediction has a decided tendency to be fulfilled, is to say that the future events are in a measure really governed by a law. If a pair of dice turns up sixes five