| 2034
other things also to exist by virtue of their reactions
against each other. The idea of other, of not, becomes
a very pivot of thought. To this element I give the
name of Secondness. But now there are elements
of what is before the mind which do not depend
upon other, each of them being such as it is
positively, in itself, regardless of anything else.
Such for example is the quality of purple. [Gon ??]
[hast ??] may cause it to strike us more; but however
little it strikes us, the quality of the purple remains
the same, peculiar and positive; and we can
only say of it that it is such as it is. We attribute
something analogous to theseour Qualities of
feeling [A ??] outward things. We conceive that a
hard body, that is to say a body not readily
| 2034
other things also to exist by virtue of their reactions
against each other. The idea of other, of not, becomes
a very pivot of thought. To this element I give the
name of Secondness. But now there are elements
of what is before the mind which do not depend
upon other, each of them being such as it is
positively, in itself, regardless of anything else.
Such for example is the quality of purple. [Gon ??]
[hast ??] may cause it to strike us more; but however
little it strikes us, the quality of the purple remains
the same, peculiar and positive; and we can
only say of it that it is such as it is. We attribute
something analogous to theseour Qualities of
feeling [A ??] outward things. We conceive that a
hard body, that is to say a body not readily
|