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consequence of which the brute forces of reactions between things will
be moulded to conformity to
the form to which the man's mind is itself moulded,
a possible idea which he sometimes does not
while the meaning of a word really lies in the way
clearly possess beforehand, while the meaning
of in which it might, in a proper position in
a proposition believed, tend to mould the conduct
of a person into conformity to that to which
it is itself moulded. Not only does will meaning
always, more or less, in the long run, mould
reactions to itself, but it is only in doing so that
its own being consists. For this reason I call
this element of the phenomenon or object of thought the element
of Thirdness. It is that which is what it is by
virtue of giving imparting a quality to reactions in the
future. There is a strong tendency in us all