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that the bulk of what is actually done consists of
Secondness,— or better, Secondness is the
predominant character of what has been done.
The immediate present, could we seize it, would have
no character but its Firstness. Not that I mean to
say that immediate consciousness (a pure fiction,
by the way), would be Firstness, but that the Quality
of what we are immediately conscious of, which is
no fiction, is Firstness. But we constantly predict