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to the distinction between a graph and a graph-replica.
Your consciousness at a given moment
may be a graph-replica. But the graph
itself can never come into your mind except
by the mediation of a replica.

We can seldom find any
phenomenon in which one of the categories is so predominant
as to improve our notion of the category. One might expect to
find them illustrated by our apprehension of past, present, and
future time. But the past and present appear under aspects too
various. One might say that the past as a whole is what it is in
itself, which is a Firstness, while the present has no
other being or at least is not otherwise known to us, than
as the last bit of the past. But the whole Time rather illustrates Thirdness.
The Future, at any rate, which is able to bring about what never will be
capable of having been brought about,