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of certain other existents, or pure Seconds,
called its members. Thus, the gath
of human beings at this moment in
Boston, consists in the existence of this
man and that man. No matter how
those men might be transformed, no matter
if some of them were to leave Boston,
that same gath exists, although it would cease to be the gath of the inhabitants of Boston.
But were a single
member of the collection to cease to
exist, that gath would no longer exist. There
would still be a gath of inhabitants
of Boston but it would be a different
gath. The description, ‘All the inhabitants of Boston’
describes a gath. But as time goes on
it will describe a different gath.