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be meant, as ordinarily is meant, a gath; while a gath is not
distinguished from a sam, it becomes utterly
impossible to define what is meant by a collection.

This would not be true if the two clauses of
the definition of the sam were two distinct
ideas which have to be put together; but it is
not so. Secondness involves Firstness, although
it can be discriminated from it; and consequently
the idea of the existence of that which has an essence,
which is simple Secondness, is a decidedly simpler
notion than that of existence without essence,
or a Secondness discriminated from Firstness.
For it is only by a rectification applied to the former
notion that the latter can be attained.