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At the same time, no proposition can relate,
or even consistently thoroughly pretend to relate, to any object
otherwise than as that object is represented.
These things are utterly unintelligible
as long as your thoughts are mere dreams. But as soon
as you take into account that Secondness
that jabs you perpetually in the ribs, you
become awake to their truth. Duns Scotus
and Kant are the great assertors of this
doctrine, for which Thomas Reid deserves
some credit, too. But Kant failed to work out all the
consequences of this third moment of thought and considerable retractions
are called for accordingly from some of the positions of his Transcendental Dialectic.
Nor in other respects must it be supposed that I assent to
everything either in Scotus or in Kant. We all commit our blunders.

To this first consideration, it is necessary
to add in the second place, that of the great
difference in the logical status of the
future and the past, which Aristotle