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other things also to exist by virtue of their reactions
against each other. The idea of other, of not, becomes
a very pivotal thought. To this element I give the
name of Secondness. But now there are elements
of what is before the mind which do not depend
upon others, each of them being such as it is
positively, in itself, regardless of anything else.
Such, for example, is the quality of purple. Contrast
may cause it to strike us more; but however
little it strikes us, the quality of the purple remains
the same, peculiar and positive; and we can
only say of it that it is such as it is. We attribute
to outward things, something analogous to these our Qualities of
feeling. We conceive that a
hard body, that is to say a body not readily