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jeffdown1 at Nov 24, 2016 02:01 AM

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actuality. Actuality is something brute. There is no reason in it. I instanced putting your shoulder against a door and trying to force it open against and unseen, silent, and unknown resistance. We have a two sided consciousness of effort and resistance, which seems to me to come tolerably near to a pure sense of actuality. On the whole, I think we have here a mode of being of one thing which consists in how a second object is. I call that Secondness. Besides, this, there are two modes of being that I call Firstness and Thirdness. Firstness is the mode of Being which consists in its subject's being positively such as it is regardless

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