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Thought, that is, must be of the nature of Thought
or of a Sign. Every Thought is a Sign. But
in the First Degree of Degeneracy the Thirdness
affects the Object, so that this is not
of the nature of a Thirdness,— not so, at least,
as far as this Operation of Degenerate Thirdness
is concerned. It is that the Third brings about
a Secondness but does not regard that
Secondness as anything more than a Fact.
In short it is the Operation of executing an
Intention. In the last degree of degeneracy
of Thirdness, there is Thought, but no conveyance
or embodiment of thought at all. It
is merely that a Fact of which there must
be, I suppose, something like knowledge