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in themselves mere possibilities. Many possible things
do not exist but whatever at any time exists or is
even imagined to exist is possible. You must try to
understand, what I know is difficult to understand
without long explanations for which I have no time,
that I do not at any time in this course touch
upon metaphysics and that here at least I have
nothing to do with epistemology. I must be understood
in a purely logical sense, when I say that
qualities and relations are not creatures of the
mind, but are in themselves eternal possibilities,
whether the mind thinks them to be so or not. They
acquire existence only in the sense that they determine
existent individual subjects. One of you may say
to another “For all the lecturer says, I think qualities are