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window should the air seem to me stuffy. A
collection is an abstraction, or is like an
abstraction in being an ens rationis. But
it is unlike an abstraction in that it exists.
Truth and Justice do not exist, although
they are powers. I myself, properly speaking,
do not exist. It is only a replica of me that exists,
and I exist in that replica as the effect of my being as a law.
A collection, however, exists,
and this existence is derived from the existence of
its members which may be pure Secondness.
Our bodies are of course much more than
so many collections of molecules; but as far as its
existence is concerned, the existence of our bodies
consists in the existence of the molecules.
A collection, in the sense of a gath is a subject which
is a pure Secondness without Firstness,
and whose only mode of being is whatever existence [it?] may have;
and this consists in the existence of

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