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is ipso facto an important thing, an important element in the happenings of these events. This mode of being which consists, mind my word if you if please, the mode of being which consists in the the fact that future facts of Secondness will take on a determinate general character, I call Thirdness.

Now Lecture III, Vol 1 p 56
to p 70 in Vol 2.

Next define the sign and the three trichotomies.

The peculiarity of gamma graphs is that they make abstractions, or mere possibilities as well as laws the subjects of discourse.

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I have been in the habit of defining an abstraction or ens rations as something whose being consists in the truth of a proposition concerning something else. The definition is not exact; but it will answer tolerably (? our purposes)
The proposition is that some description of things is possible, this is a roundabout way of describing Firstness. If If the proposition is that something always will be, it describes a Thirdness.

Now the Subject of a proposition is necessarily an individual or in relative (? propositions) a set of

(Note: insertion in to the next page of the manuscript)

I have been in the habit of defining an abstraction or ens rations as something whose being consists in the truth of a proposition concerning something else. The definition is not exact; but it will answer tolerably (? our purposes)
The proposition is that some description of things is possible, this is a roundabout way of describing Firstness. If If the proposition is that something always will be, it describes a Thirdness.