Color MS 464

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other things also to exist by virtue of their reactions against each other. The idea of other, of not, becomes a very pivotal thought. To this element I give the name of Secondness. But now there are elements of what is before the mind which do not depend upon others, each of them being such as it is positively, in itself, regardless of anything else. Such, for example, is the quality of purple. Contrast may cause it to strike us more; but however little it strikes us, the quality of the purple remains the same, peculiar and positive; and we can only say of it that it is such as it is. We attribute to outward things, something analogous to these our Qualities of feeling. We conceive that a hard body, that is to say a body not readily