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mean Secondness as it is an element of the occurrence,
the Firstness of it is Actuality. But actuality and existence
are words expressing the same idea in different
applications. Secondness, strictly speaking, is just
when and where it takes place, and has no other
being; and therefore different Secondnesses, strictly speaking, have
in themselves no quality in common. Accordingly
existence, or the universal Firstness of all Secondness, is really
not a quality at all. An actual dollar to your credit
in the bank does not differ in any respect from a
possible imaginary dollar. For if it did, the imaginary
dollar could be supposed imagined to be changed in that respect, so
as to agree with the actual dollar. We thus see that actuality
is not a quality, or mere mode of feeling.
Hence Hegel whose neglect of Secondness was due