1825 March 16

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II. Fictitious entities of the second order, qualities.

To substance we ascribe qualities. To motion also we ascribe qualities. It is by this circumstance, that of motion, the import is placed, as it were, nearer to that of substance than that of qualities. Substances have their qualities, - they are large, small, long, short, thick, thin, and so forth; motions have their qualities, - they are quick, slow, rising, falling, continued, discontinued, regular, irregular, and so on.

Here then we have an additional class of fictitious entities - of fictitious substances. We have largeness, smallness, length, shortness, thickness, thinness; we have, moreover, quickness, slowness. We might have as well as rising, risingness; as well as falling, fallingness; as well as continued, continuedness; as well as discontinued, discontinuedness; we have as well as regular, regularity; as well as irregular, irregularity; attributes as well of substances as of motions.

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