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And there is an eternal continuum of qualitative possibilities (Peirce's "multitude beyond all multitude"), out of which fully definite single qualities emerge, or are created, in their appropriate cosmic epochs.

Wiki MarkupPeirce's view that "the eternal is a continuum of possibilities, a 'multitude beyond all multitude,' lacking, as eternal, in definiteness," implies both that "possibilities are determinables\[,\] not determinates" and that "determinables are not classes of determinates, but aspects of creativity relevant to such classes, so far as the latter are given." "Given a determinate how\[,\] we can relate it to the \ [_sc._ indeterminate but determinable\] somehow, but given only the somehow we cannot relate it to a determinate how."

The region of possibility to which a particular event can be related, or which we say it actualizes, never implies just this determinate mode of actualization. In fact, this determinate mode is not even one of the antecedent possibilities, which as such are determinables, not determinates or classes thereof, so that any determinate mode as such must be a creation out of them, or a further particularization of them.

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