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So then: [p. 15] Dimmest of possibilities--that it may succeed. That ours is a pseudo-existence, and that all appearances in it partake of its essential fictitiousness-- But that some appearances approximate far more highly to the positive state than do others. We conceive of all "things" as occupying gradations, or steps in series between positiveness and negativeness, or realness and unrealness: that some seeming things are more nearly consistent, just, beautiful, unified, individual, harmonious, stable--than others. We are not realists. We are not idealists. We are intermediatists--that nothing is real, but that nothing is unreal: that all phenomena are approximations one way or the other between realness and unrealness. That our whole quasi-existence is an intermediate stage between positiveness and negativeness or realness and unrealness. Like purgatory, | think. But in our summing up, which was very sketchily done, we omitted to make clear that Realness is an aspect of the positive state. By Realness, | mean that which does not merge away into something else, and that which is not partly something else: that which