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Full Idea
The possible is necessarily general…..It is only actuality, the force of existence, which bursts the fluidity of the general and produces a discrete unit.
Gist of Idea
The possible can only be general, and the force of actuality is needed to produce a particular
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]), quoted by François Recanati - Mental Files 13.1
Book Ref
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.162
A Reaction
[Papers 4 1967:147] This was quoted by Prior, and is often cited. Recanati is interested in the notion of a singular thought being tied to actuality, by generating a mental file.