CHAPTER IV 

 OBJECT AND LIVING ORGANISM 



THE BIOLOGICAL ELEMENTS 



The biological analysis is now finished. Through it we have / 

 become acquainted with the ultimate biological elements, the 

 qualities. We have learnt to distinguish between order- 

 qualities and content-qualities. Further, we have seen how 

 the three order-qualities — moment-signs, local signs and direc- 

 tion-signs — as soon as they combine with any of the content- 

 qualities from any particular sense-circle, become converted 

 into moments, places and direction-steps ; and these are the 

 organisers of the world. 



The content-qualities, which we call content-sensations so 

 long as they are isolated, become content-properties through 

 their association with the organisers. Unfortunately, we do 

 not have for the content-qualities designations corresponding 

 to this transformation. Blue, warm, hard, bitter, etc. — these 

 terms require the addition of " subjective " or " objective " to 

 show clearly whether we are dealing with sensations or with 

 properties. 



Finally, we know that all qualities are the material of a 

 particular form. The form of the moments is time, the form 

 of the place is the extended, the form of the direction-step is 

 motion. Motion, by means of the planes of direction, becomes 

 space, which is enclosed on all sides by the extended. 



As soon as a local sign links up with an optical content- 

 quality, it appears in space in the position determined for it by 



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