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first one “Pluit,” and the second, “Pluitur”; but I think it 
possible to find for each a somewhat better, though essentially 
equivalent interpretation. 
“Passing (from unreality) to reality” might be sensed as the 
development of a relation with reality—relation of substance 
to its attribute—and might be superseded by “becoming real.” 
But while “Pluit” may be well enough interpreted as “Pain¬ 
ing becomes real,” to interpret “Pluitur” by “Paining is be¬ 
come*.whatever you please,” embarrasses me. Indeed 
as previously intimated, I shall make but little progress in the 
study of the passive by examining forms of thought which do 
not readily find a place for a conspicuous actee. Accordingly, 
I substitute the equivalent form of thought expressed by “Pain¬ 
ing acquires reality,” in which the rather vivid figurative action 
of acquiring is attended by a subject and an object (actor and 
actee). 
The passive counterpart of “Paining acquires reality” is 
“Peality is acquired by raining.” As I do not doubt however 
that the subject in the thinking registered by “Pluitur” is 
“Paining,” in translating I must find a passive verb of which 
I may use “Paining” as the subject, while maintaining virtual 
equivalence between the passive thought to be expressed by my 
translation, and the active thought expressed by “Paining ac¬ 
quires reality.” 
Por convenience I suggest this so far unfound verb by 
“blank,” and range the outlines of expressions that I need 10 
find, with the expressions that I have already found, as follows: 
(1) Raining acquires reality; (3) Reality blanks raining; 
(2) Reality is acquired by raining; (4) Raining is blanked by reality ; 
observing first that (1), (2), (3) and (4) express the same 
phenomenon. Such being the case, whatever verbs shall take 
the places of “is blanked” and “blanks” must, roughly speak¬ 
ing, be the opposites (see p. 67) respectively of “is acquired” 
and “acquires.”f 
* I intend the “is become” as passive, quite analogous to “is occurred’*' 
or “happened” of p. 59. 
t Compare “absorbs” and “wets” etc. of p. 9-10. 
