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In the mailing of this essay I used some fancy characters which displayed as intended in my web browser (Windows 10 + Chrome) and my email client (Thunderbird) but not in some other browsers and email clients. I can't change the emails that were sent, but I have changed these characters on the website (into a bold uppercase T and a bold italic uppercase V which ought to display equally in all web browsers).

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The so called “objective” world is not only constituted by that which is being particularly indicated (and even less so, becomes into being by that which is being indicated) or by the determination of a single outcome out of many contradictory possibilities, as Kant understood reality, but by an asymptotic line that is the “limit” of all potential acts. We need to go one level up, so to speak. The actuality of the material world is in this sense entirely expressive. It is the unifying outcome of the act underlying all acts. What Kant conceived as objective is only objective thought, which is barely one approach to that line.

“An objective object may be thought to change according to the act, but at the same time red must retain its self-identity as red. When an object that does not change according to the act is thought of as an object of a given act, it is thought of as ‘simply objective’ from the standpoint of another [mental] act. That which we usually think of as objective is the objective world of mere thinking, while, on the contrary, the world of objective objects that continue through the changes of acts becomes the world of expression as the objective world of the act underlying all acts.” (NK)

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