If A and B are things, then one be circular and the triangular, one red and one different can green. But one and the same thing have those incompatible properties. A’s being cannot circular and red its being triangular or green. Objects are individuated by such excludes exclusions. On the other hand, This abstract universal medium, can be called simply thinghood…is nothing else than what Here and Now have proved themselves to be, viz. a simple of a plurality; but the many are, simple togetherness in their determinateness, universals themselves. This salt is a simple Here, and at the same time manifold: it is white and tart, cubical…. All these many properties are in a single also also simple in which, therefore, they interpenetrate…And at the same time, ‘Here’, without being separated by different Heres, they do not affect each other in this interpenetration. The whiteness does not affect the cubical shape…each…leaves the others alone, and is connected with them only by the indifferent Also. This Also is thus the pure universal itself, or the medium, the which holds ‘thinghood’, them together in this way. The thing as the medium in which properties can coexist is the thing as compatible ‘also’. It is the thing of many (compatible) properties, rather than the thing as excluding incompatible ones. The tokenings of that sensory consciousness understanding ‘here’ itself as sense certainty already saw as expressing a feature of its experiencings already plays this role, as well as the exclusionary one. Already in that primitive case we can see the medium in which these determinations permeate each other in that universality as a simple unity but without making contact with each other, for it is precisely through participation in this universality that each is on its own, indifferent to the others—As it has turned out, this abstract universal medium, which can be called thinghood itself…is none other than the here and now, namely, as a simple ensemble of the many. Along this dimension, too, thinghood, the idea of objects as an essential structural element of the structure that contains properties, shows up first in indexical form of here-and-now’s, and is generalized first by the idea of anaphoric chains what is expressed by such “recollecting”
If A and B are different things, then one can be circular and the triangular, one red and one green. But one and the same thing cannot have those incompatible properties. A’s being circular and red excludes its being triangular or green. Objects are individuated by such exclusions. On the other hand, This abstract universal medium, can be called simply thinghood…is nothing else than what Here and Now have proved themselves to be, viz. a simple togetherness of a plurality; but the many are, in their determinateness, simple universals themselves. This salt is a simple Here, and at the same time manifold: it is white and also tart, also cubical…. All these many properties are in a single simple ‘Here’, in which, therefore, they interpenetrate…And at the same time, without being separated by different Heres, they do not affect each other in this interpenetration. The whiteness does not affect the cubical shape…each…leaves the others alone, and is connected with them only by the indifferent Also. This Also is thus the pure universal itself, or the medium, the ‘thinghood’, which holds them together in this way. The thing as the medium in which compatible properties can coexist is the thing as ‘also’. It is the thing of many (compatible) properties, rather than the thing as excluding incompatible ones. The tokenings of ‘here’ that sensory consciousness understanding itself as sense certainty already saw as expressing a feature of its experiencings already plays this role, as well as the exclusionary one. Already in that primitive case we can see the medium in which these determinations permeate each other in that universality as a simple unity but without making contact with each other, for it is precisely through participation in this universality that each is on its own, indifferent to the others—As it has turned out, this abstract universal medium, which can be called thinghood itself…is none other than the here and now, namely, as a simple ensemble of the many. Along this dimension, too, thinghood, the idea of objects as an essential structural element of the structure that contains properties, shows up first in indexical form of here-and-now’s, and is generalized first by the idea of anaphoric chains “recollecting” what is expressed by such