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from the object to the exactly repeatable and therefore
seemingly permanent verbal formula. An essence, in fact,
is not part of the object but part of its definition. Also, I
believe, the well-known notions of substance and
attributable qualities can be derived from this operational
dependence upon exactly repeatable verbal descriptions
and definitions—for the very linear order in which words
have to be used results in a syntactical time order
analysis of qualities that actually are simultaneous and
so intermingled and interrelated that no quality can be
removed from one of the bundles of qualities we call
objects without changing both it and all the other
qualities. After all, a quality is only a quality of a group of
other qualities, and if you change anyone of the group
they all necessarily change. Whatever the situation may
be from the point of view of a verbalist analysis, from the