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We then forget that the atoms too are determined arbitrarily, that is, obey social, not natural, laws. An atom would indeed never be memorized or even recognized within the concrete performances which unavoidably mix it with every kind of unintentional perceptual signal, if it did not enter into systems, where it is associated with all the other atoms that compete with it either as its possible substitutes or as its negative complements - a distribution which fully exploits the relations of contrariety organizing the first level of perceptual representation.
But there are permanent qualities which are classified as representing properties: for example, the colour of an animal's fur. 42 Certainly the melted wax is none of the things we have attained by our senses: this sweetness of honey, this fragrance offlowers,this whiteness, this shape, this sound. Rather, it is a body which a little while ago was perceptible in terms of certain modes but now is perceptible only in terms of others. , the wax itself, cannot be imagined and cannot be perceived at all except by the mind?
Hence, the objective interpretation of the representations merely expresses a subjective mechanism. While to the distinction between the processes of reinforcement and extinction there corresponds in Nature the distinction between the working of law and casual contiguity, nothing justifies our clothing substances with inhering properties and our comparing these clothes as if they were not manmade. We are entitled to award to the described perceptual organization as little objective reality as we want.