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1903 · PDF PAGE 15

Berashith

13 perfect and absolute parallel in logic. Thus: let us convert twice the proposition “some books are on the table”. By negativing both terms we get “Absence-of- book is not on the table”, which is precisely my equation backwards, and a thinkable thing, To reverse. the process, what do I mean when I say “some pigs, but not the black pig, are not in the sty"? I imply that the black pig is im the sty. All I have done is to represent the conversion as a change, rather than as merely another way of expressing the same thing. And “change” is really …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 8

Berashith

…ficulty, and will discuss it in advance. If my conclusions on this point are not accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irri- table agnosticism, and look for our Messiah elsewhere. But if we can see together on this one point, I think _ things will go fairly smoothly afterwards.

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