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I will begin with one of the gamma cuts.
I call it the broken cut. I scribe
it thus

[diagram "it rains" in broken cut]

This does not assert that it does not rain.
It only asserts that the alpha and beta
rules do not compel me to admit that
it rains, or what comes to the same thing,
a person altogether ignorant except that
he was well versed in logic so far as it
is embodied in the alpha and
beta parts of existential graphs, would
not know that it rained.

The rules of this cut are very similar to