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because this system of existential graphs is not
intended to inquire into the conformity of
ideas thoughts to experiences. The universe of our
discourse is to be a universe of my imagination,
and therefore any graph which I permit to
be scribed will be true, unless it is absurd and so amounts to
telling you that my universe has no being
even in my imagination. Therefore, for
our purposes, a true graph is nothing
but a graph which will result from a
special permission to transform the
blank sheet of assertion into the sheet
with that graph scribed upon it. As for
the general alpha-permissions, they are
nothing but the definitions of the

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because this system of existential graphs is not
intended to inquire into the conformity of
thoughts to experiences. The universe of our
discourse is to be a universe of my imagination,
and therefore any graph which I permit to
be scribed will be true, unless it is absurd and so amounts to
telling you that my universe has no being
even in my imagination. Therefore, for
our purposes, a true graph is nothing
but a graph which will result from a
special permission to transform the
blank sheet of assertion into the sheet
with that graph scribed upon it. As for
the general alpha-permissions, they are
nothing but the definitions of the