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1908 Nov 9
Logic
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I. Why, you were quite right as to my being aware that what I saw was that Etna of which I had heard so much. For it was only
by such signs as our having been steaming due east or a little north
of that since we had pass Taenarium that I know we must by that time
have got about to where Etna would be visible in the west, and so that
that that obtuse isosceles triangle I saw must be Etna, which
without such signs I should not have known. Nevertheless, it remains
true that I was directly aware of some object, and equally so that
that object of which I was directly aware was Etna; and that would
have been true if I had been quite ignorant of geography. In that sense
I was directly aware of Etna, that is, of what really was Etna.

You. It is not a very correct form of expression.

I. Your criticism is very hard steel tempered to straw-color and

1908 Nov 9
Logic
16

I. Why, you were quite right as to my being aware that what I saw was that Etna of which I had heard so much. For it was only
by such signs as our having been steaming due east or a little north
of that since we had pass Taenarium that I know we must by that time
have got about to where Etna would be visible in the west, and so that
that that obtuse isosceles triangle I saw must be Etna, which
without such signs I should not have known. Nevertheless, it remains
true that I was directly aware of some object, and equally so that
that object of which I was directly aware was Etna; and that would
have been true if I had been quite ignorant of geography. In that sense
I was directly aware of Etna, that is, of what really was Etna.

You. It is not a very correct form of expression.

I. Your criticism is very hard steel tempered to straw-color and