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1908 Oct 28
Logic
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Can we not, upon this basis, come forthwith to a common opinion
about a certain subject that, strange to say, is much disputed?
I mean the three questions, if they be not substantially identical,
What is knowledge, what is truth, and what is reality? That is,
What do we mean by these and cognate expressions?

Is there not a noun in our language which names that
of which everything that could possibly be said of it, every
predicate, as grammarians say, is equally true? If there
be not such a noun permit me at on the spot to fabricate
one. You will, I am sure, admit the following two truisms:
first, that for every predicate there is a possible directly
contradictory predicate; thus, to "is divisible by two without
remainder," there is "is odd in number;" and to "is middling,"