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1908 Oct 28
Logic
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have, therefore, an indirect idea, of an idea of an idea, of
something of which both of a pair of contradictory predicates
would be true, and of which, as I have just shown you, all
predicates would be true. Such a thing, then, though it does not
exist in nature, and though nobody can definitely imagine or
conceive of it, is nameable name able, and indeed has a name, the
absurdum.
Of any two nameables whatsoever, one can could be distinguished from
the other by the circumstance that some possible predicate would
be untrue of it, that though true of the other. Consequently, the
absurdum is single. It is a sort of correlative of God, of Whom
no predicate is adequately true. Of the absurdum, which I shall
hereafter designate as Nothing (with a capitalized initial letter,)
every predicate is true. God made the world out of this Nothing.

1908 Oct 28
Logic
9

have, therefore, an indirect idea, of an idea of an idea, of
something of which both of a pair of contradictory predicates
would be true, and of which, as I have just shown you, all
predicates would be true. Such a thing, then, though it does not
exist in nature, and though nobody can definitely imagine or
conceive of it, is nameable name able, and indeed has a hame, the
absurdum.
Of any two nameables whatsoever, one can could be distinguished from
the other by the circumstance that some possible predicate would
be untrue of it, that though true of the other. Consequently, the
absurdum is single. It is a sort of correlative of God, of Whom
no predicate is adequately true. Of the absurdum, which I shall
hereafter designate as Nothing (with a capitalized initial letter,)
every predicate is true. God made the world out of this Nothing.