Continuing from Lowell Lecture 2.15, https://fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-455-456-1903-low ell-lecture-ii/display/13624
The more you scribe on the bottom of a cut, the less you assert. Thus means: It is not true that somebody returns to earth nor is it true that somebody is translated. But merely says that both are not true. That is one or [the] other is false. Either nobody returns to earth or else nobody is translated. Add to this a line of identity joining the two and still less is asserted. Either nobody is translated or if anybody is translated, that person does not return to earth. Now take this That means somebody is a prophet but nobody is translated. If we continue the outer line to the cut, it will make no difference for no significance attaches to the shape of the line. If, however, the inner line be extended to join the point on the cut, much less is asserted This means: Somebody is a prophet and this person is not translated; that is Some prophet is not translated. http://gnusystems.ca/Lowell2.htm }{ Peirce's Lowell Lectures of 1903 https://fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-455-456-1903-low ell-lecture-ii
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