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Significs & LOGIC
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involves a May-Be; 'a man' is but one man [always?]; but it may
be this, or that it may be that, it may be each in turn. To
May-be is very peculiar in implying that it implicates May-not-be. As to the
predicates that are true of can be truly predicates of that which an adjective or common noun in
the singular Denotes, or stands for, that for a direct perception of which
its utterance is intended to be a substitute, a few are predicable with a stronger
"Modality" than that of the May-be. A Man, for instance, Must be born
in full life of a Male and a Female man, and Must have a spinal column separating two bags, or
compartments, of his body; and he positively Is, (without Must-being
nor any involving of the negative of the predicate, such as characterizes mere
May-being,) markedly hairy, [may?] fully so only in parts only, and otherwise elsewhere but rudimentarily
and he Is capable of grammatical speech, Is a user of tools, etc or Is a member
of tribe that mostly possess these powers. But the vast majority of the true

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