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Lowell Lectures Lecture I Vol 2

"every proposition would be true if it were"
By "not hard" we mean "every proposition would be true if it were hard."
So to say that a stone is at once hard and not hard" is to say that if it is hard every proposition is true, and it is hard.
Accordingly this would be to assert that every proposition is true, - a super Hegelian position, - that direstly denies the distinction of truth + falsity, which we are fully satisfied, exists.
A little book by Lady Victoria Welby has lately appeared entitled "What is Meaning"