17

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false. Thus, that which the cut asserts is
precisely that that which is on its bottom
is not, as a whole, true.

This agrees with the fact that if there
is nothing on the bottom except the inner
cut, its patch may be asserted. Thus

since a blank merely asserts known truth
means, "if the truth is true then a pear is
ripe," or it is not false that a pear is ripe.
So in the following

or if it rains, then if it blows, a pear is
ripe. The two cuts with nothing between
can be taken away without altering the