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is a matter of law, and law is a matter of thought and meaning.
I there leave the matter to your own reflection,
merely adding that though I have inserted the word
genuine, yet I do not really think that necessary.
I think even degenerate triadic relations involve something like thought.

The other premiss of the argument that genuine triadic relations
can never be built of dyadic relations and of reference
Qualities is easily shown. In Existential Graphs, a
spot with one tail —x represents a quality,
a spot with two tails —r— a dyadic relation.
Joining the ends of two tails is also a dyadic
relation. But you can never by such joining
make a graph with three tails. You may think
that a branching line of iden node connecting three lines of identity
Y is not a triadic idea. But analysis will
show that it is so. I see a man on Monday. On
Tuesday I see a man, and I exclaim, “Why, that is
the very man I saw on Monday.” We may say,
with sufficient accuracy, that I directly experienced

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